August 2008
9 posts
Crap Store Redux
Can someone tell me why there are 45 tip calculators on the App Store? Forty-five. I can understand 10 or so. Before the App Store launched nobody knew what anyone else was making, so with something as basic and common as a tip calculator, there’s bound to be some overlap, but it has been three weeks now, and every single day I see another fucking tip calculator get added to the App...
July 2008
9 posts
WatchFont Conference. I can’t tell what’s worse, how nerdy it is, or that I understood all of it.
Watching the Growth of Walmart Across America →
Ugh, it’s like a virus.
McCain again cites current events in... →
Ah yes, good ol’ Czechoslovakia. If only it hadn’t dissolved into two separate countries a decade and a half ago.
Crap Store
First off, apologies to Mike Lee for the essentially identical post title, but the play on words is too good and too obvious to pass up.
So, as you are no doubt aware, the iPhone 3G came out a few days ago, and with it the much-anticipated App Store. Accessible through iTunes, it is a centralized place to find applications for your iPhone or (gasp) iPod touch. The idea of aggregating all the...
AT&T’s Text Messages Cost $1,310 per Megabyte →
It’s not always obivous when a company — or in this case many companies, namely all of them — are screwing you, but I think this makes it quite clear.