MacRumors is biased

[dmr727]

Which is no help if your employer uses Office 365.

A good reason to separate your work and personal devices. My wife works at a hospital and had been using some app that has to follow HIPAA rules, and I come to discover her phone had a management profile when it updated to iOS 26 on its own. She did some digging and also discovered that her hospital had the ability to wipe her phone at any time.

Yeah, eff that. We got her a new device right away.

 

[I7guy]

A good reason to separate your work and personal devices. My wife works at a hospital and had been using some app that has to follow HIPAA rules, and I come to discover her phone had a management profile when it updated to iOS 26 on its own. She did some digging and also discovered that her hospital had the ability to wipe her phone at any time.

Yeah, eff that. We got her a new device right away.

my personal device has work stuff in it and my company provides a generous stipend covering the cost of the line and phone.

There is a management profile installed and there are a few restrictions with work apps in place and my company can wipe my phone. It has happened zero times. So I’ll take my chances.

 

[decafjava]

I do have separate work and personal devices, I still want to have access to Outlook and other Office apps on my personal computer for those times I need to work from home - for the same reason I have some on my phone and that is mostly to communicate with students.

 

[dmr727]

There is a management profile installed and there are a few restrictions with work apps in place and my company can wipe my phone. It has happened zero times. So I’ll take my chances.

Obviously you're free to do whatever you want, but I want my phone to be my phone. If I woke up one day to see iOS 26 installed without my permission, I'd be pissed.

 

[I7guy]

Obviously you're free to do whatever you want, but I want my phone to be my phone. If I woke up one day to see iOS 26 installed without my permission, I'd be pissed.

Ah. I misunderstood as I thought there was an automatic update to iOS 26. Didn’t realize your company pushed the update.

The profile installed does not allow for that. However the mdm software can disconnect your phone from the company network if you dont keep iOS (or android) up to date.

 

[dmr727]

However the mdm software can disconnect your phone from the company network if you dont keep iOS (or android) up to date.

I can see why they do that!

 

[ericgtr12]

It is simple, MR has a editorial/journalist connection with Apple and they are not about to ruin that connection by persistently posting negative articles about the company regardless of how relevant the negativity is.

This is right on the money. It's a catch 22 for any site/account to go negative if they have any sort of relationship, this is why (most) news outlets in general don't side one way or the other to give the appearance of impropriety.

In the end this is a pro Apple site and they don't want to rock the boat with them, on one hand you can't blame them but it also means you'll have to go elsewhere to get objective reporting.

 

[I7guy]

This is right on the money. It's a catch 22 for any site/account to go negative if they have any sort of relationship, this is why (most) news outlets in general don't side one way or the other to give the appearance of impropriety.

In the end this is a pro Apple site and they don't want to rock the boat with them, on one hand you can't blame them but it also means you'll have to go elsewhere to get objective reporting.

This is not a news reporting site. This is a rumors site that reports also on news, industry deals and other tidbits relating to tech.

They report on good things and bad things Apple and other manufacturers. They generally won’t “report” on “how bad Tim Cook is doing”, because that is completely subjective. If you want that type of discourse, Macrumors isn’t for you.

So the above is just nonsense.

 

[Scepticalscribe]

news outlets in general don't side one way or the other to give the appearance of impropriety.

I'd imagine that these proverbial news sites would be more concerned (though, perhaps, less so in recent times) with cultivating the appearance of impartiality, rather than the appearance of impropriety.

In the end this is a pro Apple site and they don't want to rock the boat with them, on one hand you can't blame them but it also means you'll have to go elsewhere to get objective reporting.

An argument that might have been relatively reasonable is ruined with the use of hyperbole.

This is not a news reporting site. This is a rumors site that reports also on news, industry deals and other tidbits relating to tech.

They report on good things and bad things Apple and other manufacturers. They generally won’t “report” on “how bad Tim Cook is doing”, because that is completely subjective. If you want that type of discourse, Macrumors isn’t for you.

So the above is just nonsense.

Agreed, and well said.

 

[Madhatter32]

I'd imagine that these proverbial news sites would be more concerned (though, perhaps, less so in recent times) with cultivating the appearance of impartiality, rather than the appearance of impropriety.

