You know it ’s a pretty big week when the Macalope only gives passing mention to another record quarter for Apple . ( SEEN IT . BOR - ING ! ) Unless you decided to have a trivial “ me ” metre in the sensory - neediness tank , you in all likelihood heard that an Apple employee lost an iPhone paradigm in a bar . The twist was sold to Gizmodo ( motto : “ We ’re going through your underwear drawer right now ! ” ) , who eventually returned it to Apple — but not after leaving a thick covering of slime all over it . This may seem like a strange time to interview strict certificate requirements for wandering devices , but one initiate arrest it .
Let it never be said I didn’t do the least that I could do
There are several galling part to this wanting iPhone story . One is Gizmodo ’s “ nobody did anything wrong ! ” posture . The 2nd is the deportment of the mortal who took the headphone .
Any reasonable mortal would have , as John Gruber notes , given the phone to the barkeep . You lose something at a bar , you call the bar the next twenty-four hours to see if they found it . That ’s how it works . Only a tug circumvents this basic formula of life by taking it home , fiddling with it for days , and then selling it .
Sure , he did makesomekind of sweat to return the earpiece by holler the Apple front desk . But , not surprisingly , there ’s no turn to press for “ crazy guy who says he ’s got an iPhone image . ” possibly Apple should have taken his call more seriously , but when the finder / thief did n’t get a reaction there was still one sure - flaming direction to get the society ’s aid . One method acting that would have issue through all the red magnetic tape and gotten an immediate reaction . One whichmore and more people are using every day .
E - mail Steve Jobs .
Just snap a picture of it and shoot it off to the mankind himself . That for certain would have bring .
presume the sight of black chopper does n’t trouble you .
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What lessons can we take away from this?
You ’d think most of the obvious ones would have to do with California body politic statute against purchasing slip property . That is unless you’reJenna Wortham ofThe New York Times , who think this is a sign that Apple ’s “ spell ” is “ wearing off . ”
The whipping is arguably one of the most jaw - dropping flubs for Apple , a ship’s company long acknowledge for maintaining an impenetrable veil of secrecy .
Shockingly , Apple is made up of “ humans ” who have flaw ! Who knew ? !
But perhaps what is surprising is the consummate delight and occasional oil of vitriol permeating the reactions around the Web .
Are you new on the Internet or something , Jenna ? If you want to see some anti - Apple vituperation , the Macalope could send you some CompuServe meeting place thread from 1994 that rick ugly faster than you could say “ Godwin ’s Law . ”
So , what ’s the evidence for this supposed sea change ? scuttlebutt on blog posts and Facebook , of line .
The near - empty-headed reply to Apple ’s trip may point to a broader shift in the public posture toward the society and its covert tactic .
At what distributor point do we just burn modern news media to the ground and set out all over ?
Good pundit! GOOD PUNDIT!
You fuck , the Macalope expend a pile of clock time smacking down silly pundits and he really give them a hard time sometimes . He feel just awful about it .
Ha - ha ! No he does n’t . He love it . It ’s what he was wear to do . So much so there may be something ill-timed with him ( apart from the antlers and the head shaped like a Greco-Roman Mac ) .
But sometimes these guy cable overcome bad genes , a misfortunate upbringing , the high lead subject in the imbibition water at ZDNet , or whatever it is that ’s affecting them , and actually get something right . Take Galen Gruman , for example .
Just three weeks ago the Macalope included Gruman in hislist of April Fools . In that short duo of clock time Galen has managed to fulfill an incredible feat andturn his spirit around .
On the Page of InfoWorld , Gruman askswhy corporate IT shops and analyst obtain roving gimmick like the iPad and the iPhone to standards they do n’t apply to other machine .
I ascertain it quite ironic that with all the hyperventilation around wandering security , which is disproportionately focused on the iPhone ( no doubt there ’s some proxy Apple - bashing exit on there ) , you do n’t take heed literary criticism of IBM for not embedding Mobile River - oriented security into its Lotus Domino and Lotus Notes waiter chopine , nor of Novell for not implant mobile - orientate surety into its GroupWise electronic mail weapons platform .
Galen ! Have you been working out ? You lookterrific .
So the next sentence you ’re tempted to raise the surety slogan when someone wants to work in an iPhone or Droid , necessitate yourself if you ’re not deem those devices to a different criterion than you do your laptops and PC — and why that ’s the grammatical case .
The Macalope said pretty muchthe same thingabout the iPhone two and a one-half years ago .
It ’s not so much that the iPhone is n’t ready for the enterprise , it ’s that the enterprise is n’t ready for the iPhone .
Despite his non - standard visual aspect , the Macalope knows a thing or two about corporate IT and he can speak from experience : very little of it makes any sense . You know what they say about taste to learn a hog to dance , right ? It blow your time and makes the Sus scrofa follow through a Microsoft - only corporate standard for enterprise - level computer software rescue only on Dell hardware .
Or something like that .
