APPEL SUCS!!11 PEECEZ REWL!11

While on vacation, desperate to suckle from the Internet’s great digital teat, I find myself reduced to using an AOL dialup.

In case you didn’t know, dialup sucks.

With my meager trickle of Netmilk, I have been able to read a few interesting articles. One that stands out is this week’s Apple-bashing article, as published by Wired.

This article is pure feces. Even better, a lot of tech news sites pounced on it, brandishing it as ‘reel nooze’.

I wonder if they realize that it’s a slow news week, and Wired is fabricating stories again? I mean, here’s the gist of this ‘news story’:

Small third-party developer spends some time learning how undocumented and unstabilized Apple APIs work, and writes an app that centers on these APIs.

Apple releases a new version of their OS that includes new versions of those APIs. Since the APIs are not documented and are not stabilized, they have changed.

Third party developer’s app breaks.

TPD cries “APPLE ROBBED ME! MY BABIES WILL STARVE! DAMN THE MAN!”

Wired journalist is pushed for a deadline. “Oh crap, I’ve snorted too much coke to think! Must fake a story!”

Wired journalist sees TPD’s rant on some message board, and writes “APPLE ROBBED HIM! HIS BABIES WILL STARVE! DAMN THE MAN!”

And all the moron PC trolls who’ve never touched an Apple read the headline of the Wired article [or better, the headline of the Slashdot post about the Wired article], and they rant, “APPEL SUKCS!111 APELS ARE FRO LUSARS!!11 APLE ROBED TAHT MAN!!! HIS BABEIES WILL STARVE!! DAMN TEH MAN!!!!11”