I don't agree with your comments on the app store. But that aside. Adam Curry is kooky yes but on tech he's great. He's a very entertaining person you should listen to no agenda. If you've seen the movie 2012, well Adam Curry is a real life version of the guy Woody Harrelson played, heh.
on BOL. Based on what I've heard from him before he seemed like a slightly kooky conspiracy theorist. But he was right on when he pointed out that the complaining by bay area tech journalists, pundits and bloggers about all things Apple and AT&T is not necessarily representative of a the mainstream's experience or concerns.
Its not so much the complaining (hell I have no love for AT&T and their call quality on the iPhone either). Its the self absorption of assuming that "if its happening to me it must be happening to the rest of the word too" (its not) as well as the assumption that Verizon will somehow be our savior. The grass very likely will not be greener when we get to the other side.
Same thing with the incessant bashing of the app store as if its somehow on the verge of collapse. Its got issues for sure and developers need clear guidelines, not whims, to work with. But in spite of this its still hugely successful. And is there any industry that meets this standard of perfection? If every developer whose game got rejected from the Playstation 3, or every manufacturer whose product was sent back to the drawing board by Wal-Mart When went crying to the press and broadcast their anger all over Twitter, I'm sure we might soon get the impression that something was horribly awry at these companies too.
All of this is the result of living in the tiny little tech bubble. I think some of these guys would do well to take a deep breath and step out of it once in a while.

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