New York Times
says something anti
For ages the New York Times has been Apple's unpaid press
office, churning out gushing press releases about Jobs' Mob's products. However in the wake of the Gizmodo affair, where Apple
called the cops on a reporter which ran a story on a leaked iPhone prototype,
it seems that the relationship is starting to change.
Hacks across the US, who are not renown for independent
thinking, are starting to realise “there go I but for the grace of god”. This morning the
New York Times summed it up when it said: “Anybody with a kilobyte of
common sense could have told Steve Jobs that the five minutes of pleasure that
came from making a criminal complaint against journalists would be followed by
much misery”.
Um yes, but you fed the Jobs' Mob arrogance to the point
where the outfit believed it could do what it liked. Of course that machine was
going to turn on you. The Gizmodo affair showed the contempt that Apple has for
the media. It is not surprising because in the US it has not thrown the outfit
any challenges, as a watchdog it has just rolled over and played dead. That is
until the Apple machine went gunning for one of its number.
The Times came up with a great quote: “ The iPad, a
gorgeous device for displaying content, has become something of a metaphor for
the hermetic kingdom of Apple. A seamless device that can’t be opened, it has
no apertures for input and is animated mostly by purchases from Apple.” Great. Why were you not noticing this when you were
banging on about it being a “game changer”? Why were you not pointing out that
buying this gear is selling your soul to a control freak outfit that wants to
lock up journalists?
It is nice that you have come to the party, but it is a
bit late. The New York Times and its ilk, created the current Apple
empire. Now
it is starting to reap what it has sown and it does not like what it
sees. Meanwhile we are left saying “we told you so, now what
are you going to do about it?”.