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MG Siegler built his fame from pageviews, and the pageviews were of his incessant strategy of creating flame-bait for the idiotic, but large, minority of people
by JPKab 14y ago
MG Siegler built his fame from pageviews, and the pageviews were of his incessant strategy of creating flame-bait for the idiotic, but large, minority of people who think that their smart-phone is an extension of themselves.
Here is his recipe:
1) State that, in some way, Apple is better than Android in an absurdly over the top, intellectually dishonest way.
2) Let the religious masses passionately state their love/hatred
3) Profit.
None of this makes him remotely qualified for anything in the tech business.
- budde 14y agoI would think that the partners at Google Ventures who spent weeks interviewing and vetting (and ultimately hiring) Siegler would have a much better idea of his qualifications for working in this space than you would.
- sinnerswing 14y ago..but iOS is better than Android. ;)
- mwfunk 14y agoSadly you just described most of the tech press (substitute any competing technologies and companies in step 1). I guess it worked for John Dvorak and Slashdot and plenty of others back in the day. :( BGR seems to be going in the same direction from the opposite perspective. What I like about Ars is that, while they have plenty of super opinionated writers in all camps, there seems to be editorial pressure to not let anything get too hyperbolic or cross the line into disinformation.