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> the iPad 2 announcement was chock-full of flat-out lies Do you have anything concrete to back this up with?

wutbrodo 12y ago
Ah of course, that was dumb of me. I was remembering this from a few years ago but I should've taken the time to dig up a source referring to it. For some reason I was thinking "everybody must remember that". Here's an article that's pretty succinct about the inaccuracy and lies in the iPad 2 announcement: http://fortune.com/2011/03/03/steve-jobs-reality-distortion-takes-its-toll-on-truth/ http://fortune.com/2011/03/03/steve-jobs-reality-distortion-...
- axman6 12y ago
  Shock news: Marketing puts company's products in positive light! All companies tweak the truth to make themselves look good (which company was touting their huge sales numbers when they had barely sold any products to actual customers, just retailers?). Apple aren't alone, they just get the most press.
  - wutbrodo 12y ago
    I don't know why almost everyone in this thread is acting as if anything even incidentally negative about Apple is a personal attack on them and their family; it's really rather pathetic. As you said, this is common practice, and Apple may or may not be one of the more egregious offenders [1], but it doesn't matter. I wasn't saying anything about Apple being shittier than other companies in this regard; I was responding to the parent commenter's claim that a company wouldn't do something like that these days. Now how the fuck is your claim of "Every company does this, leave Apple alone!" not in full support of my point (and arguing against a point that, as near as I can tell, nobody made)? [1] IMO the lie about the Samsung quote is a level of dishonesty you don't see all that often but my point is that differences in degree like that aren't really relevant
meepmorp 12y ago
> Do you have anything concrete to back this up with? A smug sense of superiority.

Ah of course, that was dumb of me. I was remembering this from a few years ago but I should've taken the time to dig up a source referring to it. For some reason I was thinking "everybody must remember that". Here's an article that's pretty succinct about the inaccuracy and lies in the iPad 2 announcement: http://fortune.com/2011/03/03/steve-jobs-reality-distortion-takes-its-toll-on-truth/ http://fortune.com/2011/03/03/steve-jobs-reality-distortion-...

axman6 12y ago
Shock news: Marketing puts company's products in positive light! All companies tweak the truth to make themselves look good (which company was touting their huge sales numbers when they had barely sold any products to actual customers, just retailers?). Apple aren't alone, they just get the most press.
- wutbrodo 12y ago
  I don't know why almost everyone in this thread is acting as if anything even incidentally negative about Apple is a personal attack on them and their family; it's really rather pathetic. As you said, this is common practice, and Apple may or may not be one of the more egregious offenders [1], but it doesn't matter. I wasn't saying anything about Apple being shittier than other companies in this regard; I was responding to the parent commenter's claim that a company wouldn't do something like that these days. Now how the fuck is your claim of "Every company does this, leave Apple alone!" not in full support of my point (and arguing against a point that, as near as I can tell, nobody made)? [1] IMO the lie about the Samsung quote is a level of dishonesty you don't see all that often but my point is that differences in degree like that aren't really relevant

meepmorp 12y ago

> Do you have anything concrete to back this up with? A smug sense of superiority.