Archive for the 'Spot the Idiot' Category

Spot the Idiot: BusinessWeek’s Roger L. Kay

Thursday, March 20th, 2008, by moose

Apple’s Icarus Effect:
But now Apple is becoming a victim of its own success, and the irony is just too great to miss. Anyone with a mild sense of history is keeping track. The main reason Apple had been left alone by hackers was not by virtue of any superior security technology, the company’s protestations to [...]

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Spot the Idiot: the TSA

Monday, March 10th, 2008, by moose

Michael Nygard gets stopped by TSA agents trying to catch a flight with his MacBook Air in his bag:
I’m standing, watching my laptop on the table, listening to security clucking just behind me. “There’s no drive,” one says. “And no ports on the back. It has a couple of lines where the drive should be,” [...]

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Spot the Idiot: Steve Ballmer on the iPhone AppStore

Friday, March 7th, 2008, by moose

Ballmer dubious about Silverlight for iPhone:

He said he was concerned about Apple’s plan, unveiled Thursday, to let developers sell applications for the iPhone on iTunes and take a 30% cut of revenues. Ballmer suggested that Apple might charge Microsoft similarly to get Silverlight on the iPhone, though there is so far no evidence to support [...]

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