“In an age when every day dumps a new whizbang product — a me-too smartphone, watch, tablet, fitness tracker, sound system, app—on consumers’ laps, there is something critical, something deeply human, being lost: design,” Clifton Leaf reports for Fortune. “Such was the provocative conclusion of an all-star panel of designers gathered at Fortune‘s Brainstorm Tech [held earlier this week].”
Leaf then goes on to supply the following quote in the esteemed pages of Fortune:
I’m actually highly disappointed by the Apple Watch. To some degree, Apple missed an opportunity to redefine why the tiny screen is on our wrist at all. I’m an Apple admirer and hoped for an ‘iPhone moment.’ This wasn’t it. — Gadi Amit, principal designer at the San Francisco-based NewDealDesign
Full article, tucked safely behind donotlink, here.
MacDailyNews Take: “Apple admirer” Gadi Amit is “highly disappointed by the Apple Watch.”
Oh, no! This is just terrib… uh, wait, WTF is Gadi Amit?
Gadi Amit is not only the principal designer, but also the founder of NewDealDesign which, according to their website, is responsible for the design of the Fitbit Flex, the Fitbit Force and the Fitbit Wellness Tracker.
Neither Clifton Leaf nor his Fortune editor(s) saw this information as germane to their article (if Leaf or they knew this rather easily-obtainable fact; if there even are any Fortune editors overseeing this piece besides Leaf himself).
A 3-second perusal of NewDealDesign’s website would seem like something even a cub reporter, much less an “Editor at Fortune Magazine,” as Leaf’s Twitter description reads, would undertake if they’re going to quote someone. That’s just basic journalistic due diligence, right?
We’re sure the failure to disclose that an Apple Watch “critic” — under a headline blaring “Is Apple Watch a design flop?” — is the designer for an Apple Watch rival was just a innocent oversight.
Contact:
• Clifton Leaf: https://twitter.com/CliftonLeaf
• Fortune: http://fortune.com/feedback/
[Attribution: Macworld. Thanks to MacDailyNews readers too numerous to mention individually for the heads up.]
Oh, my! (In George Takei’s voice.)
Are the days of trusting anything you read from anywhere gone forever?
I’m afraid so 🙁
Enlighten me. When did those days actually exist?
You won’t make a fortune from “Fortune.”
Unfortunately, this is just another example of Journalism #FAIL by Fortune, because in Journalism, any individual (such as by Gadi Amit) who have potential for conflicts-of-interest are EXPECTED TO BE identified & so noted for the reader by the article’s Author…and if he screws up, caught by his Editor.
If the only people you trust are the people who blindly support your opinion and do not question your thinking you are hopelessly devoid of real intellectual honesty.
Incredible
Hypocrisy💥😱⌚️ Deception
What’s the opposite of a Pulitzer Prize? Whatever it is, it’s coloured brown, and Fortune is now a front-runner in the race (to the bottom) to win it.
Would it be a Putz prize? 🖖😀⌚️
Another thinly veiled racist MDN take when they could have made their very good point without the silly “what is a..” comment. WTF, MDN. Really?
The words “what is a” are not in the MDN take nor the article.
What are you even talking about?
Apparently jarhead thinks that WTF can only mean “what the fuck” instead of also meaning “who the fuck” when referring to a person. So, he read the MDN Take as saying “what the fuck is Gadi Amit” and his mind threw in an indefinite article “a” to make it even worse, in his own imaginary view of what MDN said.
I’d probably call MDN prejudiced and sometimes even racist in other stories, but it doesn’t look like that applies here. Just a failure by jarhead to understand the written word.
“I’d probably call MDN prejudiced and sometimes even racist in other stories…”
You would? Why? Back up your accusations.
Someday it sure would be nice for everyone to just be able to evaluate a person’s potential, not measuring and tabulating superficial, meaningless things like skin color and gender. – MacDailyNews Take, July 14, 2015
MDN sounds like the polar opposite of “racist” to me.
More reading comprehension problems: I basically reserved my right to call out attitudes that support racism, which I see here every now and then.
Addressing your specific quote by MDN:
Ignoring the fact that some people are still being mistreated based on their race and using a false “color-blindness” argument to silence those who speak out against existing systemic racism is racist. It’s a common sly tactic used today to support the status quo. Look up “disproportionate effect” for more. Since the status quo is systemic racism that holds people down through policies that purport to be color-blind while actually hurting some more than others, supporting the status quo is enabling and supporting systemic racism.
