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Jobs and his iPhone media conspiracy

Written by Young Bahamian

Today while browsing several of the leading online media properties I couldn’t help but notice all of the iPhone stories and reviews all coming out today as lead stories. I saw it on USA Today, then the New York Times so I though oh wow what a coincidence. Then I noticed another on MSNBC/Newsweek!

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Ok you may say ok it’s a slow news day, but on closer inspection look at how similar all of the articles/reviews are.

One, they all claim to be from someone who got a pre-release phone to test. In one case the MSNBC write brags about how he actually had Steve Jobs on the phone about some issue with the phone.

They all came out today, two days before the release of the iPhone.

Look at these similar titles and passages..

First

USA Today: “Apple's iPhone isn't perfect, but it's worthy of the hype”

New York Times: “The iPhone Matches Most of Its Hype”

Another similarity:
USA Today: “That's saying a lot. After months of hype, Apple has delivered a prodigy — a slender fashion phone, a slick iPod and an Internet experience unlike any before it on a mobile handset.”
New York Times: “The iPhone is revolutionary; it’s flawed. It’s substance; it’s style. It does things no phone has ever done before; it lacks features found even on the most basic phones”

Newsweek: “And there it is: one of the most hyped consumer products ever comes pretty close to justifying the bombast. Apple has a history of using cutting-edge technology, slick design and friendly software to break the common logjam in which our machines have the capability to perform certain tasks, but developers haven’t figured out how to make the experience easy, even pleasurable, for users.”

Another similarity:

USA Today: “Messages are easy to read. You can pinch to enlarge the text or any images included in the body of the mail. You can view and zoom in on Word, Excel, JPEG and PDF attachments but not edit them.”

New York Times: “E-mail is fantastic. Incoming messages are fully formatted, complete with graphics; you can even open (but not edit) Word, Excel and PDF documents.”

Newsweek: “The best thing about the way this handles e-mail is that the message content shows up vividly. It nicely manages JPEGs, HTML and PDFs. (The iPhone can also open Word and Excel attachments, though you can’t edit them.) “

I can go on and on but I wont, you read the articles and you tell me:

USA Today: http://www.usatoday.com/tech/columnist/edwardbaig/2007-06-26-iphone-review_N.htm

NYT: http://www.nytimes.com/2007/06/27/technology/circuits/27pogue.html?hp

MSNBC/NewsWeek: http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/19444948/site/newsweek/

Coincidence? Plagiarism? Or just a reworded version of Steve Jobs’ iPhone talking points memo issued along with every iPhone release?

You decide. Oh and what does this have to do with the Bahamas? Well we are just jealous because we can’t sign up for AT&T service here in Nassau, although the rumor is AT&T will buy BTC soon. Fingers crossed.

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mr confidon - ?????

Registered | 2007-07-07 00:57:09

AT&T wow really...that really sounds great, but is it healthy for the econmy? We all would like the fact of not only cheaper but faster and more dependable services, but are we ready to bite the bullet. we shouldn't subjigate our econmy tosuchaninvasion To be honest it is AT&T that is hosting BTC's current services, but come on you crawl before you walk. What the past governments have been doing were swan dives into an abyss, selling everything, not fair to this generation and even worste for those to come. Why am i sayin this, I dont know nothing else to do i guess cause everyone body knows everything i bet lol. Why not give cable Bahamas a chance or even Indigo create a better service competition i guess thats what there afraid of.Its funny how companies that are renting from the main provider, are gettin more business. Lets face it Btc GSM services suck, there interenet is ok when its on. Its not the the equipment is the people that hook um up.Its not the persons that hook um up itsthe persons that pay them too hook um up. Its no those persons either its the persons pushin those buttons. So in conclusion if all tha leads to services that suck then the button pushers suck thats right THE GOVERNMENT yep lets blame the government lol why not. They lie They steal They cant take there loses and cry lol there crying please give me another chance too mess the country up some more. I dotn trust um you shouldnt either, save save save and well be ok. humph the goons.

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