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Hey, not to break up the bash-the-NSA discussion, which is legit and badly needed, but did anyone notice just how bad the fact-checking is in this article? It's

by Bud 13y ago

Hey, not to break up the bash-the-NSA discussion, which is legit and badly needed, but did anyone notice just how bad the fact-checking is in this article? It's terrible. Error 1: article says the A7 is a "40x CPU performance bump". Wrong; it's 40x over the original iPhone, not over the A6. Error 2: article says graphics are "56x faster". Same error. Error 3: article claims the M7 is a motion sensor; it's not. It's a chip which handles data from the various sensors. Error 4: next paragraph after the first M7 paragraph finally gets it right. Bad editing. Error 5: Apple didn't skirt the megapixel count for the new sensor as claimed. The new sensor has the same MP count, as was stated. Error 6: article mentions a "10-shot burst mode". Wrong again. The burst mode is 10 frames per second, but is not limited to any specific number of frames. Just an incredibly bad job, here.

hayksaakian 13y ago
Welcome to techcrunch where the titles are clickbait and the facts don't matter
eksith 13y ago
Good catches. This is another classic case of being first (or at least one of the first) out the gate is more important than the rest of the race. They just want to get the traffic up to speed for ad-views before making sure the story is correct.
ihuman 13y ago
To be fair, error 1 and 2 came from Apple during the press conference. Edit: I am wrong, ignore this.
- vvhn 13y ago
  was that a press conference after the event because in the event they were clearly shown (and mentioned) to be over the original iPhone with the added claim that half of the total improvement so far is over the iPhone 5 ( a very roundabout way of saying the performance has doubled as compared to the previous iPhone)
bobbles 13y ago
I haven't been able to find a single forum/thread for the Apple announcements today (anywhere) that wasn't completely filled with either: 1) NSA flaming 2) 'lol no 5 inch / 1080p screen' style comments. 3) filled with disappointment that the iphone isnt a whole world more than what has been leaked. How useful it would be to find a forum where actual on-topic discussion was visible and it was the crap that got filtered out, instead of the other way around.
- reginaldjcooper 13y ago
  Isn't it fair to be disappointed? They dropped the visual upgrade and introduced dozens of new bugs, forcing developers to put in some serious hours. And the result is what? The best feature released is downloading new content in the background. That's wonderful, but not enough. iOS background processes are still crippled, so I can only have an open socket in the background if it's part of a VoIP app. And for some reason the VoIP flag also signals that I want the app to run on startup? I don't see why we should care about iPhones or iOS anymore. The latest upgrade is a fingerprint scanner and it's faster. Ok. The operating system finally drops the idiotic skeuomorphism and lets people share photos with Apple's version of NFC. Includes a 2D game engine. Great. Oh beacons? Wonderful, now we can opt-in to targeted localized advertisements. I'm more interested in getting a device that doesn't force its requirements inbetween me and my workflow. That means widgets, sideloading, intents, and applications that can edit the same files. Removing the animations or reducing their duration (jailbreak an iPhone, install the Accelerate package, and tell me that isn't a much better experience). On iOS you still can't even delete their default apps if you don't want them. I thought Apple was supposed to be about style? My old iPod Touch still has a folder full of apps I don't want. And an empty Newsstand. Apple is for children and the computer illiterate. The only benefit of iOS over Android is that you don't need to be totally vigilant over what you install. But the cost is living in a walled garden under the watchful eye of your nanny. I'm disappointed in iOS and the iPhone. They are becoming increasingly irrelevant. They're going to find that the preferred style changes over time, whereas Android is going to have a technical fan base for quite a while even after the "massive screens" fad dies down.

by Bud 13y ago

hayksaakian 13y ago

Welcome to techcrunch where the titles are clickbait and the facts don't matter

eksith 13y ago

Good catches. This is another classic case of being first (or at least one of the first) out the gate is more important than the rest of the race. They just want to get the traffic up to speed for ad-views before making sure the story is correct.

ihuman 13y ago

To be fair, error 1 and 2 came from Apple during the press conference. Edit: I am wrong, ignore this.

vvhn 13y ago
was that a press conference after the event because in the event they were clearly shown (and mentioned) to be over the original iPhone with the added claim that half of the total improvement so far is over the iPhone 5 ( a very roundabout way of saying the performance has doubled as compared to the previous iPhone)

bobbles 13y ago

I haven't been able to find a single forum/thread for the Apple announcements today (anywhere) that wasn't completely filled with either: 1) NSA flaming 2) 'lol no 5 inch / 1080p screen' style comments. 3) filled with disappointment that the iphone isnt a whole world more than what has been leaked. How useful it would be to find a forum where actual on-topic discussion was visible and it was the crap that got filtered out, instead of the other way around.

reginaldjcooper 13y ago
Isn't it fair to be disappointed? They dropped the visual upgrade and introduced dozens of new bugs, forcing developers to put in some serious hours. And the result is what? The best feature released is downloading new content in the background. That's wonderful, but not enough. iOS background processes are still crippled, so I can only have an open socket in the background if it's part of a VoIP app. And for some reason the VoIP flag also signals that I want the app to run on startup? I don't see why we should care about iPhones or iOS anymore. The latest upgrade is a fingerprint scanner and it's faster. Ok. The operating system finally drops the idiotic skeuomorphism and lets people share photos with Apple's version of NFC. Includes a 2D game engine. Great. Oh beacons? Wonderful, now we can opt-in to targeted localized advertisements. I'm more interested in getting a device that doesn't force its requirements inbetween me and my workflow. That means widgets, sideloading, intents, and applications that can edit the same files. Removing the animations or reducing their duration (jailbreak an iPhone, install the Accelerate package, and tell me that isn't a much better experience). On iOS you still can't even delete their default apps if you don't want them. I thought Apple was supposed to be about style? My old iPod Touch still has a folder full of apps I don't want. And an empty Newsstand. Apple is for children and the computer illiterate. The only benefit of iOS over Android is that you don't need to be totally vigilant over what you install. But the cost is living in a walled garden under the watchful eye of your nanny. I'm disappointed in iOS and the iPhone. They are becoming increasingly irrelevant. They're going to find that the preferred style changes over time, whereas Android is going to have a technical fan base for quite a while even after the "massive screens" fad dies down.