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 ivan256 · 2006-01-12 07:03 · Score: 5, Informative

Here's a link to that if you're interested...
Re:Last week? by ivan256 · 2006-01-12 07:29 · Score: 3, Informative

Macworld Expo. Much of the IT press is reporting on the only event going on this week, and Slashdot just posts links to what's out there...
Re:Reality Alert! by javaxman · 2006-01-12 08:00 · Score: 4, Informative

The alert is probably because most journalists seeing Intel-hardware prices this high would otherwise assume they've drunk themselves into a coma over "lunch" and woken in the 1980's.
Are you saying this Dell Inspiron is priced too high? Because it looks somewhat comprable to the specs of the MacBook, except that it includes much less software ( nothing at all like iLife, for example ), no Bluetooth, and that $1999 price doesn't give you a DVD-R drive even. I mean, you can quibble about the details, Apple's ATI X1600 vs Dell's Invidia 7800, etc, but... they look like comprable offerings at... the *exact* same price!
Did I check that right? I can order either a Dell top-of-the-line notebook, or an Apple top-of-the-line notebook, and they cost EXACTLY the same amount ? Damn, now what do I do?!?
News story != news alert by Anonymous Coward · 2006-01-12 08:15 · Score: 5, Informative

The Bill Gates story was an article. AP generated dozens of them from CES alone.

The Apple piece in question was an alert: a one-sentence "breaking news happening now!" thing that AP passes on to its subscribers. For example, if a UFO lands in Detroit, there will be an immediate alert, followed later by a detailed story.

Just so you know.