Tick-Tock, Tick-Tock

November 8

Best Buy is carrying Apple products again - less than a year of being dropped by Steve Jobs and the "we're too good for retail" distribution reduction plan. Of course, it's only for the consumer computer computer from Apple - the iMac. The funny thing is that they're selling the iMac for more than 100 bucks over the price on Apple's own website. Not exactly a "best buy" by a longshot. However, with every purchase - you get a printer and coupons for 80 bucks of Best Buy computer merchandise. It's not a windfall for Apple buyers though, since Best Buy is a barren desert for Mac software, and their periperhals don't work with Apple products - and the iMac is the only Apple product on the shelf. I guess it's not a bad deal for Wintel users though. They can pick up any unusable vouchers from iMac buyers to get stuff for their systems. In other retail news, Apple is attempting to spurr consumer interrest in the iMac off the flatline status to get them moving off the over-burended shelves, which by ZDnet estimates, are still filled with over 600,000 unsold computers. The latest incarnation is the loan program which allows 29 dollar a month payments until you die - much like any other consumer loan program that puts high interrest on high-tech computers. I don't know about you, but ever since I paid off Apple products that cost more than 2 grand, I've been paying cash for all new tech since. And with ThinkPads, and Wintel's in general going for around a grand - there's no point going into hock to get a fashionably floppyless computer when there's cheaper and more cost effective fish in the sea.

November 9
CNN drops a bombshell for the popular press that has been overlooking ZDnet and Cnet's evaluations of Steve Jobs' testimony as to the "PII crushing speed" of the iMac and actually tells the rest of the American public the ugly truth that the geek & techie set already knows. Steve Jobs is either "over-emphasising" the outdated misattributed benchmarks from a "so reputable of a publication, we're dead" Bytemagazine - or is lying out the ass. Guess who has the hemmoroids from this expose? Susan J. Silvius makes careful note of Microsoft Excel, Internet Explorer and Photoshop tests and then let's it be known that people should take Apple's hype with a boulder-ton of salt in the mighty and oft-used words by the ADC. "Think Again". Kudos to small literary irony - but of course I can already make another prediction aside from Apple's demise. I see....I see....a screwball rabble of morons in love with their computers - last name Marines - sending a shitload of supperflouis e-mail to a CNN reporter. I see.....I see..... tons of CNN people confused by tacky e-mail coming in from people who need to get laid, get a life, or both.

November 10

CompUSA takes a serious revenue hit with earnings down 65%. No data was attributed to any platform in particular - but that won't stop me some doing some speculation on what happened this quarter that didn't happen in the other quarters for CompUSA. Lessie - did they stop selling Wintels? No. Hmmm was it an inventory bloat hit? Perhaps. Did they carry iMac for the first recorded quarter giving up valuable shelf and warehouse space to computers that 95% of the general public doesn't buy? Yep! In fact, I wouldn't be suprised if Apple's "retail love child" doesn't just abort what would be otherwise a take no prisoners, record busting holiday season of silicon consumerism. Suffice it to say - that with each location reporting dozens of machines returned that they can't send back to Apple, there's going to be more in the loss column for CompUSA as a significant portion of their iMac inventory makes it way to the nearest landfill after showing up on customers doorsteps DOA. Good luck CompUSA.

November 11

For those who have been wondering how the new BBBS and chat area is going - it's been great. Mostly because the lowest common denominator has been raised even beyond the classic BBBS' cadre of bullshitters. Why? Because me and several other founders (like RealCable who provided the ADC with GodPrivs) can not only gong idiotic posts - we can prevent the same users from returning with wholesale bans. Who deserves to be banned for life? Well, any idiot who goes into foolbaiting and personal attacks for one - as well as repetitious arguments for two. Both made their appearance in the form of several of the MacMarines who thought they could weather the storm of otherwise sane opinion (both Pro PC and Pro Mac) and create a ground for fertile and juvinile retribution for being loosers of the highest degree. Loosers that can't shut down a non-Geocities website for instance. What made such petty bullshit interresting was that one of the members - claiming to be a 30 plus year adult (rather than what this site suspects as being a 16 year old pubecent pimple popper) - believed that yours truly was pretending to be most - if not all of the posters in the ADC Yahoo BBBS - as well as ALL of the Apple parody pundits hiding in the financial area of Apple's Yahoo financial message boards. This is rich folks (to coin a phrase). First, I can say upfront that I haven't the time - nor the interrest - to hang in the other message areas outside of my own (classic now deactivated) BBBS because I have things like a girlfriend, friends, side businesses, a job, and other things resembling a life. Second - I don't go for spoofing. IE: pretending to be who I'm not. It's not without irony that even Mackido misrepresented this fact by assuming mgabrys is some kind of fucked up pseudoname in their wonderful review of this site about a year ago. People - it's right in the resume this site is linked to. Montgomery Gabrys - what a fucking incorragable pseudoname "m""gabrys" must fucking be for the mentally challenged Apple fanboy set. Whoop de shit! Third I don't for "kewl-beenie" handles that keep "secret" who the hell I am. I'm sorry if I have too many balls for this overused practice. In any case, this pube-run-amok was not only banned from the chat area - but suggested that the entire Apple anti-fan briggade is run by yours truly. I don't know whether to pitty such nuttiness or take it as a compliment. Either way - feel free to join the fun (plug plug) because such idiots are not only lacking from the status quo - they're hunted into oblivion.

