Japanese "hate" for iPhone all a big mistake

http://www.appleinsider.com/articles/09/02/28/japanese_hate_for_iphone_all_a_big_mistake.html

by sahaj • 17 years ago

32 15 17 years ago

sc• 17 years ago

It seems to me that the Wired article was written after the TechCrunch article in the same vein.

First Last.fm; now this. That makes 2 TechCrunch articles in 2 weeks that make some kind of big, unsubstantiated claim. For hits, perhaps. Maybe fake journalism is their new weekly feature.

karanbhangui• 17 years ago

I get it now.. Techcrunch is trying to emulate the heavyweight in journalism right now: The Onion. :P

TweedHeads2• 17 years ago

Oh come on, we all know it was pay-per-post and whether we accept it or not, it comes from redmond.

And TC is their propaganda lab.

No credibility at all.

windsurfer3• 17 years ago

And can you back up that claim?

TweedHeads2• 17 years ago

I know Australia is down under even if I've never been there.

swombat• 17 years ago

This is a pretty awful standard of journalism. I'd expect much better from Wired.

I hate to wish bad things onto people, but that's a basic ethical fault that should be punished, because it decreases the credibility of the whole paper (and a newspaper with no credibility is worthless). Not saying he should be fired, but harshly reprimanded, definitely. Twisting the facts to make a story more sensational is very improper.

unalone• 17 years ago

Wired has had embarrassingly low standards for a long time. They go for the "razor-cool, cutting-edge" appearance, which invariably fails because the cutting-edge people don't care about being supercool. That means that while Wired occasionally has a fascinating, relevant article, they more often have lame stories that try too hard.

I don't know if "razor-cool" is a description, since it makes no sense, but it sounds good to me.

wheels• 17 years ago

Seems to be becoming a pattern for them:

http://norvig.com/fact-check.html

kragen• 17 years ago

Why would you expect better from Wired? Have you forgotten "Push" (what, was that 1994?)? "The Long Tail" (which turned out to be based on completely wrong estimates of Amazon's sales data)? MJD's qrpff sidebar (http://perl.plover.com/qrpff/)? The Cypherpunks cover with the guy with the big knife (was that 1992 or 1993)? The "End of Theory" lies about Norvig? Wired has always been about sensationalism, not meticulous accuracy, from the very beginning.

windsurfer3• 17 years ago

"appleinsider.com" Because they would be completely indifferent if someone said they didn't like an Apple product.

cardinal23• 17 years ago

While I agree that it is reasonable to be skeptical of an article defending Apple from Apple Insider, a good comment would include criticism of the article itself rather than your strictly ad hom attack.

windsurfer3• 17 years ago

Well that's just it, I don't know anymore than that. I don't know who to believe on this story.

Japanese "hate" for iPhone all a big mistake

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