eliangonzal

So...you are tech writers who were woefully unprepared (not merely underprepared) to attend a tech convention with an opinion that it's the entire USB-C thing that lacks, not your unpreparedness.

Got it. 

>"Every company is guilty of building a narrative of how you want the world to work," Donovan said...

That would include snowing consumers into thinking the AT&T network is capable of what it pretends to be delivering. A relative years ago who worked at an Apple Store with business customers (when AT&T was the sole carrier of the iPhone) pointedly told me that AT&T would **never** be able to handle the traffic for what it promised because it was far too behind. He also said that they would merely claim something to be new and to be on top of that so as to appear ahead of the pack.

How prescient.

I do not doubt that America's fleecing (excuse me, "wireless") service companies all do the same, but the Donovan quite is particuarly irritating. 

noraa1138 said:

For better or worse, jailbreaking isn't nearly as necessary as it was in iOS' early days.

It was never necessary but for a negligible number of techie boyz who think every product revolves around them.

tylersdad said:

Yeah, it's frightening. Almost as frightening as standing up your own personal email server and conducting classified business on it. 

That no one can prove was ever hacked and most techie boyz keep pretending never happened before. (BTW, only three emails were ultimately considered classified, but don't let salient facts get in the way of this tired, played out and lonely talking point.)

The irony of the original post is that tech guys, as evidenced by the quoted individual, belong to a culture that gives in to very anti-democratic impulses and selective standards (called "situational morality" back in the day). You sneer at politicians who "don't get it" yet you won't participate in any meaningful way to elect those who do. And when having a great a deal of power in terms of how information is distributed, tech culture has completely failed in any social obligations, preferring to pawn that off on aforementioned politicos who "don't get it."

Tech culture is successful at theft, damage and insult. It can't offer any solutions because it can't be *bothered* to do so.

The comparison to Apple Music is faulty because Apple actually *likes* music and has made it an important component going all the way back the original iPod. News? Not so much.

Apple is a dilettante when it comes to news. It's just not that invested in sticking with it, but rather making great noises every six months or so to give the appearance of treating news like it does music. The original Newsstand was good that failed because Apple didn't care about it too much and it withered on the vine. Then we were all supposed to be wowed by Apple News which is just a big RSS feed whose biggest selling point was "how beautiful it looked." If you have an Apple News channel, you still need to use a browser to upload stories. There is no native app on macOS or iOS. Hell, you can't even *schedule* a story being posted. 

News outlets are right to be wary. Tech companies and news have proven to be oil and water, as you have a generation of young know-nothings who sneer at journalism and print media but insist they have the answer to save both (a topic that is now over a decade old with no end in sight.) And it seems to be eluding people (particularly techie boyz) that journalism is not only hard, but takes resources and goes far beyond mere political punditry. 

Otherwise, I'm fairly indifferent to Apple News.