Steve Jobs reportedly goes ballistic over troll tweet

Added 2010-02-08, 03:09 PM | 14 Replies

"This tweet sent from an iPad. Does it look cool?"

That's all it took for Steve Jobs to reportedly snap and tear into The Wall Street Journal's online executive editor at a recent iPad "show-and-tell" outing for the media industry.

The tweet was quickly deleted, and Alan Murray, the Journal editor in question, declined to comment beyond saying that he "would love to talk about this, but can't."

This is profound. Why is nobody scrutinizing this? Apple has effectively censored the editor of a major news operation.

It's no secret that Apple and Steve Jobs in particular are paranoid over any news coverage of their company, adverse or otherwise, so it's unfortunate that the conflict of interest issues surrounding the iPad aren't being examined more in-depth.

Jobs' apparently successful tantrum is an occurrence that should give pause to news organizations considering support of a proprietary news-reading device made by the very same company that will stop at nothing to censor them.

After all, if Apple controlled the news, we would likely never have known about the plights of children scarred for life by their exploding iPods. Or the circumstances surrounding the tragic death of Chinese iPhone engineer Sun Dan-yong.

Jobs reportedly "(painted) a utopian picture of (a) happy future world awash in iPads". If freedom of the press counts for anything any more, let's hope the only place awash with iPads is the landfill.

Mac Pro performs best running Windows 7

Tip by Anonymous | Added 2010-02-03, 07:55 PM | 22 Replies

Mac OS X, the supposed most advanced operating system in the world, fell flat on its face yet again as it was revealed that severe driver issues are causing a 20% drop in performance when audio is used on Apple's most expensive workstations.

Even more telling is the fact that there's no performance hit when the system is running Windows 7, proving that Apple obviously had better things to design when it came time to write the system drivers for the $2,500+ computer's motherboard:

"Strangely, booting affected Mac Pros into Windows 7 also eliminates the problems, leading one user to suspect the issue is related to power management kernel extensions. Additional tests show that the problem happens even when FireWire or USB audio interfaces are plugged, even if they aren't actively being used."

This is yet another strike against Apple's beleaguered claims of energy efficiency, with Snow Leopard already having wasted a massive amount of energy during the DST changeover late last year.

To Mac Pro owners: you sure got told. By Apple. Maybe you should consider buying a more powerful computer for audio use. They're called netbooks.