I’ll let you write the jokes, with me as the butt, in response to this story.

AN UNFORTUNATE LOGO which has somehow made it onto the Apple App Store appears to be a Freudian slip.

Its latest application for the Iphone is a product called Icount which seems innocent enough, if not a bit challenging for the average fanboy.

However the logo that accompanies the product seems to be arranged in a way so that the letter ‘o’ is dropped.

Go on. Do your worst.

(Thanks to reader Ant Rogenous who is so completely snowed under with work and life at the moment that he has no time to blog.)

Jason announces, via Twitter, that I and my technology choice are in fact the best.

You lose, Sears.

Not to start anything again, but it seems that the battle between iPhones and BlackBerrys (BlackBerries?) is far from over.

From the New York Times, a disgruntled iPhone owner moaned:

[T]he iPhone probably sips, like a lipsticky girl with a vodka drink. It usually does things in a cute way. Whatever. At 4 in the morning, I was in bed, fighting rage. I couldn’t stop thinking about that device’s tarty little face and those yapping “apps” you can download for it. The whole iPhone enterprise seemed to require so much attention, organization, explanation, praise, electricity. I know — I know: in the morning, Apple’s latest miracle machine would fill my palm with meaning and magic. So why couldn’t I contain my annoyance? I had no new-thing excitement. It dawned on me: I hated my iPhone.

…

I refused to fight further with the smug phone. Off sailed my text — the work of a blithering idiot.

The morning after my sleepless night of charging the phone, a text message arrived from a colleague, about breakfast. It came up in a little dialogue bubble, as if we were characters in a comic book.

Now I had to reply. My throat tightened. “Running late,” I decided on. “See you in 15 min.”

What came out was this: “Runninlate. See you in 15 Mon.”

…

And so the iPhone made suggestions. Did I want to say Ride? Ripe? Ruin? No. I wanted to say Running. You know, the way a human might. But with its know-it-all suggestions, the iPhone seemed to want to be more human, more helpful, jollier than I was! The vaunted Apple user-friendliness was exposed, before my eyes, as bossiness and insincerity.

I am getting a new BlackBerry sometime in the next fortnight.

UPDATE: On the other hand, iPhones can make you riiiiiich. If you know how to. And I don’t. So, BlackBerry it is.

Malcolm tweets:

I reply:

Malcolm responds via Twitter direct message:

the pitfalls of using a blackberry!

I offer advice:

You should buy an iPhone

Yesterday we chucked my iPhone 3G in a cage with Jeremy’s Blackberry 9000 Bold and told them to fight to the death. Tonight I’m pleased to announce the results of the poll: a thumping 999,948 vote victory to Scott and his iPhone!

The people has spoken

The outcome of the challenge, whereby GrodsReaders asked questions of Scott and Jeremy about their phones, is irrelevant because of the poll landslide.

All hail the iPhone 3G and its owner, Scott The Magnificent.

Let’s get it orrrrrrrrrn!!1!

Ladies and gentlemen, it’s time for the ultimate showdown: iPhone 3G (as owned by Scott) vs. Blackberry 9000 Bold (as owned by Jeremy). Here’s how the competitors psyched themselves via email yesterday.

Scott: Got an iPhone, by the way…

Jeremy: I’m terribly terribly sorry for your news.

Scott: Your sarcasm doesn’t hide your jealousy.

Jeremy: I could have had one and deliberately chose this instead. (Sent via BlackBerry® from Vodafone)

Scott: Your false sincerity doesn’t hide your jealousy.

Jeremy: Yes, I desperately want a phone locked tight by apple.

Scott: Your false derision doesn’t hide your jealousy.

Jeremy: Your projections of jealousy don’t hide your secret doubts and the sinking feeling you’ve made a horrible, terrible mistake.

Scott: Your attempt to reverse the flow of accusations doesn’t hide your jealousy.

Jeremy: You win this round, gadget.

Scott: Your attempt at conceding defeat doesn’t hide your jealousy.

Jeremy: Your shameless refusal to withdraw from this silly exchange when a dignified exit is handed to you, doesn’t hide your inner torment at realising what an awful mistake you’ve made.

So now it’s over to you, dear GrodsReaders. The Fruit Battle will have two parts: a poll and a challenge.

The Poll

The Challenge
Ask a question of Scott and Jeremy in comments today (e.g. Does your phone have an awesome Apple logo on the back?), and Scott and Jeremy will answer with a “yes” or “no” tomorrow (e.g. Scott: “yes”; Jeremy: “no”). Person with the most positive answers wins.

Not a single Apple employee dares call him “Harry Highpants” to his face

Melbourne’s National Nine News, in one of its biggest ever scoops, has exclusively revealed that the upcoming 3G iPhone to be released in Australia later this year will run the Microsoft Windows XP operating system.

(From here.)