November 12

David Pogue blows brain cells and meaningless words at MacWorld magazine as he harps on an unnamed "educational CDrom" that he had to do "registry rewrites" and other boogyman Wintel functions to get to work on his Wintel. Considering that I've used a Wintel since 1996, I must admit that I don't share his short fuse experience with Wintel software. First - borrowing some conclusions from the new BBBS - why on EARTH would an idiot buy something that mandates he turn his finely running Wintel system files into sushi? Jeezus - I didn't have to do this shit when loading stuff into my Thinkpad for nearly 3 years. What kind of shithole product did this bozo buy? Second he goes on to argue that the Mac portion of the product didn't require him to bend over backwards to install. Suffice it to say - with many games and products that I purchased for my own (now departed) Macs asking me to turn off networking, and several extensions - I've had less problems installing software with installation wizards and install-shields than any Mac app that was newer than anything since 1993. This leads me to the conclusion that some of the editors at MacWorld may either be utter morons - or are just fueling the myth-fires for the Apple giggle set that takes some comfort in the idea that Wintels are balls to the wall harder to do anything on than they are on Mac machines. After all - it's this sole remaining myth that validates the whole idea that they're akin to expensive cars - or something equally assinine. At the same time it provides sauce for the goose when the MacJihad accuse any magazine showing Apple products in a less-than-idea light as somehow biased. Certianly none of their publications would be putting themselves into this ethical quandry would they? Nahhh.

November 13

Eric Yang of MacWeek.com blows an equal number of gaskets and braincells biting the editorial hands that feed him. Thowing career and caution to the wind, he contradicts and debates the merits of ZDnet's numbers for the amount of iMac's sold to the general public chalking up devations to offshore sales and the like. I almost believed the guy until he admonished Apple from any instances of "channel loading" and the like which has been duley noted in reports from Apple no-nothings like Gil Amelio and the like. After all - why would Apple be guilty of channel loading retail groups and ignoring sales numbers from TRST when they're own ex-CEO witnessed such doings less than a year ago? Well the new Apple can do no wrong - and according to MacWeek.com's revisionist historical logic - the old Apple did no wrong either. Suffice it to say that it put's their 1 billion dollar plus quarterly loss statements into the mystery column. Because if they couldn't make a total cock-up in the present, and couldn't do the same cock-up in the past - then why did they loose all that maketshare and revenue in the first place? Perhaps it was just a giant investment scam for the shareholders or something? Maybe Apple was attempting to wrangle the largest tax-break for a company by posting wholsale slaughter losses for the IRS? Somehow I doubt it. Perhaps the truth lies in the fact that even the techie press when their back is against the wall, isn't below stooping to a little spin control for the benefit of objectivity. Puullleeeze!

November 14

As if Mackido could get any fucking wierder - they go crazy 8 bonkers on behalf of the pop-press who have been making note of thier warlike god Jihads twords any critique of Apple computer - something this site has been doing for weeks on end. In a senseless display of non-ego, they make note that it's "the media's fault" for giving rise to the masses of asses who would sacrafice having a real life for the ideal of sancatifying a hunk of plastic and silicon worse than anyone who would defend a throw-away television from the prying sledgehammers of the Plasmatics. Two things stick out in all this. First, anything Apple has to worry about comes from the barrel of the gun aimed at their own foot. Second, the same justification and rationalizations for bizzare behavoir twords critical literature, often came from the own mouths of those that supported the assasination of the writer of the satanic verses. After all - it's the authors' own goddamn (to coin a phrase) fault for riling the masses in the search for journalistic truth. And by god-gum there's going to be hell to pay for such insolance. It just goes to show that the truth sometimes hurts - and those responsible for pushing edicts of spam are justified as being called the MacJihad. God bless and drive safely.