Been to a Disney Store mall location lately? Seems they have not been pulling their weight, so they have turned to a familiar source for inspiration. You’ll see Apple Store touches like “cast members” wielding mobile checkout scanners, too. If Mickey and Minnie get their own Genius Bar, well, so be it.
Dear David Coursey of PC World magazine: Which part of “We are aware of the issue, which occurs only in extremely rare cases, and we are working on a fix” do you not understand? And why do we need to tell more than one outlet when you’re all just going to link to the original anyway? Isn’t that what this whole new media revolution all about?
See, the fact is, Borg loving shills like PC World’s David Coursey will make a big deal out of anything. Now the problem is that we were too slow in acknowledging some bug in Snow Leopard that isn’t even a bug at all — it’s an anomaly. There’s a difference. You can look it up.
It’s this whole thing about Snow Leopard eating people’s data, which I can tell you is not actually happening. Ever. Not to a single person. Hasn’t happened. Any statement to the contrary is simply not true. It’s based on false information.
Nevertheless, Coursey can’t resist taking a snarky little swipe at us:
I wonder why it takes so much media coverage (and embarrassment?) to get Apple to own up to a problem. And when it does respond, why just to one news organization? Actually, I know: It is just the customer-friendly Apple way.
Daniel Eran Dilger has been dispatched, with instructions to gut Coursey like a fish.
Give the troops at Yahoo! credit. They’re rolling out their new ad campaign and asking you to channel your inner yodel. They’ve taken over London’s Covent Garden and New York’s Times Square today with Mumbai to follow on Wednesday, and they’d love for you to record your very own yodel, just like Wylie Gustafson back in the day. Um, make that, “day!”
Definitely a Windows user, right? Or maybe Linux.
Much love to Matt G. for sending this in.
They just ran this photo, with the headline, Danger, Will Robinson! Do Not Approach the SideKick, and a brief post (sourced from this CNET article) saying the Borg has pulled the SideKick off the market for the time being. We really don’t care about the SideKick. We just wanted to run this photo. Nice work, John Paczkowski.
There’s this little movie studio created by Dear Leader called Pixar. Have you heard of it? Well, they have a solid track record, and they have another movie in the works. The first two did pretty well.
Google Suggest is a handy little thing. You know, where you type what you want, and it then fills in the blank because it thinks it knows what you’re looking for. As you can see, sometimes it takes a left turn on you. Unless you really do want to know why a dead Pakistani is on your couch, of course. Apologies to Garry Trudeau for stealing the title of this post.
Compelling video from Business Insider. Zuckerborg talks to Henry Blodget. Blodget asks Zuck why he insists on remaining CEO of Facebook, and Zuck has a great answer.
Little hint: It’s, like, his company? And also, because, um, he’s like, he’s got these like mad communication skillz?
Crappy ad for Mercedes interrupts — but then you get to the good stuff.
