“By now, you may have heard something about a couple of articles we’ve been planning about Apple and its products. We sure have,” Ramon G. McLeod writes for PCWorld.com.
McLeod writes, “Both pieces were written by PC World staffers Alan Stafford and Narasu Rebbapragada, who have been around Apple products long enough, in both their personal and professional lives, to have their share of criticisms and compliments for the company’s stuff. And both were meant as silly little conversation-starters–originally inspired by the ‘I’m a Mac, I’m a PC’ ads–not weighty journalism. If you don’t think they’re Pulitzer material, we’re not offended in the least.”
The full insipid, vapid articles with rehashed-to-death themes (which we’ve condensed), please Think Before You Click™:
Ten Things We Hate About Apple:
1. Apple sued some websites
2. Apple’s secretive
3. Apple blamed Microsoft for Windows worm that shipped on handful of iPods
4. Products that start with lowercase “i”
5. No Blu-ray built-into Macs, yet
6. iMac’s hockey puck mouse (MDN Note: discontinued nearly seven years ago)
7. Apple doesn’t tell world about security issues until they patch them (MDN Note: thus sparing users from attack)
8. Where are the Mac games?
9. No cheap Mac tower
10. iPods don’t play WMA
Ten Things We Love About Apple:
1. Apple’s industrial design
2. Mac OS X Tiger “rules”
3. Reliable products: Macs and iPods
4. Jobs stands up to greedy music cartels
5. Mac runs Windows
6. “The Secret Diary of Steve Jobs” blog
7. Apple Retail Stores
8. Money saved on security software
9. Excellent TV ads
10. The cottage industry in cool Apple accessories
We post this only as a followup to the original story (see related article below) and sincerely hope this puts a cap on PC World’s Dvorakian quest for hits. This whole thing is about as low as we’ve seen a tech outfit go to manufacture “controversy” and traffic. It’s sad. Please, Think Before You Click™.
MacDailyNews’ Ten Things That Seem Obvious About PC World:
1. They seem to really need hits
2. They give watching paint dry a serious run for its money
3. They don’t know much about Apple, Macs, or iPods
4. They love list articles because they’re easy to write
5. They love list articles because they’re lazy
6. They love list articles because such articles are known to generate hits regardless of quality
7. The only thing more boring and out-of-date is a Windows PC itself
8. Staffers really seem to wish they worked for Macworld instead
9. They exist to make PC Magazine look good
10. Harry McCracken was probably leaving anyway
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