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Technology Journalism Style Guide: Two Terms to Avoid

One of the recurring themes here at TMA is that most tech writing on the Tubes today sucks.  Badly.  The 2 major shitty writing contingents are: analysts who don’t know their industry and bloggers pretending to be industry insiders who don’t know their industry. Present company excluded‚ of course. One of the most telltale signs [...]

1 Million iPhone 3GSs – Exactly what Analysts…oh…

The Street once again undershot a number related to the performance of an Apple product‚ this time it was the number of iPhone 3GSs that would be sold over this past weekend.  Depending on who you were‚ you were either in the “right section‚ wrong aisle” or “does your head being up there affect acoustics?” [...]

Scott Moritz: GTFO

Scott Moritz is one of Jim Cramer’s merry band of stock manipulators over at TheStreet.com.   Either that or he’s really‚ really bad at his job – especially when it comes to Apple. I actually think sound investment advice would be “Do the opposite of what this toolbox says”. Scott’s latest gem, available in both [...]

Douchebag’s Row: My Tribute to Tech’s Finest

Apple is a company that brings out the worst in some people.  Whether they be fanboy-bashers or CEOs of bloated software juggernauts, there’s something about Steve’s condescending little smirk that drives people absolutely batshit.  I get it.  I really do.  For most of these individuals, the knowledge that I work with a superior OS is [...]

Brian “Apple is living in denial” Caufield provides indisputable evidence of Apple netbook

Poor Brian Caufield over at Forbes really wants a Mac Netbook.  Trouble is‚ instead of crapping in a bag and putting out a POS that will compete with the offerings from Dell‚ Asus et. al‚ Apple insists on making it’s money by margin and not by volume.  “The computer- and gizmo-maker fiddles with its Mac [...]