Say a prayer for Angel Babcock, the miracle 2-year-old who was found 10 miles from her home and now clings to life after a tornado killed her family.
This is insane. The tornado carried this poor child TEN MILES ACROSS FIELDS. We’re crossing our tumblr fingers for this one.
Nuff said…No auto-tune boys and girls. This is why she was a badass.
Whitney Houston’s isolated vocal track on “How Will I Know.”
“In the next six months we plan to market a tablet of the highest quality.”
That was Google Chairman Eric Schmidt speaking to reporters in Italy yesterday.
For those keeping score at home, that’s now three major things Schmidt has promised in the next 6 months.
At LeWeb a couple weeks ago, he promised that third-party developers would start writing the best apps for Android first instead of iOS in 6 months.
Later at the same conference, he said that “the majority” all televisions in stores in 6 months would run Google TV.
Now Google’s “iPad killer” is coming in 6 months.
It’s either going to be an extremely busy June for Google — or an extremely busy June for Google’s PR department when Google fulfills none of Schmidt’s promises.
Submitted by Anna C:
Pete tends to chew only the most expensive shades he can grab around the house so that he can then pose for pictures looking so trendy. It really looks like he does it on purpose. Our folder “Pete in Shades” increases monthly. But with this cute face, what can one do other than laugh? I guess that´s why he keeps chewing sunglasses.
EXCLUSIVE! JESUS CHRIST WALKING DOWN WILSHIRE, TALKING ON CELL PHONE! (I.swear.to.God.)
Wilshire Blvd. & Robertson. 11:59 a.m. Friday, October 28, 2011.
Photo by steve craig.
Client: “I don’t like that button, it sorta sticks out…”
Me: “Yeah, it’s supposed to do that.”
Client: “It doesn’t look like the rest of the website. It doesn’t blend in with the colours, y’know.”
Me: “It’s a Call To Action—we want people to notice it, and click it.”
Client: “Well, I don’t like it. I don’t want stuff that sticks out.”
Me: “Doorknobs stick out, and people use ‘em.”
Client: “You callin’ me a knob?”
This is, quite simply, one of the worst pieces I’ve ever read on Apple.
Zach Epstein starts off trashing Apple’s iPhone 4S announcement as perhaps “the beginning of the end” — and does so citing a bunch of analysts.
Analysts.
As anyone who watches Apple closely knows, analysts are absolutely fucktarded when it comes to Apple. If you bet directly against what they’ve said about the company over the years, you’d be a very rich person. They’re always wrong. And it’s clear that the vast majority of them do not understand the company.
Of course, posts citing analysts about Apple are nothing new. Some writers keep going back to the well despite getting diarrhea of the mind over and over again from what they drink there. It’s fascinating to watch.
But what makes this post particularly bad is the way Epstein pussyfoots around the position he sets out to take. The entire end of his post is basically “don’t get me wrong, I think the iPhone 4S is great but…”
So he loves the device, but analysts don’t, therefore it’s the end of Apple? Right.
He also cites the seemingly tepid reaction from the crowd during the event itself. I’ve been to pretty much every single Apple event over the past five years. This is the reaction about half of the time.
Rumors leading up to these event often set the stage for things that simply aren’t coming. This leads some to be disappointed — a natural reaction. It’s only when Apple is able to truly surprise people — like with the iPhone — that everyone is wowed. Even the initial iPad announcement was dubbed “underwhelming”.
If you judge Apple’s products by the reaction of analysts and the press, you’re an idiot. Pure and simple. Apple doesn’t make products for analysts and the press. They make products for everyone.
