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Media Loves Apple and Its Army of Fans
cgriffin21 writes "Apple is getting more media attention right now than any other technology company, including Google. Microsoft, meanwhile, is languishing in the shadows like Cinderella on the night of the ball. That's the upshot of a study released Monday (PDF) by the Pew Research Center's Project for Excellence in Journalism, which found that Apple was the focus of 15.1 percent of media coverage between June 1, 2009 to June 30, 2010. Google received 11.4 percent of media coverage during the period, while Microsoft garnered just 3 percent."
This is my new internet filter. Load news / aggregation site , press "Ctrl+F" in chrome, type "apple" and count. If count > 10 on a single page, I never go there again.
Not the greatest fan of orchards or cider, I gather.
So right now Microsoft is getting decked out in cool clothes from its fairy godmother, and about to make a stunning entrance that turns everybody's head?
... Inside a carriage made of a fruit with attached mice?
It's a PROPHECY!
The Windows powered IDesktop is coming!
REPENT!
Yeah seeing a guy complaining about how bad the economy is, and that he can barely feed his family while he checks out what's Hot or Not on his new iPad.
"Experience" == being the current fashion, making products with a brand that makes you feel better about yourself. If you can't describe what distinguishes it, the distinction just isn't there. You're like a Pepsi loyalist who can't pick it out from the other brand in a blind test.
Many people actually like the walled garden.
That still doesn't make AOL a good product.
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Microsoft, meanwhile, is languishing in the shadows like Cinderella on the night of the ball.
Are you kidding me? Microsoft is like a wicked stepsister!
By then, computers will be exotic pieces of machinery only used by scientists and engineers. Everyone else will just automatically network through their black turtlenecks.