Puerile
Let's make an app that posts your poo to Apple HQ
Can we build an app that automatically delivers large quantities of human excrement to Apple's doorstep? That is the question frothing on fanbois' lips as we enter another Comment of the Week. On last week's exclusive announcement of the new “bump to dump” app Ploppr, silver-badged reader Pen-y-gors opened the batting with an …
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Sunday 26th October 2014 14:55 GMT Anonymous Coward
My first Wooden Twig of Fail
Such a proud moment. Sniff. Right up there with the births of my children.
And thank you fanbois nation for this amazing shiny trophy. I couldn't do what I do without your wonderful, predictable downvotes and rant responses anytime I compare Torvalds to Saint Jobs. I'm going to keep my Wooden Twig trophy on my mantel - right next to the iPod Nano with the cracked screen and the download of the entire "Eat to the Beat" album by Blondie.
(BTW - I did get 17 upvotes, so I beat the Ploppr "bump to dump" commenter 8.5 to 1).
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Sunday 26th October 2014 18:24 GMT Anonymous Coward
Re: My first Wooden Twig of Fail
Amazingly it does have a weird glow - like a twig that fell out of a Unicorn's magical ass. Remarkable really. And it dances quite nicely to Blondie's "Atomic".
I'm going to reproduce it, call it the "iTwig", and sell it for $1,399 each. The 32GB version will cost $1,799, and will have a thumb-sensor and NFC for easy pay-bonk.
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Sunday 26th October 2014 21:39 GMT Anonymous Coward
Congrats Andy. The shills fell into line beautifully with your well crafted call to arms from three branches of the buggers.
I think we can do better though. Just need an article that draws in iShills and DroidShills, winds up Windows lovers, Penguins and more iShills. Sprinkle audio buffery and perhaps an editor conflict. Oh and for top marks a script language willy waving contest. Now offend the whole bloody lot with only mild swearing and gentle arguement.
Whoever pulls that off will truly shine in these hallowed halls and they shall have the entire tree.
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Monday 27th October 2014 14:33 GMT John Savard
In the Hands of the People
Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak created the Apple II, which was more expensive than, say, a Commodore 64 - although, to be fair, the Apple II came out earlier than that one. But there were many 8-bit micros intended for the home consumer; the Apple II did compare favorably with the Commodore PET and the TRS-80 in a number of respects, but its difficult to claim that it was all that revolutionary.
While much of what was innovative about the Lisa and the Macintosh must be credited to Xerox, the Macintosh did bring the GUI out of the laboratory and make it available to the public. If not for the Macintosh, there would have been no Windows 3.1.
That's what Apple deserves credit for, and the usefulness of Linux doesn't detract from that.
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Monday 3rd November 2014 01:48 GMT Grikath
Re: In the Hands of the People
"If not for the Macintosh, there would have been no Windows 3.1."
Until you realise that a large and increasing number of games already worked through a GUI.. It was only a matter of time before a shell like that would be developed for the DOS/x86 platform, simply because a growing number of people were already familiar with it, and it simply...worked.. as far as user-interaction was concerned.
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Biting the hand that feeds IT
