Comments on: Lance Ulanoff and Robbie Bach explain why library size doesn’t matter for WiMo apps vs the iPhone

By: Strand Consult: Denmark’s illegitimate iPhone-angry pundit-nutter — RoughlyDrafted Magazine

Wed, 16 Dec 2009 08:07:56 +0000

[...] Lance Ulanoff and Robbie Bach explain why library size doesn’t matter for WiMo apps vs the iPhone Microsoft sells restrictive new WiMo Marketplace via iPhone ads [...]

By: harrywolf

harrywolf — Fri, 16 Oct 2009 16:29:46 +0000

An article that is well-written, entertaining, intelligent, logical and informative may say anything it likes, in as many words as it wishes – thats why Splashmans crit. doesnt stand up, and why Daniel E. Dilger is a very cool writer.

A good article can commit the same sins as its target and make them virtues, and D.E.D. does just that.

Its not Math, Splashman, its literature, sort of. Poetic license and all that.
Although you are ‘correct’, you are not amusing or interesting – its a bit like reading earnest feminist essays from 1985.

However, you fight well – so kudos to you, friend.

By: FreeRange

FreeRange — Fri, 16 Oct 2009 05:49:44 +0000

@splashman – we get it we get it! how many times and how many different ways do you need to say it… oops, isn’t that part of what you are criticizing – please give it a rest…

By: KenC

KenC — Fri, 16 Oct 2009 05:24:24 +0000

I think Daniel was saying that Ulanoff used alot of words to make just one point. I’m quite sure Daniel used alot more words, but made quite a few more points.

By: lowededwookie

lowededwookie — Fri, 16 Oct 2009 01:23:29 +0000

Actually I don’t think linking to an article is necessarily a good thing. It only serves to feed the idiots instead of letting them go hungry and die.

By: enzos

enzos — Thu, 15 Oct 2009 23:20:14 +0000

Netiquette schemetiquette, sentences like..

They sound like Jack Black in Envy pitching Pocket Flan as a convenient tube-based solution to the many problems of eating cornflakes when skydiving.

shows that the author has an acute visual sense of humor.. and that’s a treasure!

Dan: I took as a self-deprecating irony that you did a word count on whatsisname’s article. Am I wrong?

By: Splashman

Splashman — Thu, 15 Oct 2009 22:25:15 +0000

Ah. “Netiquette for thee but not for me.” Thanks for clearing that up.

By: gus2000

gus2000 — Thu, 15 Oct 2009 22:17:17 +0000

It is proper netiquette to link to the source of your creative inspirations or factual sources. If you cite something to bolster your argument, link to it.

The same does not apply when deconstructing a link-baited and shill-encrusted regurgitation of a press release. If you link to such garbage, you are “Feeding the Troll”.

By: Tom Reestman

Tom Reestman — Thu, 15 Oct 2009 22:10:34 +0000

TheMacAdvocate nailed it.

Splashman,

I think your criticism was misplaced, and missed the point of Daniel’s comment. His point was NOT that 1,000-word posts are “bad”, or even that Ulanoff wrote one. Rather, he simply observed that Ulanoff used a lot of words to make a very bad argument that ultimately just parroted Microsoft’s own talking points.

With that observation in mind, there’s no incongruity with Daniel’s article being longer; the word count itself was not the point.

By: gus2000

gus2000 — Thu, 15 Oct 2009 22:08:33 +0000

OH HAI

NO TIME TO REED, CAN U JUST TELL MEH ABOUT TEH IMPOURTENT PARTZ?

KTHXBYE