01.29.12
Posted in Apple, News, Rants, Tech at 2:49 am by 37prime
There is one thing I learned over the years about the media:
“Take the news with a grain or even boulder of salt.”
New York Times recently published a hit piece on Apple titled: “In China, Human Costs Are Built Into an iPad“. The article stirred a controversy in the Tech world. As usual, known Apple haters are getting off on the New York Times “expose” on Apple. On the other side, Apple fanatics are crying foul. 9to5Mac published the email from Tim Cook addressing the accusations made by the New York Times.
What the New York Time did is nothing more than going where the money is. Apple just had a record earnings surpassing almost all companies in the world. iPhone 4S was a best seller during the holiday season. Nothing but good news for Apple. An Article about Apple guarantees page hits. A scandalous Apple story guarantees the masses to flock to the New York Times, just to read and talk about the article.
At one point in my life, I believed that the media told the truth. That changed years ago. There are a lot of bias in media. After all, the articles are written by human with feelings, preference and affiliations. That’s why we all should take the story from the media with a grain or even a boulder of salt.
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11.08.11
Posted in Rants, Tech at 4:57 pm by 37prime
There are sheep and there are liars. Wait a second. There are also die-hard fans.
John Gruber might be a die-hard Apple fan, but he is right in many cases. In the post titled ‘Built to Be Flexible’ Gruber points out that the managing editor of OSNews.com might be living in alternate universe. This OSNews.com managing editor simply was filling out the blank with speculations based on what he personally prefers. Even better, he is pulling things out of thin air. It is nothing strange from the same OSNwes.com managing editor who’s using OSNews.com as his personal soap-box. Seriously, get your own personal site for all your personal agenda. Your views should not represent OSNews.com. That’s probably why many of us have stopped reading OSNews.com. I personally let Gruber point out the stupid things posted on OSNews.com.
Anyway, dot dot dot.
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10.29.11
Posted in Rants, Tech at 4:40 am by 37prime
Lie
“My platform of choice is better than you because it is:
- Reason 1
- Reason 2
- It is unlike your platform of choice
- Reason 4
- ???????
As you can see, my platform of choice looks a lot better than yours.”
Cheat
“I shipped more than what you’ve sold.”
Steal
“Well, anyone can come up with what you came up with. Sure that no one made anything like what you made before you made it, but isn’t it obvious? Prior Art, Prior Art, Prior Art. You stole it from Star Trek and Star Wars.”
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10.04.11
Posted in Announcements, Apple, iPhone, News, Rants, Tech at 4:07 am by 37prime
Apple’s “Let’s talk iPhone.” event is less than six hours away, yet the rumors and speculations are still running rampant. As usual, numbers of the invitees will be reporting live from 1 Infinite Loop, Cupertino, CA 95014; many call it liveblogging. The funniest part about this event and many Apple events, a lot of bloggers and sites are pulling a Gizmodo. You are not liveblogging if you’re not there. You’re not invited and obviously you’re not even there. How in the world can you be reporting live, giving a play by play of the event? Apparently you’re planning to steal the reports from people who are actually in there.
Harry McCracken of Technologizer was supposedly invited to the event but unable to attend due to a previously scheduled engagement. Instead of pretending to be liveblogging from the venue, McCracken asked Macworld permission to embed the live feed. That’s the proper way to do it. I respect McCracken.
So, if you’re not even there and you’re claiming to be live reporting/liveblogging then you are either a thief or a liar; possibly both.
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09.26.11
Posted in Rants, Tech at 5:20 am by 37prime
As I have stated before, Tech Industry Analysts are not really using any logic and common sense as they are making up predictions. Apple this, Apple that. Intel is buying McAfee to make softwares for Auto Industry. Nokia and Windows Phone 7 will overtake Android and iPhones soon.
Seriously, any 13-year-olds can make better predictions than these overpaid Tech Industry Analysts.
Rumor sites are not making things better. Taking rumors and spinning them into reportable facts. Then tons of parrot bloggers are busy copying and pasting the same misinformation over and over.
Have I had a rant like this before? Feels like I have.
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07.30.11
Posted in Apple, Rants, Tech at 4:55 am by 37prime
The usual reposting of news can get so annoying.
So Apple has a lot of cash, then what? Apparently there’ll be thousands of individuals with blogs would repost the same sentence over and over. Some of them are wearing out the Copy & Paste key combination on their keyboard.
It is not really news that Apple has more cash than US Government.
I do not want to get political, so I stop on this subject here.
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07.21.11
Posted in Apple, Mac OS X, Rants, Tech at 3:42 pm by 37prime
Apple finally released OS X Lion on July 20th, 2011 and effectively lifted up the NDA. First of reviews were publish shortly after and these reviewers were honoring the NDA/embargo. There are some who broke the NDA/embargo, just look for the published reviews pre-dating the July 20th, 2011. Apparently getting a lot of page hit is a lot more important than writing an objective reviews.
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06.19.11
Posted in Apple, iPhone, Media, News, Rants, Tech at 4:08 am by 37prime
Once upon a time Apple filed a patent on infrared system for the iPhone that might receive commands to disable video recording on the device. Then people starts panicking and protesting Apple; on their blogs.
Pardon the profanities.
Seriously, calm the fuck down! It is a fucking patent filing.
Should RIAA and MPAA wanted this technology to be built into the phones, the patent holder can just say no.
In addition to that I would be really happy to be able to watch bands like Bad Religion and Slayer live without having 100 people right in front of me raising their phone videotaping the stage.
Go ahead, jump to your conclusion and stop buying/using any Apple products right now.
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05.23.11
Posted in Announcements, Apple, Mac OS X, Media, News, Rants, Resources, Security, Tech, Troubleshooting at 4:45 pm by very
Just like Michael Moore on the Republican. Just like Rush Limbaugh on the Democrats. Just Like Glen Beck on the Liberals. That’s what Ed Bott on Apple. Take what Bott says with a boulder of salt.
This is from today:
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04.25.11
Posted in Apple, iPad, iPhone, News, Rants, Security, Tech at 2:44 pm by 37prime
If you are a paranoid, you should immediately abandon anything you have made by Apple. Throwaway your iPhone, iPad, MacBook Pro, Magic Mouse, Apple Keyboard, etc.
Since you’ve just read it on the Internet, then everything you could fear must be true. Someone just reposted the content from someone else’s site on a blog.
If you are an opportunist, this is the perfect time to bash Apple. How dare Apple become a popular brand? I use [insert a branded product here] and it is a million times better than Apple ever made.
If you are another type of an opprtunist, you should file lawsuit against Apple right now. You don’t need to have all the facts as long as you’re making headlines.
If you are a paranoid and an opprtunist, you definitely should stand on a soap box. After doing so, get yourself any attorney who would file lawsuit against Apple. You don’t need to know the fact because once you do you might not be able to sue.
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