The Media's Crush on Apple

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Posted by CmdrTaco on Thursday January 12, 2006 @07:00AM from the well-their-laptops-are-very-shiny dept.

conq writes "BusinessWeek reports: "It's the first time in my memory that a product announcement by Steve Jobs has caused the AP to send an alert -- especially since this development was fully expected. And it says a lot about the intensity of media attention Apple generates. When is the last time a NewsAlert went out based on the words of Michael Dell or Bill Gates? Clearly, the AP's editors determined this news was important enough to warrant such action."

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Re:Last week? by Tibor+the+Hun · 2006-01-12 07:07 · Score: 5, Funny

Bill Gates is the Nostradamus of our lifetime.
In his own words he has eliminated spam, brought speech and handwriting recognition to everyday computing, and has a solid foothold in our livingroom with their useful windows media center PCs.

Our potential truly is their passion.

Apple on the other hand just keeps releasing products that we can do nothing else with but use them...
OS X, Garage Band, iTunes, Spotlight...

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Re:I think the bias is warranted... by karmatic · 2006-01-12 07:13 · Score: 5, Funny

True. With Apple, you have to install the virus. With a Windows PC, it comes preloaded.
Re:Well, Gates WAS a "Person of the Year" by Avohir · 2006-01-12 07:15 · Score: 5, Funny

...His expertise is reliability and customer support ... thank you for praising Dell, please wait while your praise is rerouted to New Delhi...

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Re:Well, by winkydink · 2006-01-12 07:19 · Score: 5, Funny

Because Google hasn't done so much as fart (though you'd see it on the front page if they did) since Friday.

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Re:Wait a minute... by Jay+Random+the+Other · 2006-01-12 07:25 · Score: 5, Funny

Quite right.

Linus floats one inch above the ground.

Steve appears to float one inch above the ground, but that's an illusion caused by the RDF.

Bill stays at ground level, but the ground shrinks one inch away to avoid touching him.

Any more silly questions?
Re:Last week? by Rei · 2006-01-12 07:27 · Score: 5, Funny

I have no problem with the media picking this up, but what the heck is up with appledot.org?

Apple: The Media's Crush on Apple
IT: 'The IT Crowd' UK Sit-com
Science: Taiwan Breeds Transgenic, Fluorescent Green Pigs
Apple: Windows on Intel Macs - Yes or No?
Apple: Apple Responds to iTunes Spying Allegations
IT: Lawmakers Try to Protect Kids From Spam
Apple: Sun and Apple Could Have Merged

Sorry, slashdot.org. Typo.

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Re:Last week? by Wyatt+Earp · 2006-01-12 07:58 · Score: 5, Funny

If they'd been here a while they'd recall that once upon a time Apple couldn't get a single positive article on here. Even the iPod got slammed around here.
http://apple.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=01/10/23/ 1816257&tid=107

Apple releases iPod
Posted by CmdrTaco on Tuesday October 23, @10:20
from the well-thats-not-very-exciting dept.

The BrownFury writes "At an invitation only event Apple has released their new MP3 player called the iPod. iPod is the size of a deck of cards. 2.4" wide by 4" tall by .78" thick 6.5 ounces. 5 GB HDD, 10 hr battery life, charged via FireWire. Works as a firewire drive as well. Works in conjunctions with iTunes 2. Here are Live updates". No wireless. Less space than a nomad. Lame.
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