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Elmer-DeWitt reports, “So it’s unusual and sort of refreshing to see the company go into fence-mending mode, as it seems to have done over the past few weeks — settling cases, avoiding litigation, or just doing the right thing.
For example:
• Google Voice
• Apple newsstand
• Flash-to-iPhone
• Antennagate
• Staff poaching
Full article here.
[Thanks to MacDailyNews Reader “iWill” for the heads up.]
Meh! This isn’t really news. Just business.
No over the top MDN take denying that Apple ever does anything wrong and insisting on Steve Job’s right to barbecue babies?
What do you think “news” is?….
@Clyde2801
“…insisting on Steve Job’s right to barbecue babies?”
Speaking of over the top comments…
He may have made a couple of points but, not a good partner because of Antennagate? Blindly listing the number of lawsuits for a $275 billion company (that is legendary for being copied and ripped off) without any mention as to who they are or what they are about?
That just doesn’t play for sure!
Re, “”One of Apple’s weaknesses as a company — as even Steve Jobs will admit — is that it isn’t a particularly good neighbor,” “
So lets see. Now what company would I rather have as a neighbor?
Well there is
Re, “Not a bad time to clear out some dead wood.”
Yeah. Too bad we couldn’t do the same with most of the media.
I can’t say after reading the article that the author has evidenced anything to support his opening salvo.
Re, “About This Author Philip Elmer-DeWitt:
Steve Jobs, goes the old joke at Apple, is surrounded by a reality distortion field; get too close and you might believe what he’s saying. Apple has made believers out of millions of customers — and made a lot of investors rich — but Elmer-DeWitt believes that an ounce of skepticism never hurts when writing about the company. He should know. He’s been covering Apple – and watching Steve Jobs operate — since 1982.”
Hmm. A couple of years longer than I have. But as one who has done a lot of things better and faster by believing is Steve, I don’t appreciate it when someone implies that I am an asshole for it.
My wife tell me so, is bad enough. But unfortunately, I never got her to sign a pre-nupt.
Blah blah blah
The problem with the Internet is that any idiot can blather away.
Elmer-Twitt,
how come you never write about how Bill Gates made billions idiots believers that Windpoop was an OS and not a POS?
I know, you are one of them!
Steve, won’t you be my neighbor?
Why must people always insist that whenever Apple does something that is in the best interest of the company that means they are doing something bad?
“barbecue babies?”
is there a app for that?
there should be, the fame alone being kicked off the App Store is worth the development cost
Lazy journalistic bullshit, as per usual in the tech press.
There’s an unfounded assumption here: that 141 is high for a company of Apple’s size. Go to the linked Justia site and you’ll find Google with *224* cases listed against it. Using daTwit’s logic (on a per market cap basis), Apple is only half as evil as the self-righteous Google.
Leave it to others to test tags for MicroShaft &c.. but really it was the author’s job to do this before sounding off.
Actually, the number listed against Apple is 121 not 141. Graded a big F for “Fails to even look at his own links”.
If there are any fences to mend it is because so many keep chasing Apple every time they hit it out of the park…..
Argh. Enough already with half-wits talking about iOS’s no Flash player rule being a bad thing. IT’S A REALLY GOOD THING FOR EVERYBODY EXCEPT ADOBE.
@ Enzos
Glad u pointed that out! Thanks! even MDN missed it.
They don’t mention how many of those lawsuits are from lazy, money grubbing patent whores looking to make a quick buck.
Why are almost all tech writers so clueless?
Oh, because the are 99% PC weenies 10 years behind the curve.
Original article:
Witness, for example, the 141 pending lawsuits that list Apple as a plaintiff or defendant.” (emphasis mine)
In other words, the article claimed total number of lawsuits. Not just those against Apple, but those where Apple is suing others (for example, HTC). The original number is still incorrect (and he updated his article since then), and the correct total (today) is 121.
Flash to iPhone? What is this dusch talking about? There is NO flash to iPhone and there will NEVER be!