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Worst blog post ever? Or worst blog ever?

I used to think of lazy bloggers as being the bottom feeders of the web. (You know, people who blog about absolutely nothing and then end the post with, "Thoughts?" or "Discuss!" in some weird bid to get an actual conversation going.) But this one takes the cake. In a post to the...

Posted to SuperSite Blog (Weblog) by pthurrott on 07-09-2009
Mozilla puts Safari's '11 million downloads' in perspective

LOL. As if it weren’t bad enough that Apple was force feeding Safari 4 to its customers and then gloating about the number of downloads it achieved, we have this bit of news from Mozilla’s Asa Dotzler, which really puts that figure in perspective. I just read that Apple is reporting 11 million Safari...

Posted to SuperSite Blog (Weblog) by pthurrott on 06-15-2009
WWDC 2009: Time for a reality check

Apple is providing its WWDC 2009 keynote address today, providing some interesting info about its Mac and iPhone platforms. But this is Apple we're talking about. So it's time for a reality check. 75 million Mac OS X users. Apple claimed that the OS X user base magically jumped from 25 million...

Posted to SuperSite Blog (Weblog) by pthurrott on 06-08-2009
The magic of wishful thinking ... This time in the Apple camp

Recent reports of a magic IE 8 performance boost make me smile because this kind of thing is simply human. We all see what we want to see, what we expect to see. It's just part of our DNA. It explains UFO and Bigfoot sightings. And, apparently, it explains Apple fanatics. Because these guys believe...

Posted to SuperSite Blog (Weblog) by pthurrott on 05-06-2009

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Worst blog post ever? Or worst blog ever?

Mozilla puts Safari's '11 million downloads' in perspective

WWDC 2009: Time for a reality check

The magic of wishful thinking ... This time in the Apple camp