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anyone else notice Gizmodo seems bitter over the iPhone thing
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Rage and emotion? Now I know you can't comprehend basic english dialect. There's no rage and emotion in my post, just facts - unlike yours.
No, you need to take a step or two back and learn to comprehend what you read and not to fill in your own personal agenda into someone else's post.
I also like how your trying to, instead of talking about the facts of my post versus yours, spin my post as me looking down at Giz..... That let's me know right there that you have no clue what you are talking about and you have no other recourse but to make personal attacks.
My opinion of Giz is based on their past and current behaviors, they entirely deserve my opinion of them. If Engadget behaved the same why I would think of them in the same manner.
Maybe instead of being a sheep following the "Giz is the victim here, we're getting picked on by some big corporation" you should learn to discern facts and form conclusions for yourself.
Not everyone knows latest news on technology, If the scandal didnt happen, clueless people would have bought an iPhone 3GS at the time.
Since various news stations opened the story, people became aware of the new iPhone and so they waited for it
So sales of the iPhone 3GS went down
Ad hominem.
They acted with a complete lack of journalistic integrity. No rage and emotion, just a recognition that there's such a thing as ethics.
I found it very funny when they started crying about being journalists after all the legal stuff started.
Releasing the name of the tester really left a bad taste in my mouth, bad enough he might get fired from Apple, but being outed like that in public could seriously hurt his chances of getting another job. If he did get fired from apple, I really hope that he sues Gizmodo for the damage done to his reputation.
Releasing the name of the tester really left a bad taste in my mouth, bad enough he might get fired from Apple, but being outed like that in public could seriously hurt his chances of getting another job. If he did get fired from apple, I really hope that he sues Gizmodo for the damage done to his reputation.
That actually makes some sense...I never thought of the situation in that light.
Thanks for the info.
Cheers!
Why would Apple send them a testing device? They got a testing device before anyone outside of Apple did.
I couldn't agree more with Gizmodo being immature and entitled little children. When Gizmodo does something reckless and stupid, is it any surprise they get what's coming to them? As someone else mentioned, the CES prank a few years ago got them uninvited from the next year's CES. What did they expect from Apple after revealing Apple's trade secrets and trying to extort more preferential coverage out of Steve?
I'm all for investigative journalism, but what Gizmodo did with their iPhone 4 exposé was all about ego. There was no need to recount how Gizmodo acquired the phone and expose the name of the Apple employee who lost it. It felt too egotistical, too "look at how clever we were to pull this off." No doubt Gizmodo's own bragging provided evidence for the affidavit for the search warrant against them.
Having read the affidavit, including Brian Lam's email exchange with Steve Jobs, I felt no sympathy for Gizmodo. Gizmodo's entire angle was apparently, why do Walt Mossberg and other established journalists get access and we don't? We're not feeling the love from Apple even though we're more like Apple than any of them! We're pirates! Indeed. So Gizmodo justifies their actions as what's necessary to get the story, and suggests they wouldn't have to resort to such tactics if Apple could just give them preferential treatment. Cry me a river.
THEY have clearly seen the dark side? Are you serious? They clearly broke the law in several areas and even if you could somehow reason that what they did wasn't technically illegal (although I don't know how you could) it was certainly highly unethical. I wouldn't touch Gizmodo's site now with a ten foot pole.