Agreed. If Gawker and their bloggers are recognized a true journalist, it will be an embarrassment for people who are true journalist out there.
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Agreed. If Gawker and their bloggers are recognized a true journalist, it will be an embarrassment for people who are true journalist out there.
In a nutshell, this describes Valleywag over the entire course of its existence: a cancerous presence in online media.
Perhaps some day Tate will wake up and realize that the world he will leave behind isn't better than what it was before. Or maybe he'll never get it. Or maybe he doesn't care. Since we're talking about Valleywag, I wouldn't dare guess.
Does anyone still need further proof that almost everyone at Gawker are just thieves(J.C), liars(J.D.) and just generally arseholes?
Contact info of our latest third-rated "journalist", in case anyone wants to have a go at emailing him(this is from his site):
Work email: rtate@bizjournals.com
Work phone (direct): (415) 288-4968
Mobile phone: (415) 640-6119
Work address: 275 Battery Street, Suite 940; San Francisco, CA 94111
Work fax (shared, so put my name on any documents): (415) 398-2494
Contact info of our latest third-rated "journalist", in case anyone wants to have a go at emailing him(this is from his site):
Work email: rtate@bizjournals.com
Work phone (direct): (415) 288-4968
Mobile phone: (415) 640-6119
Work address: 275 Battery Street, Suite 940; San Francisco, CA 94111
Work fax (shared, so put my name on any documents): (415) 398-2494
Another example of the quality journalists at Gawker.
Exactly, it's pathetic how they call themselves journalists. The lack of respect towards Steve is showing, ... this is the Internet, so "bitter much".
That said, why would Steve (who knows he's talking to Gagger Media, so knows it will probably get made public) not even grammar check?
its its its
it is it is it is
it's it's it's ...
which one doesn't belong?
But not important. Glad to see Steve around and about, and that he's doing OK after his life threatening illness. And what a shame that there are bloggers out there calling themselves journalist.
Be right back, I have to write an angry email to Ford, after stealing their lost cars, and blog about it - so I am protected by the law. TTYL8Rz
Apple has taken a big risk in steadfastly dictating a very specific user experience for their devices, and though it may have a lot of people unhappy about the restrictions they put in place it seems to have payed off for them in a big way overall.
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Reminds me how he criticizes Adobe and then calls them lazy. And how his fanboys just repeat what he says over and over again because he said it. Of course Steve runs Apple, but those fanboys...
Reminds me how he criticizes Adobe and then calls them lazy. And how his fanboys just repeat what he says over and over again because he said it. Of course Steve runs Apple, but those fanboys...
Oh man I love Jobs!
That Gawker guy is a self-entitled little ****.
"Don't impose your morality on me" he says...
Really? Really Gawker? How about this- why don't we put all the porn sites on the triple XXX domain extension so people can be clear about what is porn and keep it away from their kids? Oh! That's right- porn companies oppose this, as it would make it easier for people to avoid porn! Riiight... but Apple is imposing its morality on others when it won't let people produce porn apps for the iphone...
Hey Gawker douche- how about you stop trying to force your morality about agreeing with porn on ME and just continue to consume it the way you want without forcing me to accommodate you by worry ing about my kids accessing it on my iphone or iPad? Huh? Did you think about that? Of course you didn't. Because you really are a self-centered little **** who doesn't really contribute to society much except to criticize others in your "journalism" sites.
piss off.
That Gawker guy is a self-entitled little ****.
"Don't impose your morality on me" he says...
Really? Really Gawker? How about this- why don't we put all the porn sites on the triple XXX domain extension so people can be clear about what is porn and keep it away from their kids? Oh! That's right- porn companies oppose this, as it would make it easier for people to avoid porn! Riiight... but Apple is imposing its morality on others when it won't let people produce porn apps for the iphone...
Hey Gawker douche- how about you stop trying to force your morality about agreeing with porn on ME and just continue to consume it the way you want without forcing me to accommodate you by worry ing about my kids accessing it on my iphone or iPad? Huh? Did you think about that? Of course you didn't. Because you really are a self-centered little **** who doesn't really contribute to society much except to criticize others in your "journalism" sites.
piss off.
Yep! which is one reason i will continue to spend money with them, 5 iphones, 4 ipods, 3 imacs, 2 notebooks, and almost one ipad later!
So if I want to print a circular full of naked images of women in the local newspaper, it's morally wrong for them to deny me that? This isn't about freedom of speech.
How is it any different from game consoles? You're not allowed to run any software or apps you want on a 360, ps3, or Wii. You can only run the apps Sony, MS, and Nintendo approve. They are no more open than an iPad or iPhone. You play by the manufacturer's rules. You don't like the rules, you buy something else. This is how the free market works.
