– Why are the mainstream tech media and most market analysts so blatantly jealous of Apple?
– What has Apple done to them other than make great products which improve the lives of millions of people around the world?
– What has Apple done to them other than lead the world in technology innovation; forcing all the other habitually lazy and brain-dead tech companies to raise their own bars?
– What has Apple done to them other than build an incredibly successful business which creates jobs?
– Why are they compelled to recklessly guide ignorant readers towards pain and suffering resulting from buying half-baked copycats?
– Are they all being paid by these other companies [“journalism as advertisement”], and if so should there not be proper disclosure?
– Why would anyone with a shred of credibility be compelled to advocate for wholly un-original thinking / products predominately drawn through intellectual property theft?
– How can they so blatantly compromise journalistic integrity by consistently manipulating facts in favor of so-called “competition”?
– Why do they consistently skew facts and statistics in an attempt to portray Apple products less favorably?
– Why can’t they just be honest and call out Android the being the unrefined, derivative plagiarism that it is… AT LEAST relative to the Apple originals?
– How can they possibly justify repeated casual use of “absurd correlations of equivalence” with statements such as “…as with the iPad, GalaxyTab and similar products.”
– Why do they regularly ignore profit comparisons (i.e. “business success”) in favor of highlighting channel-thrus resulting PREDOMINANTLY from price-slashing, rebates and buy-1-get-1-free offers?
The iPhone and iPad rightfully deserve to own these markets in manner similar to the iPod. Sorry, diluted Stuart Smiley “I’m good enough” failures, but Apple has built better products and a better business model and therefore in the present context “Wins.” Go see your quack therapist, get over it, and accept reality. It will be better for you and your readers/investor clients if you live in fact.
What do you think?
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Look at how riled up the Mac Masses get at a negative (usually undeservedly so) article.
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Thank you for making me laugh! (because they are dumb) 😀
In Australia it’s called the “Tall Poppy” syndrome. The tallest poppy gets cut back to the height of the others. Apple being the tallest er… poppy of them all.
Many people hate others success.
I like Oscar Wilde’s take. “Better to be talked about badly than not to be talked about at all” (approximate quote)
Even the Apple bashers are still talking about…. ta dah!! Apple!
Most Mac products are not made for geeks and the geek community cannot stand buying a device without the ability to “modify” it therefore, they hate the product without having to experience it. Somehow refusal by the “tech” community gives tech writers permission to trash products. Apple really attempts to create products “for the rest of us”. Observe the acceptance or the iPad by the non tech world. It galls me when someone says when they see my iPad “it’s just a big iPhone or a nice toy”. As a professional photographer I’ve used Macs exclusively since the 70’s because I needed a tool. Not to use a computer but to get the job done!
I really think the whole anti-Apple stems from people who really wanted to buy Apple products when they were young, but could not afford it and thus became bitter towards Apple. I paid over $5500 for a Mac Quadra 800 system in the early ’90s as a college student, which was hugely expensive even by today’s standards. Every year computers get faster and cheaper, but Apple maintains it’s profit margin – and that pisses the cheapskates off royal.
Joe Architect is absolutely right on the money. As to why the mainstream “experts” hate Apple, I’m as baffled as the next guy. If you ask me, the whole country has gone stark raving mad and stupid, fake journalism is just one of innumerable examples one can present to prove the point.
@John E
… “Apple is definitely arrogant, sometimes even smug. it is certainly secretive. it consistently projects a superiority meme as an integral part of its marketing. “
I’ll accept your judgment if you can provide and illustrate numerous instances of “DEFINITELY” being arrogant and sometimes even smug.
Can you actually can demonstrate and substantiate that Apple is “DEFINITELY” arrogant?
Can you truly demonstrate and substantiate that Apple is sometimes smug?
Not that this really counts too much as they have a right to be smug sometimes!
Have you thought this through fully, there as various reasons why Apple might appear “DEFINITELY” arrogant as there are reasons you have failed to decipher and comprehend them. It seems that you want the Apple Inc. to spell out their strategies to you.
To be justifiable you need to show a sustained track record … una hirundo non facit ver
Apple has ALWAYS marched to the beat of a “think different” drummer & MAINSTREAM people LOATH anybody who dares to do that.
Apple does not play by the rules, they redefine the rules.
I think, therefore I use Apple products.
Change is painful and hard to face (“Who stole my cheese”). Apple’s growth into the preeminent tech company, supplanting the Microsoft hegemony is painful because, tech pundits are finding out that they’ve hooked their career wagons to declining star.
On top of that, journalist grads have come out of college with a ridiculous world view that “equality” trumps everything. They must find some equivalency and value in all things. If it doesn’t exist, they will do back flips to create it. At least with Macs were $4K vs a $2K PC they point to price as big PC advantage (which excused a lot of blind eyes in regards to quality and total cost of ownership). Now with Apple selling iPads for less than any second rate copycat, that rug has been pulled out from under them. There world is topsy turvey and they blame Apple for their confusion and consternation.
Other than that, I haven’t got a clue.
@skylark – you serious? constantly claiming without qualification that one’s products are “the best” is textbook arrogance. Apple’s products are often best from various perspectives, sure, but no one company or product or person on earth is always the best. and no one perspective captures all truths. sometimes and someways the other guys are better. not much humility at Apple, the opposite of arrogance. instead constant referrals to “amazing!” and other rhetorical superlatives for anything Apple, while very dismissive of competing ideas and products (like calling 7″ tablets “DOA”), if not outright condescending.
