Great, FR can go on just great without the endless advertising, right?
A couple of points:I am not promoting the idea that Apple is infallible, and it has joined the regrettable chorus of opposition to religious freedom which inheres in “gay rights” which is seen in far too many other quarters as well. I am even considering disposing of my (significant, for me) holding of AAPL over the issue. But the fact is that AAPL has in the past couple of decades been getting things right. First by switching to Unix, which is inherently more robust than the OSes which are designed to naively trust every input because it was assumed that the user had control of the inputs. Came the Internet, and that assumption was silly. Even before that, “sneaker net” transmission of viruses was a problem. AAPL then proceeded to take over the music player market with its iPod, the smart phone market (at least, the profit in making the smart phone), the tablet, and now, seemingly, the smart watch.
- there has in fact been a surge of Apple posts recently. That reflects the announcement and now the release of a new category of Apple product, but also a surge in anti-Apple propaganda, some of it - Cook-inspired - actually being accurate.
- It is a continual refrain, unrelated to Apple in particular, that “the media” are unremittingly negative. Well, guess what! in a capitalist nation, good news tends to come in the form of claims that some product - often but not always actually new - is “the greatest thing since sliced bread.”
But guess who makes those claims, and actually pays to have those claims publicized. Why, producers buying advertising space, that is who. And just as we have been learning, painfully and astonishingly slowly, that journalism is left-wing propaganda even when it is reporting the truth (because they don’t tell the whole truth, and “half the truth is often a great lie”), we know that advertising has to be discounted almost as much as journalism does.
Given that this forum did not exist before the advent of modern digital technology, and could not exist without it, the progress of consumer digital technology hardly seems to be inherently outside the range of interest of its participants. IMHO.