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Wired: Apple is Evil/Genius

Wired Magazine's Leander Kahney has a cover story on Apple ("How Apple Got Everything Right By Doing Everything Wrong" Issue 16.04 ) that's worth a read. Overall it's pretty well balanced and fair and has just enough edgy snarkiness to keep you reading. Kahney takes Apple to...

Tags: Wired Inc., Apple Inc., Wired Magazine, Kahney, Recruitment & Selection, Apple Mac OS X, Human Resources, Workforce Management, Operating Systems, Software, Apple Mac OS, Jason D. O\'Grady

Blog posts 2008-03-25

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Is Apple good or evil?

There has been a lot of talk lately about how is Apple becoming more like Microsoft and turning evil, but is it really the case? Personally I've known that Apple was evil since they tried to litigate me out of business and subpoena three years worth of my email, but...

Tags: Apple Inc., Public Relations, Web Browsers, Digital Music, Digital Media, Marketing, Corporate Communications, Internet, Personal Technology, Consumer Electronics, Jason D. O\'Grady

Blog posts 2008-03-27

Kahney: "Safari sucks"

Kahney: "Safari sucks"RE: Don't use itI disagree. While Safari isn't the be-all-end-all browser out there, it's no where near as bad as it's been made out to be. Leander Kahney saying it "buggy," "unreliable" and "crashes all the time"? Sorry, but maybe Cult-of-Mac needs to clean his Mac. Yes, Safari...

Tags: Web browsers, Microsoft Windows, Digital music, Digital media, Apple Safari, Apple Inc., Web browser

Discussion threads 2007-06-13

Kahney: "Safari sucks"

This morning I wondered if I'd been a little harsh on Apple's latest attempt to "Wow!" Windows users over to Mac.  After all, Safari is just in beta and we should all be kind to projects in beta.  But when I discovered that Leander Kahney of the Cult of Macintosh had...

Tags: Apple

Blog posts 2007-06-13

Is Jobs planning a hostile takeover of the Windows desktop?

Let’s just get this out of the way right at the start: Steve Jobs is a genius and rarely makes stupid decisions. If you accept that statement as gospel, then you have to assume that Jobs has a brilliant master plan behind yesterday’s announcement that Apple’s Safari browser would be...

Tags: Uncategorized

Blog posts 2007-06-12

Asteroid, a plant?

In a column for Wired.com Leander Kahney writes about the possibility that Apple creates false products to test the loyalty of their employees. The practice, sometimes called a "canary trap" involves seeding small groups of employees false information about a non-existent product to see who "sings." For his story Leander...

Tags: Legal, Rumor

Blog posts 2007-03-08

Apple takes back the copycat title

Apparently, every copy of Mac OS X comes with a Cognitive Dissonance add-in. This feature allows Mac cultists to loudly accuse Microsoft of ripping off features when it's convenient, and to blindly miss the ripoffs that go the other way.Case in point: Yesterday's far-from-earthshattering Apple announcements.Over at the Cult of...

Tags: iTV, Media Center PC

Blog posts 2006-09-13

Explaining the 'Cult of Mac'

Author discusses the extremities of Mac-faithful behavior'The Cult of Mac' author Leander Kahney joins CNET News.com's Amanda Termen to discuss the emergence of the infamous "Mac faithful" and the lengths so-called Macheads have gone to in order to protect the name of Apple Computer.

Tags: Apple Macintosh, Cult

Videos 2006-03-30