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The whole thing is starting to remind me a lot of conservative talk radio/TV. The clique of Apple tech pundit A-listers reliably delivers a predictable message
by LVB 14y ago
The whole thing is starting to remind me a lot of conservative talk radio/TV. The clique of Apple tech pundit A-listers reliably delivers a predictable message to willing listeners/readers. They are not in general good tech reviewers IMHO, and they fill the gap with an exceedingly arrogant and condescending tone. But, like conservative broadcasters, they probably are making a lot of money doing their quasi-tech-related button pushing.
It is a bit annoying to see apparently sharp people looking so often brainwashed, but I more or less ignore it at this point.
- GuiA 14y agoNon-apple partisans see their counterparts as brainwashed idiots incapable of thinking beyond what a single company offers in a sleek packaging; and those in favor of Apple see the critics as tasteless individuals with no sense of design, and who just don't get what it means to build hardware purely for the end user. I doubt there's any way out of this :)
- Ygg2 14y agoSure there is. Determine the bias of people through empirical study. I've seen people "in love" with their iP*. Any claim against Apple they take as a personal insult, even when presented with fact after fact. It's annoying. In some way it's a bit like religion, really. Otoh I've seen anti-Apple people behave in the same way, hating Apple as it is the offspring of Great Old Ones and Satan. They might actually be only thing worst that Apple-lovers.