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> It would be nice if people writing "mythbuster" articles did some elementary fact checking. Yeah, I'm sure that a site ran by a former Apple exec/Be Inc. fou
by GuiA 11y ago
> It would be nice if people writing "mythbuster" articles did some elementary fact checking.
Yeah, I'm sure that a site ran by a former Apple exec/Be Inc. founder and one of Europe's most successful tech journalists absolutely doesn't do any fact checking.
Nerds can quibble all they want about how usenet was totally a social network and tablets were totally a thing in 1995 and smartphones were totally invented by Nokia, but the reality is that if you get out of the nerd echo chamber and ask normal people, for them tablets start with the iPad, smartphones start with the iPhone, and social networks start with Facebook.
The problem with always wanting to be "technically correct" is that it makes you miss the bigger picture.
- Oletros 11y ago> , but the reality is that if you get out of the nerd echo chamber and ask normal people, for them tablets start with the iPad, smartphones start with the iPhone, And some people are convinced that the moon landing in 1969 was an hoax Reality is that Apple didn't invented the smartphone.
- GuiA 11y agoIf you're being very literal about the word "invented", then sure. If instead you're using the word "invented" the way the authors are - that is, meaning making a technology enter the public consciousness and creating a mainstream industry out of it, then I stand by my original point.
- Oletros 11y ago> If instead you're using the word "invented" the way the authors are - that is, meaning making a technology enter the public consciousness and creating a mainstream industry out of it, then I stand by my original point. Still wrong. iPhone didn't create a mainstream industry, inf cat, the smartphone growth pre iphone and post iphone (200-2009) was the same