Posts from — July 2007

Daniel Eran Dilger
Google for ‘Apple Scandal’ and the results are overwhelmingly related to options backdating. Those backdated options from 1997 – 2001 resulted in Apple taking an $84 million charge against operations, but continued to monopolize the headlines for months with the panic that Steve Jobs might go to jail and Apple might be delisted from the NASDAQ stock exchange.

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Daniel Eran Dilger
What says scandal more than covering up outright fraud with secret, illicit favors? And what could be more fake than to mix Apple up into a scandal that the it has nothing to do with? Let’s ask the San Jose Mercury News, a paper that enjoys dancing on the boundary of libel whenever Apple is involved.
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Daniel Eran Dilger
While the previous fake Apple scandal advanced the myth that Apple’s first generations of hardware releases are unusually problematic, the seventh fake scandal charges that all Apple hardware is bad, and only sells due to excessive advertising and a blind pool of devoted fans who don’t know any better. The best answer to these claims is look at Microsoft’s own hardware efforts and the comments made by Windows Enthusiasts.

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Daniel Eran Dilger
While the fake Apple scandals so far have all been invented for the iPhone, the sixth is trotted out for nearly every Apple product release. It’s the warning to not buy the first version of anything from Apple, because it’s always plagued with all manner of problems. But is that true?
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Daniel Eran Dilger
Fake Apple Scandals keep getting more bizarre. The fifth says that the iPhone’s launch greatly underwhelmed. It tries to leverage the myth that everyone–including Apple–expected the iPhone to sell a million units in the opening weekend. The truth is more spectacular than the faked disappointment however.
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Daniel Eran Dilger
The fourth fake Apple scandal was so over the top I’d planned to reserve it for number ten, but I simply couldn’t contain this crowning achievement of scandal invention any longer.
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Daniel Eran Dilger
Our dizzying ride through invented iPhone scandals is just getting started. The third scandal was presented by a competitor, but when interest in the scandal waned, it was repeatedly resurrected by its paid-to-say tools. The clincher is that the scandal mongers haven’t lined up their own dots, which point to a marginally interesting, but profitable company they love to love.
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Daniel Eran Dilger
It isn’t just tech analysts who have jumped on invented iPhone scandals. The second scandal managed–as many scandals do–to erupt within the US Congress.
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Daniel Eran Dilger
The tech analysts beholden to Microsoft have jumped at the prospect of creating a toxic party tray to welcome Apple’s entry into mobiles, stopping only to ask how high publishers want them to pile the phony iPhone bologna.

Here is the first of ten fake scandals they’ve splashed across headlines and blog postings to create a wave of iPhone misinformation in their cultish attempts to shore up support behind the faltering, embarrassing mobile platforms they’re paid to make excuses for.

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Daniel Eran Dilger
One of the most important features in making a mobile useful is its ability to sync with outside data. Here’s what the iPhone can and can’t do relative to:

• syncing via USB with a desktop computer.
• syncing wirelessly over WiFi or Bluetooth to a desktop or other device.
• syncing over the air directly with Internet servers.

Each type of sync mechanism involves different types of content: data, documents, and media files. The iPhone’s features are promised to improve via software updates, but this article focuses on the iPhone’s existing sync features, and provides comparisons to how other mobile devices work.

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