This week was very interesting in the mobile world. Both David and Goliath were too busy dealing with their own bad press to worry about smacking each other in the face.

On Friday, Internet erupted with pretty serious accusations against Motorola and how they allegedly booby-trapped their Droid X, their flagship Android-powered superstar, so that no ROM hacking could be done whatsoever.. otherwise the device would pretty much self-destruct.

On the same day, Mark Milian from the LA Times wrote a piece on the inclusion of useless applications by carriers and the reasons behind it.

Absolutely Android put up an article titled “Why Motorola should be asked to  leave the Open Handset Alliance“, which maybe was a bit of an overreaction that we all shared at that point, but ended up somewhat appeased when Motorola “clarified” the situation. Yes, it’s arguable.

Around the same time, Apple was in damage control mode with the iPhone 4 antenna fiasco leading up to the press conference on Friday, where Steve Jobs openly admitted he actually is considering refunds and is giving shit away to avoid a mutiny among his unholy horde. Apple. Giving back money and free shit. Because they fucked up.

It was definitely a very interesting week in the mobile world. more…

Alright, this will hit home to some of my readers, but fuck it, I won’t stand for that shit. I work at a company that has as a main objective SEO, or in layman’s terms, optimizing search results for a specific site or URL. I respect what they do as a company and as individuals, it’s not my field and, even if I’ve judged it in the past, I made peace with it. While I do not approve some of the techniques which border blackhatness or ethical questionning, there’s a market, there’s a demand, and they provide the means to an end, which is perfectly fine. I’ve never done it for any of my sites, some of which had a million hits per month without SEO or advertising. I subscribe to the school of people who think that if you want good position in search engines, have a better product or a better content than the other guy — but that’s my personal take on it, and it’s in no way profitable for anyone. All that to say that I understand the concept, I don’t approve some of it, but I live with it and manage to respect people who do that for a living.

With that being said, one thing I won’t fucking tolerate is people who I call friends commenting on my blog using SEO techniques. Fuck you. That’s fucking insulting. This is my private blog, one that if you don’t have anything to say, I want you to shut the fuck up. Don’t pull that shit on me – I will ban your ass and not give one look back.

I’m not gonna make this a rant about SEO, the state of the web today, marketing or the company I work for. What had to be said has been said, and if you can’t respect it, get the fuck out right this second.

Thank you.

Edit: wanted to add that after talking it over with the person in question, I hold no grudge and feel no animosity towards him.