OK , who got Dan Lyons in the Macalope?s Gizmodo ? ! Who get Gizmodo in the Macalope?s Dan Lyons ? ! Yes , it?s two ugly tastes that go tremendous together !
? Steve Jobs ? Reality Distortion Field Lives On ? ( GizmodoandDan Lyons ? Oh , you?d better consider there?s no link tothat , but confidential information atomic number 8 ? the antlers toAgentKyle ) .
Trite Apple meme in the newspaper headline ? Oh , you know it , young lady .
The Macalope is confused because he think Lyons wrote forNewsweek . It seems he still does , according to his bio on the objet d’art , butNewsweekapparently won?t get him publish his personal vendetta notes , so he must change by reversal to Gizmodo?and peradventure theWeekly World News?to whiplash out at his critic , of whom MG Siegler and John Gruber are just two .
The formula of pollex for following Apple is that if you need to know what Apple PR?s official line is , you just need to study the top - grade Apple apologists like John Gruber and MG Siegler .
And if you ever require to have sex how to get a situation exactly backward , read crushed - level sensationalist rag like Gizmodo , now with more no - grade writers like Lyon !
They?re pretty much operating as amateur Apple spokesbots .
Unpaid ? ! Has Lyons seen how much Gruber reportedly makes ?
orchard apple tree brief these guys , but alternatively of having the clod to do it on the disk ?
Stop the room the engineering science industry work out , Dan Lyons wants to get off !
If we could Dan , we would jazz to so we could be disembarrass of you .
? Apple feeds them some spin with the condition that they will compose it up while attributing their information to ? sources who are conversant with the place . ?
As opposed to the other publications that got information from Google ? seed who are conversant with the situation , ? who are impeccably unbiased .
Both fail to discuss the suckiness of the mathematical function app itself and alternatively spin the story to one about timing .
There?s no spin here . Both Gruber and Siegler have admit that the information reek , they?re answer the interrogation of why Apple would use it .
And , of grade , in this rendering of events , Apple is doing the right affair . And , of course , the villain is Google .
No quotes . No disproof of point that either Siegler or Gruber have made . Lyon just says ? Ofcoursethey total down on Apple?s side because they?re in Apple?s air pocket . ?
Here?s an actual quote fromGruber :
Apple wanted turn - by - turn and vector map tile . Google wanted more control over the Maps app , more branding , and more identifiable location data . So Apple impress .
Apparently , laying out what was a byplay decision by both Apple and Google is shilling in Lyons?s al-Qur’an .
Let the Macalope be clear ( again ): Bad on Apple for shipping an app with crappy information .
It?s called misdirection , and it?s mostly used by necromancer and PR multitude .
Yes ! realise why thing happened is misdirection ! Don?t seek to understand things , just brow - beat Apple !
See , this is how it work out . When you?re foist a shite off on your customers , you don?t call it a turd . You plow it with shiny sparkly bogus jewels and call it a tiara .
Lyon is shocked?SHOCKED!?to find there is marketing going on here ! It?s a dear thing Google would never do anything like that ! Like , say , faking an address in an ad to make Apple?s single-valued function data attend worse than it is .
Fortunately Apple still has shill who will carry water system for them .
The wild matter is ( as if there is just one screwball thing in this piece),Gruber concord with him :
Under - promise , over - deliver . Apple commonly does a dependable job at that , but I concord with [ Jean - Louis ] Gassee : they did not arrange expectations by rights for the fresh Maps app .
SHILL .
For what it?s deserving , there?s still no Word of God from Gruber and Siegler on how they never observe any problem with function when they were writing their original review .
It?s totally sluttish to not notice any problems , particularly after only a week of use . The Macalope?s been using iOS 6 for more than a week and he?s not seen any . Meanwhile , he can detail any number of time he got icky directions from Google?s mapping data point ? because he used it for five years and in a multifariousness of locations .
Sadly , the Venn diagram circle of ? reasonable expectations ? and ? Dan Lyons screed ? do not cross .
Steve is utter , but the realness deformation field lives on .
And Fake Steve is drained , but the self - important drama queen lives on .
