The Verge’s Tom Warren reports on Microsoft realizing what everyone else realized about Windows RT before it shipped:

“We think that there was some confusion in the market last year on the difference between Surface RT and Surface Pro,” admits Cowett. “We want to help make it easier for people, and these are two different products designed for two different people.”

Literally two? That explains the write-off.

I am not a horror fan at all, but Joshua Hoffine’s images are terrifically disturbing.

Like the clown.

Right?

Ha-ha!

The clown.

The horrible, horrible clown.

Oh, god.

This is outrageous. I encourage everyone to tweet their outrage about Twitter stereotypes.

(Via Richard Dunlop-Walters)

Thanks to the current issue of The Loop Magazine, I am now a noted national writer on the issue of health care.

The debate over Health Care in the U.S. has been incendiary and I don’t really want to get into questions of policy. They’re complicated and annoying and thinking about them causes what doctors call “brain fatigue” which is not covered under most plans, even though it can be fatal. The only important thing for you to know is that if you don’t agree with me on this issue, whatever my position is, you are Hitler.

Looking forward to appearing on CNN sometime soon.

I’m repeating myself but I guess I have to since no one else mentions these things. Three points out this Piper Jaffray survey saying “Teens love iOS devices!”

1. I’m sure teens do love them. They also love music, junk food and loudly proclaiming that no one understands them and slamming the door.
2. Gene Munster’s scientific rigor is often on the same level as that of alchemy, astrology and Jenny McCarthy.
3. Apple is a Piper Jaffray client.

So… you know.

Tap Tap Tap, the makers of Camera+ just lost a customer. Well, two, including me.

(Via David Chartier)

Josh Marshall of Talking Points Memo:

We’ve got a number of queries recently about whether we’re still on Google Currents or Flipboard of other similar services. The answer is no.

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On the subject of these other services, I know this disrupts some readers reading habits. So we don’t do this lightly. But these companies are basically scams against the publishers…

That’s a pretty strong word, but it does seem like any intermediary that disassociates your content from you is counter-productive. TPM has summarized RSS feeds with full articles for free on the site with ads with full feeds for their premium subscribers.

Rene Ritchie on Eric Schmidt’s claim that Android is ‘more secure than the iPhone’:

Schmidt’s schtick is to say outrageous stuff and get attention just like I’m giving him now. He says stuff he knows that you know that he knows isn’t true, but in a way that makes you think he actually believes it.

I had’t actually considered that Schmidt was engaging in PT Barnum-ism with his wacky statements to date (I thought he was just crazy), but given this piece in Quartz quoting Google’s head of Android security giving the same “Android’s more secure than iOS” line, I wonder if this whole thing isn’t an orchestrated effort on Google’s part to influence perceptions. You know, since they apparently can’t influence reality.

I really don’t say this lightly but can you imagine if an Apple device got reviews like this? They would literally be talking about it non-stop on CNBC.

There is this conventional wisdom that says Samsung is the new king of innovation. But that is a different kind of innovation than the kind of innovation people mean when talking about Apple. When talking about companies that are not fruit-themed, failures like this are simply how the sausage is made. Apple, on the other hand, is held to an entirely different standard.