Either way, the entire flipping point was that the error was a typo on the tech specs page—not the landing page that "sells" the product—not the Apple event video—just the tech specs page. Which means this wasn't a company wide error where every facet of marketing and promotion were saying the wrong thing.
That's right. The error was on the specs page. The place that was supposed to have precise and measurable information was incorrect and the fluffy marketing pages can be argued to remain correct. I take Apple at their word that their benchmarking was done with the intended 9 core chip, and this was an internal miscommunication.
I'm a designer and in the design field we use the word typo to mean "wrong information on the page."
So if I type "the world is flat", you consider that a typo? It is factually wrong, I wrote it on purpose, but you can just classify it as an error of typography? Can I cleanse any mistake I make by simply writing it down and dismissing it as a typo? That's a great trick!
You and your friends here can keep repeating "typo" more and more often to try to make a point, but it still looks funny. It would be a similar situation if I kept referring to the iPad as a phone. Maybe I'm just wrong, or maybe I'm trying to insinuate something by selectively using an incorrect term, but in neither case is that factually true.
I was responding to
your comment where you
literally used my name:
Who knows how it happened? You and @PaperMag purport to. I certainly don't.
Where did I claim to know with high confidence how the error was made? Do you know how to embed links? Point to where I said I have insight into the machinations and circumstances of this error. Do it!
Also, learn what a strawman is. You're forcing us all to argue the most boring and pointless items that have veered away from the original argument. You're basically trolling at this point. You'll literally @ me, and then when I respond, tell me not every comment has my name on it when you literally put my name into the comment. I don't know what issues you're dealing with but you should go deal with them instead of making long comments trying to convince us that the tech specs page didn't have a typo.
I'm starting to see how so many "typos" slip through your review... Seriously-- read the transcript. Read it. Don't just scan it looking for points you can argue with, but read the full text.
I replied to you with a long list of links where you and citysnaps repeat over and over again that this is (not might be, but often emphatically is) a typo.
Citysnaps is replying to posts clearly not meant for them but where I quoted them at your request, then after multiple times explaining that they're responding to a post not meant for them I was forced to quote your post to show what I
was replying to leading you to reply to a post clearly not directed to you but that you didn't read in full.
Seriously, if people would just read and stop being so quick to look for opportunities to argue...
I have never @'d you and then said you shouldn't reply to that comment.