Subtitled, “Apple’s beloved music player plaqued [sic] by poor quality and a damaged brand,” an anonymous piece by silicon.com states, “The first signs have started to emerge this week that Apple’s super-cool must-have iPod music players are, well, how can we put it – actually not that great. For Apple’s legions of diehard fans we’re sure we’ve just committed some unimaginable sin by uttering those words but let us look at the evidence.”
For their supposed “evidence,” silicon.com really shows how far they need to reach to find examples for their hit piece. Silicon.com uses Duke University’s results in experimenting with iPods in a education setting and one journalist’s experience with three (yes, just 3) iPod mini units.
This massive wealth of “evidence” has led the geniuses at silicon.com “to look elsewhere for [their] next music players.” In fact, one brilliant silicon.com staffer “plans to pick up a 20GB Creative Zen Touch” instead of replacing his iPod mini — ostensibly before Creative goes out of business. He’d better hurry.
Silicon.com, part of CNET Networks, wants to know, “So is this the first wave of an iPod ‘backlash’? Is the iPod love affair over?” We guess if poorly-written, ham-fisted B.S. from a site plastered with Microsoft ads counts, it would be. We’ll leave it for you to decide.
Full article here.
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