Any loyal reader of my blog knows that I have a severe disdain for Apple. But many of my readers incorrectly assume that the disdain stems from some kind of religious zealotry, or that I’ve never actually used Apple products. It actually stems from the fact that I started my computing career as a huge Apple fan, and my “uncrashable” computer crashed one too many times within a 24 hour period while working on a critical project. I got tired of the outright lies about Apple products security, stability, and reliability… so I gave Steve Jobs the finger and never looked back.

I do, however, always watch with great interest whenever Apple tries to launch a product. Because lately they have been unable to do so without failing on a massive scale, and for some reason, the mainstream press doesn’t seem to care. MobileOpportunity’s Michael Mace seems to have the reason pegged:

The second problem is that Apple's skill at PR has somehow turned into an excuse for reporters not to do their jobs. The implied message in the CNET article is, "if you don't put on a spectacle, the press will ignore your products." Excuse me, but isn't the press's job to dig out the real value and separate it from the hype? Don't we pay you (or sit through your ads) to look past the PR and fancy speeches and advise us on what really matters? If we just wanted someone to echo the latest hype, we could get all our news from blogs.

It’s too bad that, instead of using fact and investigation as a differentiation between it and blogs, CNET has instead given every reporter at least one blog, from which to spew forth all manner of editorial speculation (AKA feeding the hype machine). Ned more proof?

Now I understand why Steve Jobs said the original iPhone would be a closed system because “you need it to work when you need it to work.” It wasn’t that developers in general are incapable of writing robust software that doesn’t crash the hardware (which most Windows Mobile developers have been doing for a while now), it’s that *Apple’s* developers are incapable of writing software that doesn’t crash the hardware. Right out the gate, the App Store suffers from problems that could have easily been fixed with a String.Trim(), or god forbid, some try-catch error handling around calls to a server. And why does every iTunes release have to be followed-up with a .1 point release?

Apple wouldn’t know quality control if it was first in line for the “Steve Jobs Circle-Jerk.”

















You wanna know the most ironic part of the iPhone 3G launch? The only part that ran smoothly was the purchase process before activation, which apparently was powered by Microsoft. Go figure.

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