I agree with Rene Ritchie. What passes for tech reporting these days is often no more than misinformed drivel designed to get pageviews. What’s worse, it can cause harm to unsuspecting users.
Terrible reporting
I agree with Rene Ritchie. What passes for tech reporting these days is often no more than misinformed drivel designed to get pageviews. What’s worse, it can cause harm to unsuspecting users.
Have you seen iMore? Full of silly link bait articles.
Pot, meet Kettle.
Honestly, there has been improvement. Don’t get me wrong, some of the reporting is still terrible but it’s way better than the bs over “antenna-gate”; a problem that has affected every internal antenna ever but somehow became Apple’s fault.
Good reporting:
http://gizmodo.com/the-iphone-5s-motion-sensors-are-totally-screwed-up-1440286727
“it’s embarrassing”
To be totally fair, the gyroscope thing is real. I am typing this at the Apple Store now in my home town and every single genius with an iPhone 5s has this issue, and the brand new replacement they gave me for my 5s has the exact same problem. In fact it became worse. My old iPhone was off by 1 degree, now its off by 3. I can’t even use the panorama function because of it. All the geniuses got a tad frustrated because they are like me, huge apple Fanbois and this is not fun. It interferes with day to day usage. Jim can you PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE make a post on this and reach out to Gruber to make a post on this issue. Maybe because of your contacts we can get a better understanding of what is going on. The senior manager of the store was so frustrated he even gave me his card and said come back in 2 months for a brand new one because hopefully by then the bugs will be quashed. Jim PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE make a post on this. :On knees begging:. (this is not any sarcasm this is a legitimate plea to someone plugged into the community to possibly make a difference.)
Wow.. you talked to every single Apple Genius in your local Apple store? Excellent reporting sir, you should try for a job at Business Insider!
Uhh… I think the “pot, meet kettle” comment is a little unfair to iMore.
But I agree it’s odd to see a headline “Terrible reporting” here on the Loop. Let’s face it, this site’s lone asset is Dalrymple’s relationship with Apple PR. That goes away, and this site becomes worthless.
The writing here isn’t good (there’s a reason Macworld let Jim go and no one else picked him up, despite his relationship with Apple).. .just look at the very format of this article. Link, meager “me too” commment. That doesn’t add ANY value, yet here’s the post churning out the pageviews.
At least a “Yep” post adds some value and, yep, I’ll continue to read the Loop for those diamonds in the rough here.
Speaking of which… shouldn’t we be getting a “Yep” shortly as soon as someone else has the balls to post the Apple announcement date and Jim (via Apple PR) is allowed to confirm it?
Do you have a 5s? If not try looking at macrumors forums and actual apple support forums, if you weren’t too busy being sardonic you would have read brand new replacement phone at apple store same issue…hmmm…nice try but thanks. Being a Fanboi doesn’t mean blind following. It means being loyal to a brand.
“I don’t think this site’s very good, but I’ll continue to read it anyway.”
Wow. Do they ever throw food down to you in that basement where you’re typing this?
lol at thinking Jim or Gruber would ever make a post about this. They’re too busy bashing anything anti-Apple and lately seem to have a hard-on for anyone downgrading the stock. This will be so buried they’d probably deny even ever hearing about it
I do have a 5s and it is a brilliant device. I don’t have any issues with my phone. It is the best phone I have ever owned in fact.
Just because a fraction of a percentage of iPhone 5s users might be experiencing an issue with their iPhone, doesn’t mean that everyone is experiencing issues. Being a fan of Apple does not have a morsel of anything to do with it!
PS: DId you really use ‘sardonic’ and ‘fanboi’ in the same sentence?
We are back to the days of “Apple sucks buy a PC” days. I remember when I was 18 years old how rude sales people were when you ask about Macs, I was always trying to help them understand they were wrong! Today I’m 39 and is the same attitude in Best buy, Radioshack and CompUsa/TigerDirect stores… This is what they throw: “Apple is not doing well, they stop innovating and their products are weak… If you want to go with a good phone get yourself an Android Phone” or my favorite: “The Surface is way better than the iPad, be wise with your money”
His argument has some merit. I don’t come for the clarity of writing (that’s daring fireball for me) or links about guitars, beards, Heineken, or CSS tutorials. And sometimes the link duplication between Loop and DF borders on comical.
Me, I come here because I enjoy the thoughtful comments and discussion on Apple and industry topics. (It’s a shame that this very value is disabled on iPhones, which the Loop treats as second-class web citizens.)
Not so. DF bashes that which deserves bashing. pointing out the idiocy of Wallstreet on Apple is completely fair game. And Gruber has and will will criticize Apple when warranted, which isn’t nearly as often as it’s competitors.
Agreed on that. Still read the occasional fandroider who cites it as an iPhone-only problem.
Aside from the pissy tone of his criticism and cheap shot at Jim, his argument also equates reporting with opinion, as though there isn’t a wide space where those two don’t overlap.
I’m going to take a wild guess that “Confused Reader” does not pay subscriber’s fees to The Loop, and yet feels entitled to damn it with faint praise.
My suggestion to him: go away and find another free site that suits you better.
so where’s the post about the broken sensors? as they say, proof is in the pudding
you have users above who are “on knees begging.” And it’s not an isolated incident..