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What if a real newspaper ran headlines that lied, Mr Dalrymple
- ZeroGravitas 16y agoIt looks like Mr. Dalrymple makes a habit of this: "Amazon Appstore disables Android security" http://www.loopinsight.com/2011/03/29/amazon-appstore-disables-android-security/ http://www.loopinsight.com/2011/03/29/amazon-appstore-disabl...
- jarin 16y ago"… this is arguably the equivalent of suggesting that users turn off their firewall to run their software …" Windows application installers do this all the time, except they ask you to turn off or ignore your antivirus software, which is arguably worse.
- bradleyland 16y agoFunny that he mentions John Gruber: http://daringfireball.net/linked/2011/03/29/dalrymple-open http://daringfireball.net/linked/2011/03/29/dalrymple-open
- gm 16y ago... then it would be called a "blog" ... Before downvoting the heck out of me, think about it... How often do you see misleading headlines/titles on blogs vs newspapers? Link baits, flamebaits, etc...
- tintin 16y agoUnfortunately even real newspapers are having more and more misleading headlines. In some newspapers you can even read facts taken from Twitter. Sometimes it seems we are going for the democratic truth.
- gm 16y agoSuch as? I'm saying that trying to come up with a catchy headline is one of the main goals of blogging, but on newspapers you only see linkbaits and misleading headlines in the opinion/editorial pages, which are clearly labeled as such, or have the editors name on them. (ie, "Herbert: Amurkka is best country in the world") I can imagine some cheap papers doing this, but I cannot remember seeing such a headline on a newspaper. I could be wrong, though :-)
- fleitz 16y agoThe democratic truth is usually what matters, this is why China puts so much effort into changing the truth and our governments so much effort into making the truth an issue of national security so it can be suppressed, err.. classified.
- Serabe 16y agoYou are not Spanish, are you?
- gm 16y agoI'm Mexican, actually. Guilty as charged. I should have put a disclaimer saying "Speaking on USA terms..." Everything I said does not apply to Mexican newspapers either.
- brudgers 16y ago"What if it was Apple" in the headline clearly indicates that the article is speculative and not fact based. Would that all his headlines were so appropriate.
- Kylekramer 16y agoDalrymple's article comes from a weird persecution complex Apple journalists cling to despite Apple's insane success. We are talking about a story that revolves around the complexities of the definition of open source, and got pretty good play in the sites that care about such things. Sorry CNN wasn't putting it on the front page. It isn't the 90s anymore. Apple is doing fine. You don't need to stand up for them by taking petty attacks against their competitors.