Comments on: Take Rumors and Hype With a Grain of Salt http://gigaom.com/2010/01/29/take-rumors-and-hype-with-a-grain-of-salt/ Wed, 22 May 2013 04:40:49 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: cc http://gigaom.com/2010/01/29/take-rumors-and-hype-with-a-grain-of-salt/#comment-380392 Sun, 31 Jan 2010 06:51:21 +0000 http://theappleblog.com/?p=40213#comment-380392 Your 100% correct.

There is no need to have EVERY bell and whistle on it if the competition has not even left the starting gate!

All the naysayers wanted it priced around 1000 bucks.
They were totally bummed to see the final price!

]]> By: johnny http://gigaom.com/2010/01/29/take-rumors-and-hype-with-a-grain-of-salt/#comment-380391 Sat, 30 Jan 2010 05:35:33 +0000 http://theappleblog.com/?p=40213#comment-380391 ahh. some geek out there needs to figure out how to run osx on that thing

]]> By: jafco http://gigaom.com/2010/01/29/take-rumors-and-hype-with-a-grain-of-salt/#comment-380390 Sat, 30 Jan 2010 01:24:29 +0000 http://theappleblog.com/?p=40213#comment-380390 Excellent post. Exactly how I feel. You’ll have two of three – iPod touch, iPhone and iPad. The phone is the only place where one might buy a product other than Apple.

You will also have a “big” computer at home to do stuff that the “little guys” can’t. That might be Apple or other, but I have a sneaking suspicion that there are going to be some really neat things that are “Apple only”.

]]> By: Champs http://gigaom.com/2010/01/29/take-rumors-and-hype-with-a-grain-of-salt/#comment-380389 Fri, 29 Jan 2010 22:22:32 +0000 http://theappleblog.com/?p=40213#comment-380389 They already make nice “email checker” computers in a small form factor with the same kind of battery life and integrated features at a lower price point with your choice of mobile or desktop OSes. The iPad is an iPod touch for the Jitterbug crowd.

]]> By: adamjackson http://gigaom.com/2010/01/29/take-rumors-and-hype-with-a-grain-of-salt/#comment-380388 Fri, 29 Jan 2010 21:49:09 +0000 http://theappleblog.com/?p=40213#comment-380388 Hey Nick. Trust me, I’ve been reading and clicking through to rumor posts for years! I know the numbers game. When I broke the news of Adobe CS4 on my old tech blog it was a huge day for readership but it’s kind of like a gossip magazine, your readership changes a bit into a fickle bunch and doing as Macworld.com and DaringFireball does and giving analysis and answer the “why & how” is much more enjoyable to the reader. It also means more rumor sites will link to you because you did the work.

Normally, rumors don’t matter. I read them, laugh and comment then move on. The tablet fiasco just killed me. It made me rethink why I even read apple related blogs. I had rumor overload and didn’t like it.

I think now that things are leveling out, it’s fine to go back to how things were (normal rumor coverage) but I hope the blogs won’t redo this kind of coverage ever again because tablet coverage got totally out of hand.

iPhone coverage from January ’07 to June ’07 was similar. Every day speculating on pricing, plans, data coverage, battery life, the mysterious 11th application (turned out to be youtube) and more. Gizmodo’s coverage of the iPhone back then drove me to insanity and I didn’t think that level of coverage from apple blogs would ever be beat but the tablet brought on a wave of speculation.

Again you guys do a great job. i’m still a fan.

]]> By: adamjackson http://gigaom.com/2010/01/29/take-rumors-and-hype-with-a-grain-of-salt/#comment-380387 Fri, 29 Jan 2010 21:27:45 +0000 http://theappleblog.com/?p=40213#comment-380387 Thanks Josh. Like I said, you’d be the only blog that didn’t post rumors. I’m not complaining and I’m far from giving up on TAB entirely because even WSJ and NYTIMES publishes tech rumors and they have journalistic standards far beyond the GigaOm network.

so yeah, I’m not really complaining, just making a point. Thanks for the reply.

