In order to protect his good name, the Macalope now has a Twitter account. "TheMacalope". Accept no substitutes, ask for him by name. Well, assuming Twitter's up....

On Friday, John Gruber noticed the Macalope's point that iPhone unlocking is in danger of extinction. Today Jason Kottke checks out eBay (if you don't remember what eBay is, ask your parents about it!) and notices iPhones are going for a premium. The ability to unlock can net you $200 over the price of an iPhone 3G. OK, not everyone's going to get that much. But, just for fun, let's say you bought...

Now, dear readers, you know why the Macalope drinks. Todd starts by rightly dinging the horny one for failing to note that he did say Jobs did not actually go so far as to literally say iPhone purchasers were suckers, even though Todd put it in quotes. So the Macalope will agree he shouldn't have bothered making an issue of that particular point. The rest, however, is like getting sprayed in the fa...

The Macalope has been putting this off for days but, as he's often said, this is the beat he chose and there's no use crying about it now. After last week's announcement that the iPhone 3G would sell for $199 in the U.S., the pointy one realized there'd be one silly pundit who would be crowing over this as some kind of victory for his steel trap of a mind. Apple had dropped the price, as was long f...

The Macalope is certain that you're sitting at home asking yourself, "I wonder if the Macalope's going to buy an iPhone 3G?" Don't be embarrassed. It's OK. It's not unusual to wonder what a mythical creature who's part man, part antelope and part Mac would want in a phone. Well, OK, maybe it is. But the horny one much prefers this kind of question to when you've called him late at night and asked w...