Dingy Dave

Dave Winer posted a whine this morning about how Macs don't automatically change the time when we spring forward or fall back. Horseshit. Of course not wanting his ignoranums to be exposed for the stupid igiot it is he later modified the post to make it look as though he was meaning to have it say change your clocks tomorrow. So of course we'll document it here that masterful programmer Dave can't figure out what day it is.

More ideas from Apple

Dave Winer is once again claiming as his own ideas that Apple has already implemented. Expect shortly to hear about how Apple has stolen his wonderful idea. It is also quite telling that Winer claims to have held publication of his idea at Microsoft's request. As if we needed proof where Winer stands it's now clear his interests are not in what is best for computer users but where he thinks he can make a buck. Do you think his recent sale of Weblogs.com for millions of dollars had anything to do with his unilateral decision to shut down customer's blogs. You bet it did. With those blogs running the service would have been a much less attractive target.

Just because they didn't ask Dave

According to the latest "I told you so" post on Winer's site Yahoo is ahead because they talked to users and the users didn't leak the info. He suggests Apple, Odeo and Podshow should take notes. Perhaps, Dave, if you weren't so self-absorbed, you might stop and think that the people who did the consulting and represented users with those companies actually took their NDA's seriously and said nothing about it instead of flaunting it. As a matter of fact we know there were outsiders involved with Apple's launch of iTunes. Just not the ones Dave wanted.

By the way. Dave, you claim to be such an expert. Why should companies invite you for a user's perspective? That's like asking Steve Jobs to provide feedback on a new line of computers as an average consumer or Warren Buffet to say whether an investment tool is easy enough for the average user to understand. Too bad Yahoo! didn't go for some real user feedback. Maybe if they were looking for an API they should talk to you but never when they are looking for a user's perspective. Remember Weblogs.com? Remember all the protestations that Dave didn't screw customers? That's what it looked like from his angle. Completely reasonable. Sane. Those on the other side undoubtedly have a rather different memory of being told to bend over and grease up. At least Davey didn't get to screw up Google's web feed reader.