Simple:
Tech Media folk need something shiny and new to talk about each and every day to achieve web clicks and people hearing about the latest this or that.
Apple does not provide a daily meal for magazines and tech writers. If Apple dominates it does the tech journalist world no good. They starve for news, so they pump up anything they can as intriguing or great, bla, bla, bla.
They care not about you, just their paycheck and success in keeping suckers coming back for more reviews on garbage.
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@Max
“I like Oscar Wilde’s take. “Better to be talked about badly than not to be talked about at all” (approximate quote)”
Yes!
No other company on the face of the planet get’s the type of constant press coverage that Apple does.
If Apple hiccups, burps or smiles it is news.
If Apple is holding an event it is covered in every national radio and TV newscast and in all major newspapers. The blogs hum like beehives with speculation.
No other company gets that kind of coverage.
Apple makes news everyday. Even CNBC and others who report on financial matters include some comment about Apple daily.
I suppose that for people who don’t like or want to like Apple they are driven to distraction with Apple! Apple! Apple!
It’s not hard to imagine, as others have pointed out, that editors tell reporters you can’t continually just write Apple is great-The End.
So they create the fictional “monster competitor” or the “glitch” in an Apple product.
If Apple didn’t fascinate the planet we would hear very little about it.
Other than perhaps in some remote villages in third world countries or the rainforest almost everyone has heard of Apple.
Here is a test, pick a high school anywhere in the US hold an assembly for all the students.
Tell them that you will be handing out smart cell phones and that if they name the correct company they think makes the best cell phone they will get that cell phone to take home today. Give them each a blank sheet of paper-tell them to write down the name of the company along with their name and address legibly printed just fill it out fold it and hand it in.
What company do you suppose will get named the most by a substantial majority?
Exactly!
I rest my case!
The mainstream tech media and most market analysts aren’t jealous of Apple, they’re just directly and indirectly paid by Microsoft to evangelize the Windows ecosystem while slamming the alternatives.
Oh wait, that was the past. Now they’re receiving incentives from Google as well. Can’t forget that the company of “Do No Evil” has joined in on the fun.
@John E
Are you serious? You say it’s arrogant for Apple to call its products the best, but then you say their products are often the best from various perspectives. So Apple is arrogant for what, being candid?
And they use superlatives like “amazing”? Well, let’s see. They revolutionized personal computers, MP3 players, the way music/tv shows/movies are sold, smartphones, and tablets. Do I even have to mention the impact that Aqua, iMacs, and iPods had(and continue to have!) on pretty much the entire design industry? Before Steve Jobs left, and since after he came back, Apple has had a very solid track record for recognizing it when they have something amazing on their hands. But I guess daring to call something amazing, even when it turns out it really is amazing and goes on to basically change the world, is “arrogant”?
And they’re very dismissive of “competing” ideas and products? Umm… why shouldn’t they be? All the competing ideas and products are just shameless rehashes of Apple’s own ideas and products, warmed over and served badly. The only time that’s ever worked out is when Microsoft backed it up with predatory anti-competitive shenanigans, but now even that’s running out of steam.
So what would you have Apple do? Talk down their own stuff? Feign concern over DOA competition? And you’re calling them arrogant as compared to what, exactly? They’re absolutely humble compared to the likes of Microsoft, Google, RIM, Dell and way too many other companies to list.
@Max: an excellent quote, and a great analogy. Wilde, and the likes of Hunter S. Thompson and Ayn Rand (in most cases) had the bead on the sad human condition. I would also refer you to the Rush song “The Trees” for another example of the tyranny of the “majority.” Good one on you!
Objective journalism (at least from the perspective of what we consider to be objective) is dead. Frankly, I believe most competing reviews are tainted for a variety of reasons:
1) The rag that the journalist writes for is paid to advertise the competing product(s), so the review MUST be favorable;
2) The journalist is a paid shill for the competitor(s), ipso facto, favorable review…;
3) The journalist owns the product and MUST justify his/her purchase favorably;
4) The journalist just plain dislikes Apple, for whatever reason.
As a long-time Apple client (I’ved owned one form or another of Apple’s tremendous Mac line of computers) and a current iPhone4/iPad/iPod user, I decided (long ago) to pay the so-called “premium” to own Apple products because they are, simply put, superior to the drivel of mediocre offerings available. I’ve never regretted my decision, and Apple continues to produce better products. You get what you pay for…
Apple is a movement and that scares people.
Also, Apple is not afraid to call out crappy technology and that pisses off people.
Keep it up Apple.
What?!? My original comment was pulled, and then my comment that my original comment was pulled is pulled?!?
There was NOTHING wrong with my original comment! I have been posting here for years, and have never had a comment pulled. I have OPINION pieces written for MDN. Why are you pulling my comment?
My comment was no different than the one written about Australian “tall poppies”. People don’t like to see others succeed. Why was my example pulled?
‘Success’ for one brings out ‘Jealousy’ in others. This concept is not really too hard to understand.
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I have worked in newspapers for 25+ years, and my best guess is that some journalists are bogged down by a “fairness” thing. They bend over backwards to give every one a fair shot. Which is great and understandable for politics, criminal cases, etc. But journalists should also be looking out for us, and if a product is simply superior, PLEASE TELL US. There is no need for political correctness when it comes to me spending my hard-earned dollar. And, folks, Apple is it.
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