Sometimes the solution we see from the Yes / No ballot on an article are unsurprising . Sometimes they seem almost wholly random — a seemingly innocent story drive 40 thumbs - down right to vote in a topic of hour — and we initiate to mistrust our balloting arrangement might be out of whack . But most of the time it ’s a salutary barometer about how you feel about a narrative , or the subject of the report . ( That ’s another quirk of our system — sometimes people suppose our narrative is bad , and vote it down . Other times , they might actually wish our taradiddle , but they do n’t like the product the news report is about , and vote the account down as a upshot . Like I said , it ’s a canonical measure , not a nuanced one . )
That all said as a throat - clarification prologue , here are Macworld.com ’s 10 most - praised and five most - loathed stories of 2010 .
Most liked
1.Why I left Facebook(+301 )
In May , our Christopher Breen quit Facebook in the wake of the rage over its seclusion policies . Our referee seemed to appreciate his sentiment .
2 . Macworld goes hands on with the iPad ( +237 )
One of the advantages of getting invited to Apple press effect is getting your hands on unexampled computer hardware before the universal public . In the instance of the iPad , we got to use one for about half an hr , nearlyfour monthsbefore the rest of the world . We took a bunch of ikon as we were using it , and made this slideshow .
3 . iPad cases and bags galore ( +229 )
In advance of the iPad ’s discharge , Dan Frakes and David Chartier created a optical tour of pre - announce iPad accessories . People liked what they saw , apparently .
4 . The iPad ’s future shock ( +220 )
In January , developer and educator Fraser Speirs explain why dye - in - the - wool IT professionals , other techies , and Apple competitors were reacting so negatively to the iPad . Those groups might not have gotten it , but Macworld reader did .
5.An inside look at the Mac mini(+212 )
Our Dan Frakes got a new Mac miniskirt and immediately photographed it , to give Macworld readers a tour of duty of this Modern , even smaller micro Mac . Those readers were appreciative .
6 . Christmas concert perform entirely on iOS devices ( +210 )
Here ’s a fun spot of vacation cheer . A small tout ensemble takes the stage at a church in Georgia and performs a Christmas Concert entirely on iOS equipment .
7 . exposure from Apple ’s iPad outcome ( +179 )
Not only did you wish our hands - on photos of the iPad ( see # 2 ) , you also like our gallery of range of a function from the iPad unveiling event .
8 . Review : Apple iPad ( +172 )
I worked for two days straight on my review of the iPad . I ’m glad you guy rope seemed to wish it . Or were you just signalling your commendation of the iPad itself ? I ’m going to take it as a compliment , regardless .
9.Gruber : This is how Apple rolls(+171 )
John Gruber pen a column for the powder store and web site talking in detail about how Apple does product development : iteratively , starting with something simple-minded but working and then build it up , layer on layer .
10.Up close with the iPhone 4(+170 )
This photograph heading was from our hands - on time with the iPhone 4 when it was announce . You ’ll see , we got to care a white iPhone 4 , albeit briefly . History !
Most loathed
1.Kaspersky : iPhone ’s longsighted - term time to come bleak(-122 )
This selection fromPC Advisor UKquotes security system maven Eugene Kaspersky as sound out that the only two operating systems guaranteed to survive preceding 2015 are Android and Symbian . Yeah , that proceed over well .
2 . Google , Microsoft and Apple : Which one will flourish ? ( -109 )
Computerworld’sPreston Gralla think that Google is on easy street , Apple is doomed , and Microsoft is somewhere in between . You know , sometimes we place these storey just so you guys make out what other people are say . We cerebrate that ’s good for you . I ’m not say we place bets on how many negative votes a story is going to get , but I ’m not denying it either , all right ?
3 . Pre - ordering the iPad is a fool ’s game ( -75 )
In March , InfoWorld’sGalen Gruman call everyone who had pre - ordered an iPad a fool . That was n’t received so well by the Macworld interview .
4 . How a small manufacturer turned to the iPad ( -49 )
Tom Kaneshige ofCIOreported on how one manufacturer was using the iPad . I have no approximation why this story finish up in this list . Maybe it got linked to from some anti - iPad site ?
5 . Insanely bad : Ten Apple turkey of the ten ( -34 )
In other January we posted this piece byPC Advisor UK(and formerMacworld UKeditor ) Simon Jary detailing what he took to be Apple ’s biggest duds of the previous ten . Some the great unwashed hated it . ( I thought it was kind of funny , but then , I am middling much an Anglophile . I ’m surprised Simon did n’t make in a reference to Chelsea , just to make all the Man U and Arsenal supporters angry too . ) And a mountain of people just wanted to argue that 2009wasn’t the end of the ten , 2010 was .
hold off , if 2010 is really the end of the decade , does that mean I can break away Simon ’s “ Apple dud ” story a second time ?
On second thought , best if I do n’t .