]]> By: Nick Santilli http://gigaom.com/2010/01/29/take-rumors-and-hype-with-a-grain-of-salt/#comment-380386 Fri, 29 Jan 2010 21:27:25 +0000 http://theappleblog.com/?p=40213#comment-380386 Agreed Adam. It’s actually something that we’ve discussed recently as a group, with our editor. But I think it’s 2 issues – propagating and getting all wrapped up in the rumors, and reporting new findings with analysis. I think we want to go more toward the latter.

But let’s face it, Apple is a master of secrecy, and so rumors and assumptions and the lot make up for a large bit of what’s to talk about. I’m just saying, it’s all well and good to read and talk about this stuff, but recognize that it’s nothing but a bunch of geeky ‘what-ifs’, and hanging your hat on them may lessen the appeal one day when a device actually comes to light.

]]> By: Josh Pigford http://gigaom.com/2010/01/29/take-rumors-and-hype-with-a-grain-of-salt/#comment-380385 Fri, 29 Jan 2010 21:22:04 +0000 http://theappleblog.com/?p=40213#comment-380385 You’ve gotta remember that what makes TAB great is the fact that we’ve got two dozen writers who think for themselves. There’s no way on earth we can publish articles that will appeal to 100% of the Apple crowd. Even if you write for an extremely focused niche, you’ll still tick off people along the way. That’s life.

While we’ve certainly got a nice percentage of readers who would be just fine if we never published anything rumor-related, there’s just as many (actually, quite a bit more) who do like to hear the rumors.

I’m with you in that I was completely sick of the tablet rumors, but at the same time you’ve gotta remember that this is a product that has had people throwing rumors around about for years. Probably one of if not the most hyped product in Apple’s history.

So, I say all of that as somewhat of an apology as I completely understand where you’re coming from, but also to try to give you some perspective of where we’re coming from and why we ended up publishing so much about a product that may not have even existed.

]]> By: adamjackson http://gigaom.com/2010/01/29/take-rumors-and-hype-with-a-grain-of-salt/#comment-380384 Fri, 29 Jan 2010 19:34:06 +0000 http://theappleblog.com/?p=40213#comment-380384 It’s difficult to downplay rumors and hype when TAB is feeding into them.

Sure, you’d be the only blog that didn’t participate in the BS hype machine but you’d earn a tremendous amount of respect from me in the process (yeah, I know I’m only one guy).

It’s just that TAB is a great blog. You guys post informative posts and the 7×7 feature with pure speculation got very old. I subscribe to 15 tech RSS feeds. Searching for tablet in netnewswire yields 400 results from December 15th to january 27th.

That’s 27 posts per blog in one month about a device before it had even come out!

Most of the posts were wrong. Most of them I didn’t even bother reading and it’s hard to tell us to take these with a grain of salt when TAB contributed all of these tablet related posts.

http://grab.by/23TO

That’s a crap load of posts for a device that hadn’t even come out yet.

]]> By: Rudy http://gigaom.com/2010/01/29/take-rumors-and-hype-with-a-grain-of-salt/#comment-380383 Fri, 29 Jan 2010 18:05:53 +0000 http://theappleblog.com/?p=40213#comment-380383 Please, do a bit of surfing, and read the reactions on all those blogs just after the launch of the iPod, and after the launch of the iPhone. Same words: no good, no this and that, uninteresting, Jobs missed it… Same blogs, that six months later were all over the moon. You know what? It’s happening again.
The only thing I noticed: I heard colleagues, who know very little about computerstuff, talk about ‘this device they saw on tele’ (the iPad). One remark returned every time: I want one. I’m going to buy one. ‘Cause it fits my needs exactly’. People who don’t even understand the word ‘flash’.
I’m buying one. So will they – people who never used a Mac before.
And again: it’s about the software! Just keep an eye on those Developers. We will be amazed by the time the iPad arrives!

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