Why does MacRumors give any credence to Consumer Reports?
Because they are a consumer oriented unbiased (yes you heard me right, UNBIASED) organization that deserves the praise and respect of every single Apple fanatic on here. For where would the enraged fanatic be without someone to target and cry and moan about???
While the facts in the survey could be correct, always consider the source. For over two decades, Consumer Reports has been on a mission to destroy Apple.
On a mission to destroy Apple?
Only a fanatic would think that Apple is so darn important that Consumer Reports would be on a "mission" to destroy them. To any normal, intelligent logical person, the very idea that a consumer oriented magazine would go out of their way to pick on one specific company that had almost zero relevance in the 1990s is just downright
ludicrous but to the Apple fanatic who believes their entire world revolves around Apple and that Apple is the most important company on the entire planet Earth, if not the entire known Universe, well, it's all too obvious that Consumer Reports is out to get them any time they don't give them a perfect glowing review!
In report after report, Consumer Reports has always either slammed or ignored Apple completely when ranking various computers and products.
Yes, giving the iPhone 4 the highest rating of any smart phone in the history of the Planet Earth was simply unacceptable to fanatics. They must also ignore all defects and remain silent about them or the ire of the fanatic will insist their reviews are garbage, their articles worthless and their magazine incredibly biased against Apple....
In the "Antennagate" (God, I hate that term)
ROTFLMAO. Antennagate??? LOL. I cannot believe there even is such a term for only a fanatic could turn a friendly warning about a known real problem in an otherwise near perfect praise review into some world-wide
conspiracy to destroy Apple.
, Consumer Reports tried to paint Apple as the only company whose products had a possible attenuation problem. They flat out lied about many aspects, and when proven wrong and caught in their lies, Consumer Reports never retracted their assertions, knowing full-well that the damage had already been done.
Please. Stop. They
ARE the only ones with a major antenna problem and this is a direct result of them putting the antenna right where your left hand would cover it holding the phone naturally. There is any number of other spots on the side, bottom and even the top where the antenna would not have been covered by simply holding the phone. Previous iPhones did not use that location and the head engineer warned Steve Jobs about the problem ahead of time and Steve ignored him. In short, Apple got what Apple deserved for ignoring their own engineers.
It would not surprise me if these purveyors of a beige, dull, unfriendly world that is Consumer Reports is on the take from Apple competitors. I sense that
OMG. Now they're on the take from Apple competitors.... What a warped twisted little world fanaticism creates in people's minds.
If you get the impression that I have long loathed Consumer Reports, you guessed right. So please, MacRumors, don't give these cork-soaking bastiches any links or clicks. You only empower them.
No, there is nothing wrong with Consumer Reports. It is the crazed wide-eyed FANATIC that MacRumours should be shunning, not Consumer Reports. I've never read such baseless accusations in my entire life. The sad thing is that there are REAL problems in this world that actually deserve attention and complaints. Consumer Reports not worshiping Apple and its trade partners and/or support companies is not important or a big deal in the grand scheme of things is just slightly less important than the woman who spilled coffee on herself at McDonalds and then sued them for selling hot coffee. (BTW AT&T *IS* very poor in customer service and satisfaction and got endless complaints on these very forums for their slow service, lack of 3G coverage, etc. so as far as I can tell the Consumer Reports article is right on the money.) But as always, if you don't like them, don't buy their magazine. It's as simple as that.