Bingo! The worst part of our self-entitled society is that they have no idea of what it actually means to have your freedoms threatened, so they analogize crap like the App store having restrictions to being an infringement of free speech.
I don't think "a lot" of people are unhappy. I think the vast majority dont even realize there even are any restrictions. It's just that the small minority think it's a big issue and want to impale steve for it. Kudos to him for speaking up about it.
Sent from my iPad.
The big problem is internet advertising's over dependency on Adobe products. I would like to see an article on this topic.
No. People don't want to be forced to make ridiculous decisions at every turn though. A lot of people appreciate the care and consideration Apple puts into making their devices and the decisions they make. This freedom of choice mantra where everything has to be open and available to you is very juvenile and something people get a better perspective on as they get older and hopefully wiser.
As others told you over and over, there is no need for you to buy them then. Many of us appreciate what they are doing. People seem to think by having flash on there we would have a choice to use it or not. That is not true, if flash were used then websites would FORCE us to use it. So there would be no choice. Given how I feel about flash I prefer that if someone is forcing a choice on me, the better result is being forced not to have flash rather than the only alternative, being forced to use flash.
Yeah this is something that drives me nuts. One of my favorite shows is Criminal Minds. However it deals in very serious matter with serial killers and really depraved stuff. This is on during the second hour of primetime in the United States. It is a very gruesome and disturbing show, and for the life of me can't figure out why it is on at 8:00pm where I live. I would be much more worried about kids watching that then some show with a girl with big boobs in a bikini.
I also saw that. One of the funniest things I have seen in a while. You can feel his pain though. He got so excited to get a mac that he even gave himself a mac name and made up a signature. I suspect before he even powered it on... but now he has seemingly been brainswashed by someone somewhere to feel like Apple is out to get him. It is a little sad actually.
Hmm... I don't know about that.
It is weird to think all these people have all these porn apps on a phone. I have never thought that a mobile phone was really the best way to have porn delivered. I suspect even in my horniest young male days I would not watch porn on a cellphone sized device.
I am going to agree with Daniel. People need to stop misusing the 1984 and Orwellien analogies when it comes to Apple and Steve Jobs. It just makes you look ignorant.
Yeah kind of like Google's massive success with Nexus One. Here is the reality of the smartphone market. Millions and tens of millions of people like the Apple devices and pay for them. All the other incapable smart phone developers who in years and years of development and research could not come up with a single even semi useful operating system/user interface, were saved by Google who provide them one for free (* with massive strings attached but still free.). So now you have all these competitors that could have individually innovated or pushed ahead the market place all locked into the same commodity basket. None of them will get preferential treatment, there will be no direct synergy between hardware and software.
In otherwords this unfolding of events is perfect for Apple. As Apple works to integreate their devices all the way down to the chip level, all their competitors are separating more and more components.
Android ultimately will make it harder for the other handset makers to compete with Apple. Not to mention now they will all be too busy competing with each other just to be recognized as a android handset to buy.
What would have been much worse for Apple is if say Nokia and Motorola and HTC all came up with good UIs on their own and were able to integrate them with their hardware and provide a real challenge for apple and give them a run for their money. Instead most of the competition went the otherway.
With HP now buying Palm, they may be the only real threat on any serious level who might be able to challenge Apple down the road. Everyone else has essentially given up and decided to just hope for part of the commodity android market.
Then don't pay for it, buy something else. I mean, if Flash is so important to you, how stupid do you have to be to buy a product that is famously incapable of running it?
Why exactly have you not visited their site since the lost iPhone debacle? Are you upset that they presented the new iPhone before Steve got to?
As blunt and arrogant as you believe Steve Jobs came across, he was by no means acting "like a child himself".
If you can't see how pathetic the blogger was by filling his emails with f-words and various other cusses, then you must be blind. He would have got far further with his argument had he not came across like a prepubescent schoolkid who just learned the f-word.
It's like the idiots on the Right who say gay marriage will lead to people marrying their pets. Morons are morons and Steve feeds them their talking points. Much like FOX feeds the Right.
This doesn't even make sense. Apple couldn't just own Gawker because of some iPhone scandal. The people in this thread are incredible! I haven't seen something like this before, and I've been around here for a few years.
Redunculous!
This is hilarious, but I do agree with Steve. If people want Porn they can go to a PC, if they need coffee they go to Starbucks, if they need quickly get directions to nearest Best Buy with Starbucks they use iPhone.
This is hilarious, but I do agree with Steve. If people want Porn they can go to a PC, if they need coffee they go to Starbucks, if they need quickly get directions to nearest Best Buy with Starbucks they use iPhone.