manfrommars said: My beef as you put it, was me lamenting the fact that Apple Insider has created an impermeable bubble for Apple acolytes to revel in a grotesquely biased and slavishly devoted view of Apple as flawless and unrivaled. If Apple didn't build it, it's crap. If they did, it's perfect.
And yet their history, even on their main page without delving into their archive, includes negative articles about Apple and positive articles about other companies.
Your hyper-sensitivity is manifest in your assumption that I'm attacking Apple, and consequently you adopt a mindlessly defensive position.
And yet you're the one who is complaining about a reality that doesn't exist.
You're really that upset because AI reported on an article from Bloomberg? Have you not noticed that AI will report pros and cons about Apple from an unlimited number of sources, often with articles within the same day that conflict with other sources? If you've ever read the site you'd have noticed this, so it seems clear that you just have a beef with AI or any story that is pro-Apple. So why so much animosity toward Apple? Why not take issue with Foxconn for have higher profits for the 4th quarter or for Bloomberg for writing an article about it?
The Bloomberg article linked to in the OP, and which Soli was referring to, did indicate that Foxconn had higher profits in the 4th quarter.
The article you are linking to is from a couple days ago, before Foxconn released results for 2016 (and thus before we could figure out what Foxconn's net income for the fourth quarter was). At that time Foxconn was expected to report results that would mean a YoY (though not QoQ) decline in profits for the 4th quarter. That's why a significant increase was news that a number of sources reported on. We already knew that Foxconn's revenues had declined for 2016 because it reports revenues monthly.
At any rate, the article that Soli referred to does indicate what Soli suggests.
Not that Apple Insider was ever journalism, but this obsequious adherence to promoting Apple's image is insidious. This site has gone from an interesting and sometimes intelligent forum for a group with common tech interests, to a place pervaded by its dogmatic fixation with depicting Apple as god-like perfection. It's a sad little bubble of militant fanbois for whom even the most oblique criticism of Apple is denounced as trolling, or dismissed as (at best) irrelevant and (at worst) conspiratorial. The Apple users I grew up with shudder at the Orwellian purification of thought demanded by present-day Apple users. You've taken "think different" and made it "think nice about Apple." Fake news items like this are an embarrassment, and a symptom of groupthink and intellectual bankruptcy.
For everyone is bias, who could be really totally objective these days? Whatever your claim is, it works both way, because they are plenty who think (and that is including you) anything pro Apple is a symptom of intellectual bankruptcy (quoting you) and anything, including false criticism, anti Apple is a perfect truth and anyone who against those have "dogmatic fixation with depicting Apple as god-like perfection." It is sad indeed, but it depends on which side you are at. And frankly, I am just sick of people like you who think you are above the so-called "militant fanbois".
Not that Apple Insider was ever journalism, but this obsequious adherence to promoting Apple's image is insidious. This site has gone from an interesting and sometimes intelligent forum for a group with common tech interests, to a place pervaded by its dogmatic fixation with depicting Apple as god-like perfection. It's a sad little bubble of militant fanbois for whom even the most oblique criticism of Apple is denounced as trolling, or dismissed as (at best) irrelevant and (at worst) conspiratorial. The Apple users I grew up with shudder at the Orwellian purification of thought demanded by present-day Apple users. You've taken "think different" and made it "think nice about Apple." Fake news items like this are an embarrassment, and a symptom of groupthink and intellectual bankruptcy.
I'm going to give you 10 points for using at least 15 words and phrases that your fellow trolls would never understand!
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And yet you're the one who is complaining about a reality that doesn't exist.
The article you are linking to is from a couple days ago, before Foxconn released results for 2016 (and thus before we could figure out what Foxconn's net income for the fourth quarter was). At that time Foxconn was expected to report results that would mean a YoY (though not QoQ) decline in profits for the 4th quarter. That's why a significant increase was news that a number of sources reported on. We already knew that Foxconn's revenues had declined for 2016 because it reports revenues monthly.
At any rate, the article that Soli referred to does indicate what Soli suggests.
I'm going to give you 10 points for using at least 15 words and phrases that your fellow trolls would never understand!