Think about it. If you were interested in doing the most balanced job of reporting, you’d wait a couple of weeks for Apple to release this year’s iPhone. Then, instead of creating a fantasy amalgam of devices, you find the most capable competing device to match up against the iPhone. And you’d consider everything the user experience entails, not just a list of specs. If, however, you were interested in painting iPhone in the worst possible light, then this is the very best time to start smearing. Compare Apple’s year old device to what’s currently on the market and don’t limit it to one new device, of course, pit them all at once against that old iPhone. That way you can find one device with better camera specs, but nothing else better, to beat iPhone there. Check! And you can find another one with a higher screen spec, but fail to mention that the thing barely works otherwise. Check! Etcetera.
Yup, it’s Super Amalgam Nonexistent Device vs. a year old iPhone!
Then just slap on a FUDline and some quotes from random entities (who may or may not have a stake in things; we don’t know, as no information about potential conflicts of interest, if any, are disclosed) that happen to support your biased conceits and off you go merrily into syndication. That this is the only way they can conjure up the perception of besting the iPhone is a testament to how badly Apple has bitch-slapped the so-called “competition.”
Perhaps the Associated Press thinks that their readers are stupid? If not, they sure act like it, if they actually believe that they can pass off this slanted trash as objective reporting.
Full article, no TBYC™ this time, please read it to see how blatant they are about it, here.
MacDailyNews Take: This is akin to taking a 2009 BMW M5 and pitting it against a just-released Ford pickup truck, a brand new Dodge minivan, and a 2010 Honda Accord in order to “prove” that the BMW’s trunk space, seating capacity, and number of cupholders, respectively, have been “exceeded by the competition.” Good luck welding the Ford, Dodge, and Honda together into a single usable vehicle.
MacDailyNews Note: Contact and let them know that if they value their credibility, they’ll cut the bullshit and report the facts for a change.
Isn’t the AP the same group that came up with a wacky, unworkable schem. To somehow “DRM the news”? Their collective credibility is already in doubt when it comes to reporting on tech issues.
How very Orwellian.
MDN: Please post your “iPhone killer” list. I’d like to pass that on to AP and the idiot Jessica.
Well, the article’s dateline is “Seattle.” nothing better than a Seattle “reporter” and a Seattle “analyst,” right?
AP has an agenda. They just aren’t sure what it is.
Everything they publish is crap!!
The numbers – the quality -the versatility-the style- the genius- the experience- the simplicity – beat it, meet it , or eat it
Personally, I just sent AP a note and said “I’ve just deleted your App from both my iPhone and my iPad. Your cub reporter’s writing, and your inability to create a top notch app for the iPad demonstrates you don’t get it. I’ll be happy to pick up my news from more balanced news sources and more technologically savvy organizations. Bye!”
“Good luck welding the Ford, Dodge, and Honda together into a single usable vehicle.”
Suddenly I know how I’m going to spend my weekend!
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Well, she begrudgingly reveals that iPhone users buy iPhones for their next phone. Then she says iPhone users are trapped in the iTunes ecosystem as if that is a bad thing.
She does point out some problems with Android phones after saying Android phones have thousands of Apps too.
All in all it is a hit piece that damns iPhone with faint praise, but it isn’t as bad as I thought it would be, after reading MDNs take.
I saw this article in a different publication this morning. The cognitive dissonance that some can’t resolve is witnessed at the end of the article:
“The iPhone isn’t as flexible as some others, and Milanesi bristled at things Apple wouldn’t let her do, such as set custom tones for incoming text messages, a common tweak in Europe.
“But then you kind of get used to it, and you don’t miss it,” she says. “You kind of think that that’s for your own good.”
This actually says it all. Use the iPhone and you discover that so many of the “features” touted by other phones are unnecessary fluff that actually complicate your life, not simplify it. Maybe my iPhone’s camera isn’t 10 megapixels but I use it all the time because it’s so damn easy. Outside of some elements of the iPhone, many that are being rectified in iOS 4, the iPhone just handles most necessary functions easier. That’s worth more to me than a laundry list of “features” that regularly elicit annoyance when you attempt to use them. Who needs that?
I’m stunned that anyone would think that AP would put out anything without the slant they’ve come to adopt; they now have a very pronounced agenda showing in nearly all of their releases. I’d already stopped looking at their lines quite a while ago.
So do we hate Seattle now?
… no big deal.
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this must be for the under-rock-dwellers who haven’t seen the iPhone 4G on the news- all 3 of them.
Sleepless in Seattle
ChrissyOne,
Well, the place is crawling with Microsoft scum, is it not?
they want hits.. not integrity.
Tell her to take the specks from a Corvett and put them up against the specks from a 2009 Subaru WRX now take them threw the streets of any local city and the Rex will distroy it 0 to 60 in high 4’s get all those MHz to the pavement
LOL @ HMCIV
If you manage to do that, post pictures and link them somewhere in an MDN article.
Also, I’ve been ignoring most AP articles for at least a year now. Very much like Fox. Too much opinion, not enough fact. Regardless of agenda.
You have NO idea.
Oh sorry… that was @ I’ve had better coffee in NYC
(…but I’ll bet you’ve never had good salmon.)
What do expect from the Ass Press? Journalism? These days are long gone.
Move along.
Wow, that is an incredibly stupid article, esp since it is possible to make an argument that a couple of other phones out there are better. Some of the points have validity, but the author seems intent on then bastardizing them and supporting them with poor evidence.
As MDN alludes to, it seems the article is comparing the iPhone to a Frankenstein of other phones – that one has a better camera, that one has a faster processor, etc.
The iPhone is also presented as having been static for three years – sorry, but that is not even remotely true. The are substantial differences between the 3GS and the 1G and between iPhone OS1 and OS3.
I also really do not buy that the majority of people are trapped by the ecosystem. Although most people have many apps, the total investment is, I speculate, less than $50 for the majority of users. The vast majority of apps are far cheaper than ring tones were 5 yrs ago and those did not stop people from breathtakingly phones. Again, the author trots out an argument that is frighteningly stupid: “Other phones can’t connect to iTunes, which manages iPhone owners’ music, video, photos and other files.” So, users downloaded a free app and now they cannot possibly use the google alternative? Oh, wait, yeah, those are all proprietary formats…oh, wait, THEY ARE NOT. None of those things have anything to do with holding a consumer hostage. Just freaking painful.
There is some talk about “simplicity”, but really not discussion of ease of use, which we all know if a lynchpin of Apple’s approach. It also is a key reason why, even if the iPhone is losing the spec sheet war, it is an incredibly strong competitor on its own merits.
Let’s take the iPhone across all networks. They would have to give 2 away for every 1 Android device sold.
C1,
Not me! Went to Seattle for 3 days a few years back (my only time there) and it was sunny all 3 days! This was after something like 45 days of rain. Loved those bars downtown and those 5 girls all rolling and making out with each other.
Ha ha ha…when I saw the comment, ‘Well, the article’s dateline is “Seattle.” nothing better than a Seattle “reporter” and a Seattle “analyst,” right?’…I was wondering how many nanoseconds would go by before C1 responded.
“Good luck welding the Ford, Dodge, and Honda together into a single usable vehicle.”
You could call it a FoDoHo (a 4 door …ummm…well you get the picture)