The Macalope Weekly: Crazy making

22.10.2011
The gap between reality and the iPhone 4S commentary makes the Macalope go all sarcastic. But will he have enough sarcasm left for Wall Street analysts? Click "read more" for the surprising answer (which is "yes")! Finally, it's time to gird your loins as Steve Jobs's biography hits the shelves next week.

Can we talk for a minute about what a fail this iPhone 4S is? Ugh, mega-fail. Total disappointment fest. Lackluster-o-rama. Lame-a-palooza.

Of course, we knew this when it when it was announced. Despite the fact that it had all the features we reasonably expected of an "iPhone 5," it was in the same boring form factor as the iPhone 4 and the number "5" is literally on the device, which simply highlights the tremendosity of the über-fail we're talking about.

But now we have of the failtastrophy.

Apple on Monday announced that it sold more than four million of its new iPhone 4S since the device went on sale on October 14.