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Jim's Respose: If you had to do any kind of pre-release testing for anyone, you'd be forced to write your own article of the test results. I don't think you could do it! You are only good at copying and pasting what everyone else wrote.

I'm not suggesting that Phil is taking under the table payments from some third party outside of Fortune/CNN/Time Warner.

I'm suggesting that Phil's jobat Fortune/CNN/TimeWarner is to write negative articles about Apple and to pass it on as Apple News.

"ex ped: Sore? Not at all. I’ve been in business of dealing with Apple on “exclusive” pre-releases and am happy to be out of it. –Philip Elmer-DeWitt"

As Philip has hinted at, he used to be one of those guys like the ones that wrote the reviews that had to have a positive spin on what they wrote about, but is "happy to be out of it."

So what do we have with APPLE 2.0? Mac news from outside the reality distortion field. What does that mean? It suggests to me that Philip believes everybody having anything to do with Mac is in a reality distortion field except "news" Philip writes about?

I won't hide who I am. I am a Mac fan and shareholder, so I am biased towards Apple. I go to CNN to get my news or at least some of it. I go to the Money section and look up Apple (AAPL) and it lists their ticker and under it it lists all of the News related to Apple. Just about every day there is a story from Apple 2.0 about Apple. The average person would click on that link and expect some sort of unbiased news about Apple good or bad.

After reading every single article from Philip in the last year I have come to the conclusion that Philip really doesn't like Apple at all and he doesn't hide that fact very well.

Even this article that seems like it is a positive story about Apple with the glowing reviews, but Philip starts off by basically saying "These guys are all paid to write nice things about Apple therefore their reviews are meaningless, but here they are, but I won't get into it."

Jim, as Philip's editor it is your job to make sure he does his job. Do you mind telling me what his job is? If you respond it will probably be to tell me his job is to write news articles about Apple. In my view, 99.9% of his articles have a negative spin on them, so it would appear from the outside that Philip's job is to write negative things about Apple.

In my view this site isn't News. It is an Apple blog from somebody that doesn't like Apple and paid for by Fortune/CNN/Time Warner.

I'll bet you you are not one.

Sore are we?

ex ped: Sore? Not at all. I've been in business of dealing with Apple on "exclusive" pre-releases and am happy to be out of it. –Philip Elmer-DeWitt

The only thing you wrote in this whole article Elmer was the preface telling everybody that all of these nice reviews are by people paid by Apple to write nice things or they won't get paid by Apple somehow making their reviews null and void.

My question to you Elmer is, are you paid to write negative things about Apple or you don't get paid?

I've already asked this question before, I know, but I don't ever seem to get an answer from you or my post is deleted. A simple yes or know would suffice.

While that is technicality true. Considering the fact that mac hardware can run windows natively and "PC" hardware can run Mac OS natively it makes them the same in my book. Yes I know you have to tweak Mac OS because you have to get around Apple's protection that Steve puts in to prevent you from installing Mac OS on non-Mac hardware. That and drivers are the only things that stops you from running Mac OS on a "PC".

That's because If M$ adds them it's considered anti-completive.

No, it wouldn't. Starting with the fact that they don't have BIOS in firmware, they use EFI.