Stories are doing the rounds about a “spate of suicides” at Foxconn, a factory that supplies Apple and various other technology vendors. Most of them editorialise about the terrible labour practices going on at the Chinese company. The reality is that Foxconn workers are much happier than the rest of us. Here’s my ITWeb column on the subject, in which I challenge Reuters and the Associated Press to do the arithmetic.
Should have guessed, really. It’s not like Google does anything on our side of the network. The long-awaited Gphone is not a device, but another open application platform. Hot on the heels of the OpenSocial announcement, it has launched Android, backed by the Open Handset Alliance. This group includes big Windows Mobile customers, such as HTC, whereas Google’s strategy is to provide access to information independent of device or platform.
Here’s an explanation:
Sheesh, I’ve seen the dot com bubble come and go, but I’m starting to buy the company’s valuation. After all, it’s P:EG ratio is only 1.33, and that makes the share a buy…
Update: The original video, which had been linked to from Google’s official blog, was removed by the user and replaced with the one you see now.
He might be crazy, period, but this fellow rants pretty eloquently about his dislike for the iPhone, its creator, its marketing, its fans and its features. Very funny (if a little crass). Nokia should send him a sales bonus.
Duncan McLeod, the sod, got his sticky fingers all over an iPhone. Yup. In South Africa. It didn’t work, of course, and the kind man from Apple wasn’t about to demonstrate how to hack it, but a broken iPhone is better than no iPhone, I guess. On the other hand, there’s something deeply disturbing about all this drooling.
What is it about overhyped product launches - such as that of the Apple iPhone - that brings out the rage and anger in people? That divides consumers into opposing camps of sycophantic fanboys and sneering cynics?
The iPhone sucks. Much like Paris Hilton. I haven’t had the dubious pleasure of experiencing either hands-on, if you’ll excuse the phrase, but this is just a first impression, since I won’t even see an iPhone until next year in my neck of the jungle. Admittedly, that is sooner than I’m likely to see Paris Hilton over here. Too soon in either case, I’m sure.
But I felt left out. The tag clouds lacked a silver lining. So since everyone is raging and screaming and sweating and cheering and panting and scooping and huffing, I thought I’d join in the fun. Can’t wait for Microsoft’s on-time, on-message response: the Phune! It will likely be available in monkey-shit brown and vomit green. Then we can do this again. Thank you for taking time out of your busy Sunday to participate in this experiment. I’m afraid I’m not giving away a free iPhone. If you want to win an iPhone, you’ll have to go somewhere else.
But I can reward you with a free lolcatz picture, if you want:
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