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Harry McCracken on some pundits’s feelings towards the prison that is using Apple’s products.
(via Instapaper)
David Chartier: Apple's fall from grace - BGR
Zach Epstein:
But an interesting takeaway from yesterday’s announcement may simply be that Apple has fallen from grace in some respects. Apple is fallible, even if the 4S ends up being a success. A company that could do no wrong in recent history just, well, did wrong in the eyes of pundits who had previously viewed every Apple product announcement as a gift from the heavens.
Oh no, not the poor, never-wrong-in-a-million-years pundits! Say it ain’t so, BGR.
Related: can anyone offer a rational explanation as to why BGR is worth reading? Its rumors are consistently wrong and, in the last year or two, it’s stooped to publishing baseless pre-event bullshit for pageviews.
I think Apple doesn’t give a shit what most of the pundits think and why should they. The disconnect between what pundits value and what consumers value is growing bigger and bigger and thus the irrelevance of pundits who equate their own needs with those of the average consumer.
These people will undoubtedly slam a feature like ‘Find my Friends’ because they don’t understand it or have no real use for it, and because of that it has to be worthless to everybody else. John Welch nicely paraphrased it in this tweet.
As to BGR: It, Gizmodo, Engadget and the likes mostly exist so the kind of person I was talking about in the first paragraph can still feel relevant.
The Topolsky Spin — The Angry Drunk
Another handy law to invoke when discussing tech news and articles written by New Media Douchebags and wannabe pundits.
The other one, of course, is Betteridge’s Law of Headlines.
Plausible explanation.
The Conversation: Valve's Steam on the Mac
Great podcast in which Dan Benjamin talks to Gabe Newell and Jason Mitchell of Valve and John Siracusa of Ars Technica about the introduction of Steam to the Mac.
The most interesting bit I gathered from it, was that in some respect the Mac is easier to develop for, because of platform-inherent similarities to gaming consoles.
It’s really worth a listen if one wants to know where games are heading on the Mac and on the PC in the future.