With an account name like “Superior Being” bringing up what is racist and what’s not probably isn’t the most strategic thing… 🙂
Look up the word “someday,” Mr. Reading Comprehension.
It’s pretty clear MDN is run by a bunch of right wingers (see every loving post the minute Rush Limbaugh says anything). Being on the right is fine, but why bring their politics into a tech site? Jarhead seems to have misread the statement but it’s vague enough to be read as a knock on the name. MDN has made fun of ethnic sounding names for cheap laughs in the past– search their comments on shantanu narayen. It’s unnecessary, to make cheap, race bait, jokes to push troll traffic on your Flash-Ad ridden site. They do good work but this political bent that sometimes comes off as mildly racist is unnecessary. It leads to a comment forum filled with truly racist garbage, something they incite and then do nothing about.
MDN only posts Limbaugh articles when the U.S.’s #1 talk radio show mentions Apple Inc. You just don’t like the messenger. If the U.S. #1 radio host were a progressive (I know, it’d never happen, look at MSNBC), you wouldn’t claim “politics” where there are none. Links or it didn’t happen. Show us where MDN, in their words, are “right wing” and incite “racism,” race-baiter.
Jarhead, I recommend that you remove the jar before commenting.
We called Marines jarheads back in the day as they had their lids (hats) screwed on so tight.
What ‘race’ do you think Gadi Amit belongs to? Perhaps he is Indian which makes him Caucasian. Are you suggesting that MDN is racist against Caucasians? I think you don’t know the difference between racism and bigotry. MDN’s put down of this persons writing and research is fair game but a put down based on an unusual name is bigotry.
Israeli.
Oh, please, although they may technically fall under Caucasian, the reality is they are not treated that way– Here’s a reality check and some history, the British ruled India for hundreds of years as colonial masters. So yes, you can indeed be racist to Indians “Caucasians”. And you seem to assume that all of MDN’s staff is Caucasian and therefore can’t be racist to themselves?
You still don’t see the difference between racism and bigotry. Caucasians mistreating Caucasians is not racist, it is bigotry.
By the way, hundreds of years implies at least 200 years.
The English went to India to trade and rule, but not to settle, an attitude which increased the distance between the rulers and the ruled. By modern standards, British rule in India lasted a long time: nearly 200 years.
“WTF, MDN. Really?”
Your lack of understanding re: internet acronyms is astonishing, jhead. WTF, in this case, clearly stands for “WHO the fsck, not “WHAT the fsck.” No racism here, df. Just your ignorance of abbreviated expressions.
I think you’re probably right Randian but MDN does have a history of making fun of ethnic names – see some of there takes on Shantanu Narayen
Link(s) to back up your wild claims or it didn’t happen, race-baiter.
“Jar” is Pakistani for “dick.”
Competitors now stoop at nothing, not even gross lies about Apple under the pretext of being honest relevant experts on the topic. Samsung has started a trend to try to destroy competition by any means. Mean and nasty is getting meaner and nastier. Are there no sanctions for the culprits misdeeds?
The tactics of clandestine political organizations have become part of mainline business and commerce. “Destroy the competition through false stories, lies, propaganda… anything that you can imagine.” “Find stupid youtube videos and use money and secret PR viral campaigns that create the appearance of popular uprisings against antennas or bent phones, or some other imagined weakness.”
Apple has been on the receiving end of these dishonest business practices for decades. Sometimes, the competition is caught paying someone to pretend to hate an Apple product. Often, they are not caught. Samsung is a prime culprit, but there are others.
The tactics work to the extent there are people out there that have bought into the lies. It slows growth to some extent. They don’t work to the extent that Apple keeps outselling the competition by miles. In the end, truth always trumps lies.
What Forbes and Fortune (and likely others) do is COP OUT, by calling these propagandists – there are a lots of them – “Contributors” and then neither document their pedigree nor investigate them, but rather proclaim that the magazine is in no way responsible or involved in the content that these jokers put on the magazine web site. Laughable and criminal (but not against the law of the country, just the laws of ethical and responsible behavior.)
… And of course, Fortune is a hub of design critique.
Desperation news with a bucket of deceit thrown in. Very poor show Fortune. Just another steaming pile of Apple hate. Predictable and boring. 💩💤
Next article…
Fortune has edited its base article:
They should pull the entire article.
Hey Tim, if you are reading here, do not give any interviews to Fortune. 😉