Comments on: Stop the presses: Apple waved an olive branch

By: cynik, Switzerland

cynik, Switzerland — Thu, 02 Oct 2008 09:20:04 +0000

"I think this playground needs a monitor."

That seems a fairly popular sentiment across society, but I'm not convinced it is right.

After all, this playground DOES HAVE a monitor. The editor. He says "get more hits". "Sell more entertainment, call it news."

And so, we have this style of blog.

And, for precisely the same reasons, this style of market.

If the rescue package doesn't work, then where is America?

Well, the people who caused the crash will be compensated, and the crash will still happen. So everyone who caused it and profited by it will be insured and compensated by all those who suffer from it.

I think that a rescue package has got to have really clear terms and outcomes that are fair: If the taxpayer pays for a rescue and it doesn't work, the everyone who voted for it gets sent to the electric chair for treason.

By: Murphy, Charlotte, NC

Murphy, Charlotte, NC — Thu, 02 Oct 2008 03:52:05 +0000

So you wrote about them writing about what wasn't important to write about? Hmmm. -MurphyMac.com

By: Byron Kim, San Francisco, CA

Byron Kim, San Francisco, CA — Thu, 02 Oct 2008 01:55:07 +0000

What is really sad is the blurring of the line between personal opinion and what is considered news or jounalism. There seems to be an awful lot of whining and spewing of ungrounded facts on the net these days and it seems that judgment of what is newsworthy has more to do with the mob has to say, whether it's based on truth or not. And unfortunately a lot of people in our culture equate mob speak to the truth. It doesnt help that journists play along since it results in more hits… i.e. More clout and more advertising $$. I think this playground needs a monitor.

By: Charanis Chiu HK

Charanis Chiu HK — Thu, 02 Oct 2008 01:52:03 +0000

APPLE totally has the right and power to control and select softwares create by third parties developers that use in iPhone and iPhone 3G.

By: Pete Mitchell, Ventura, CA

Pete Mitchell, Ventura, CA — Wed, 01 Oct 2008 22:03:35 +0000

The word "pedantic" comes to mind . . . gotta love those lil' developers . . .

By: Casey Dill, Rochester, NY

Casey Dill, Rochester, NY — Wed, 01 Oct 2008 22:03:31 +0000

Well, I hate to teach you journalism, but a guy doing reviews about only about Apple doesn't write about the stock market, the stock market guy does. So of course in the world of high-tech journalism, the high-tech journalists are going to write about tech.

And as to the everyone blogger weighing in on it. Well people write about something that has meaning to them. Also, that's what it takes to have an affect.

God I wish google would remove you tool bloggers from the real news.