I’m usually impressed, but this one was scathing. In his response to the fact that the iPhone made it onto the list of PC World’s 15 Biggest Tech Disappointments of 2007, the Macalope pulled no punches. First, the obvious:
If that’s a tech disappointment, the Macalope hopes 2008 brings Apple a slew of similar disappointments. It’ll be a banner year.
But then it got better:
“I think the biggest debacle of 2007 is the iPhone pricing bait and switch,” says Peggy Watt, a PC World contributing editor and professor of journalism at Western Washington University.
Wow! That’s some statement! Which is to say, that’s some absurd statement with little to no basis in fact!
First of all, Peggy, a bait and switch is when you get someone in the door by telling them the price will be lower than it is, not higher than it one day will be. Or you tell them they’ll be getting a “professor of journalism” and then just give them an assistant professor of journalism instead. That’s a bait and switch.
Yeah. He did. Holy crap, hahaha.