An argument that might have been relatively reasonable is ruined with the use of hyperbole.


Agreed, and well said.

I agree with you. Many people today seem to want viewpoint news reporting -- which is really just editorials. It is easier than actually thinking for oneself. My opinion is that this has been caused by journalists eager to engage in viewpoint "news" reporting and social media echo chambers in general. People now are conditioned to just want (even need) to feed their confirmation bias. Here, the OP is asking for reports on the "evil" of Apple. Speaks volumes about the readership -- not MR.

 

[Nekronos]

Hey!
MacRumors doesn't publish over half of the news about Apple, especially considering the political ones or the ones that show how evil Apple is and that they're no better than Microsoft and Google (they're not, if you think they are then I've got bad news for you).
Anyway, when I post an article here it gets instantly removed, yet there are political news here sometimes. Who decides?

Also, when you correct their mistakes in articles, they edit the article without any notes and they make you look like a lunatic and over half of the people are "It says that in the article" and reacting with 🤣 reaction, even though at the time of pointing out the missing facts they weren't on the article.

I used to think that MacRumors is better than reddit etc and it has freedom of speech, but no. It doesn't.
The internet is really dead somewhat and so is MacRumors I don't know why I'm disappointed or what could be improved.

I just don't understand why some political news get published and some don't. If I'm not allowed to post political articles here then lets not publish political news at all?

I'm not going to post here what was removed, but it was political and it was about Apple.

Every entity, AI, science publication, etc. is biased because humans are biased - this most certainly includes the contributors, admin and moderators of this site.

You can't be disappointed when you expect bias everywhere - there are places and individuals that have more or less bias but it's always there, including your own.

 

[whitby]

Of course it is biased. Human beings wrote the content and we all have an axe to grind in some way. Just accept this and make sure you read content by other providers. That way you will get a variety of viewpoints and you can, perhaps, develop your own views. I do not know of a single source of information that can be your only source of information.

I liken it to a circle where the 'truth' is in the center and the views lie on the circumference of the circle at various distances from the center representing accuracy and direction being a representation of the bias. If you get enough samples around the circumference, you will be able to deduce what is at the center of the circle. Works for me and has stood me in good stead over a large number of years.

 

[ericgtr12]

Every entity, AI, science publication, etc. is biased because humans are biased - this most certainly includes the contributors, admin and moderators of this site.

You can't be disappointed when you expect bias everywhere - there are places and individuals that have more or less bias but it's always there, including your own.

Agreed and as a result most people to their favorite biased site and that's understandable. Often times when I feel like I want to see something more objective I'll just hit google news and type in the subject I'm after with no bias one way or the other and then see a whole list of headlines from various sources to gauge my own narrative for the topic.

 

[Nekronos]

Agreed and as a result most people to their favorite biased site and that's understandable. Often times when I feel like I want to see something more objective I'll just hit google news and type in the subject I'm after with no bias one way or the other and then see a whole list of headlines from various sources to gauge my own narrative for the topic.

It's something everyone honestly needs to do in order to have some semblance of objective reality in this age of misinformation, AI generated content and the decline of journalistic integrity - the price we all pay for instant "news" and media driven by clicks without rigorous review.

 

[KaliYoni]

Often times when I feel like I want to see something more objective I'll just hit google news and type in the subject I'm after with no bias one way or the other and then see a whole list of headlines from various sources to gauge my own narrative for the topic.

It's something everyone honestly needs to do

Another MR member pointed out a non-Google place that does this:
NewsNow.com

 

[groove-agent]

Also MR can make political articles, but if you bring up the same subject matter, you get a week ban.

 

[I7guy]

Also MR can make political articles, but if you bring up the same subject matter, you get a week ban.

If one is getting a week ban presumably political comments are being made in the main news thread from somebody with multiple violations or some off-topic trolling type of comments in the political news forum.

One just doesn’t get a ban for political comments made in the political forum unless other violations occurred.

 

[S.B.G]

If one is getting a week ban presumably political comments are being made in the main news thread from somebody with multiple violations or some off-topic trolling type of comments in the political news forum.

One just doesn’t get a ban for political comments made in the political forum unless other violations occurred.

…. Or the offense was egregious.