No.
Just the same low standards as they expect of Obama.
When problems come up, just cover it up if you can. If not, then just call people racist (Apple haters), and try to find someway to show how everyone else supposedly have this issue, like Dems constantly refer to Bush to explain away an Obama screw-up.
Your comparison still does not hold water, VanDeKoik. You’re apparently upset because I posted a link to a video holding some other manufacturer to the same high standard to which Apple is being held. What has been covered up regarding Apple? It gets blasted all over the media. Other large “phablet” phones have the same problem. None of them have received anywhere near the publicity, to the point that it’s unknown. Why is that? Is it that no one cares, or was it swept under the rug?
I could just as easily flip around what you’re saying by pointing out that your side of the argument is akin to the left wing ignoring and covering up the same behavior in their candidates but making the same behavior by a conservative into a pressing national issue.
“Antennagate”? It was shown that any cellphone not in a case of that era that was gripped in the same fashion would suffer similar signal attenuation (some more, some less). It wasn’t treated a big deal for any other phone, but we were treated to non-stop coverage about the issue on the iPhone 4. Because, Apple.
Now with “Bendgate” (or whatever), we see that why yes, any “phablet” subjected to the same kind of stress will show some bending, and in fact some other models suffered worse damage (with screen breakage, for example). But we get bombarded with images of the same handful of iPhones that show the problem. Because, Apple.
Now, in the case of the antenna issue, Apple did a mea cupla more or less to just put the bad PR cycle to rest. But they also designed future phones with an antenna redesigned to avoid the problem in the future. I imagine that they’ll look at these few, isolated incidents of bending and see if future designs can be altered to reinforce the (relative) weak point.
So why does only Apple get the bad press for “issues” that affect their competitors as well? For one, a not-insignificant portion of the tech press is “in bed” with Apple’s competitors, often not disclosing their ties to these competitors when writing negative articles about Apple. Because of Apple’s large market cap, they’re also a target for the stock manipulators at Forbes, Motley Fool, Seeking Alpha, and the like. And finally, as one of the more recognizable and popular brands, an anti-Apple headline draws hits, not in small part from Apple haters who love reveling in bad news for Apple despite such bad news applying equally to their favored brand.