“There’s been rash of press recently suggesting Apple is weathering a growing consumer recoil following claims about poor quality control, anti-iTunes legislation and allegations about Chinese sweatshops,” Leander Kahney writes for Wired.
“‘Are we falling out of love with iPod?’ asks the Daily Telegraph. The BBC queries, ‘Is Apple Feeling The Heat?”‘ And The Scotsman reports, ‘Apple faces the music as public discord with iPod grows,'” Kahney reports.
“‘… two years after Britain fell in love with the iPod there are signs that the pocket-sized box that transformed the way millions listen to music is beginning to lose its shine,’ claims The Scotsman,” Kahney reports.
Kahney reports, “But, in fact, there’s no consumer backlash at all. Apple’s firing on all cylinders, and is selling more Macs and iPods than ever… The ‘backlash’ is entirely limited to newsrooms and journalists on the hunt for a story about one of most influential companies in technology… Apple has long punched above its weight in terms of the media attention it attracts — it’s just now it’s attracting the wrong kind.”
Full article here.
MacDailyNews Take: The media echo chamber is a wondrous beast.
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This is a pile of crap. Everyone is running away from proprietary formats that Apple produces along with exploding hardware and numerous hardware problems. Anyone with half a brain is buying the only real operating system on the only real computers. By purchasing from Dell and HP, cusotmers are saving hundreds of dollars by not having to pay the Steve Jobs tax.
When Microsoft intruduces their own MP3 player we will indeed see the end of Apple computer. And for those that don’t believe me look at the stock price over the last 6 months….can you say incredible downward spiral? Beleagered Apple it is!
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And Microsoft has grown by how much over the last 6 months?