“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.

Well, it’s the beginning of the year and someone needs to make stuff up.

In 2011, the iPad 3 was rumored to come in the Fall and we all know how that panned out.

It is pretty apparent that this Apple employee just debunked a lot of the rumors on iPad 3. Let’s all not hold our breath for the “Retina Display iPad” for now. Even if the next iPad would have 2048-by-1536 resolution, it would only be at 264 pixels per inch. It would be a “Retina Display iPad” if the screen size would be a bit smaller, let’s say something like an 8.5-inch screen.

Then again, this “iPad 3″ might be dubbed as a 2011 Tech Flop by Taylor Hatmaker, because it doesn’t have 3D display and cannot be used as a hat.

That sounds like bullshit to me. Of course the Apple-centric sites are echoing the rumors because it is passable as Apple news.

“Don’t want to sound like a dick or nothing,” “a local Chinese-language newspaper” is not a credible source. There have been tons of rumors crediting “a local Chinese-language newspaper” in the past years, and almost all of them are just rumors.

In addition to that, a high level Apple executive who shall remain anonymous was overheard mentioning that March 2012 would be the planned release date for the next iPad. Apple is not scrambling to launch iPad 3 on Steve Jobs’ birthday.

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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.

“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.”

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.

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.