Comments on: iPhone OS Beta 5 Now Available, Kills Carrier File Switching

By: roberto

roberto — Tue, 12 May 2009 14:51:48 +0000

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By: Evilhomer

Evilhomer — Fri, 08 May 2009 18:53:23 +0000

This really depends on whether the author is “Reporting” or “Editorializing”. Reporting is based on the presentation of facts from either first hand knowledge or credible sources. Editorializing allows for conjecture and opinions and should not be confused with fact based reporting. Same goes for talk show hosts.

That’s the problem with most of this “blogging” nation is that anyone with a few bucks for a website can call themselves a reporter even though they have no idea how to actually be a journalist. I see this sort of thing all over the web and it’s sickening.

I agree with the other posters. Keep your theories to yourself or make sure that you don’t publish your articles as news instead of editorials.

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By: BDI

BDI — Thu, 07 May 2009 16:44:17 +0000

I too was going to rip the article apart, but the two previous commenters did a masterful job dissecting the drivel contained in this ‘article.’

BDI

By: Gazoobee

Gazoobee — Thu, 07 May 2009 15:00:03 +0000

Dude, journalism is not just “making stuff up” nor is it just stating a lot of stuff you have no evidence to support. If you use your “journalistic voice” and say something like “this probably means that,” even though you don’t back it up people will assume that you have the evidence to back it up somewhere but are keeping it back because of journalistic principles etc.

In fact you have no basis for anything you are saying here. This quote in particular:

“… Apple looks to have pushed out an early release specifically to stop users from fooling around with hacked .IPCC files, and given the odd timing of the release, probably at the insistence of AT&T and/or others of their carrier partners. …”

Is complete BS. You don’t know anything about development cycles and software houses if you think that a slight deviation from an *unannounced* and *informal* schedule necessarily means that the intent was to “stop users from fooling around.” When you add “probably at the insistence of (AT&T)” your just being ridiculous.

Sure, these things are possible, but you either have to have some *basis* for stating them, or you should leave that journalist voice behind and phrase the article as what it really is, which is a random opinion of YOU, based on nothing but what YOU THINK. A simple, “I think the evil AT&T might be the cause …” would cover your ass because it’s then clear that this is just some random thought of yours, not a fact that you are passing on.

I know I harp on your stuff a lot, but you literally have no idea how to write a proper article. You pretend that you are some kind of serious reporter when all your doing is regurgitating rumours you heard. Pick a side dude.

Either your a journalist and you should start thinking of writing more responsibly and doing some research, or your just an opinionated individual with “something to say.” Either is fine, but pretending your some kind of serious journalist instead of just stating your opinion like any commenter on a blog, is getting a bit old IMO.

By: Bas

Bas — Thu, 07 May 2009 14:15:33 +0000

“This also seems to indicated that the beta pool is large enough that unauthorized MMS and tethering usage was actually having a significant effect on carriers.” This is not a conclusion that you can draw, as it is a premise on which your conclusion rests that Apple updated the iphone os primarily to kill MMS and tethering. You cannot use a statement as premise for a conclusion, and then derive from the conclusion your original statement. It is called circular reasoning.