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June 09, 2008
02:39 pm
Reporters are about as good as analysts
First it was a ridiculous report from the Dow Jones Newswire claiming that because the iPhone uses flash memory it must be getting ready for Flash content:
Now, the San Francisco Chronicle reports this:
Um, guys -- even a 10 year old knows that it doesn't upload web pages (per se), it downloads them.
If the news media is constantly riddled with this sort of stupid, idiotic errors in tech reporting, who can say what huge errors they're making when reporting, oh, politics and government?
First it was a ridiculous report from the Dow Jones Newswire claiming that because the iPhone uses flash memory it must be getting ready for Flash content:
Apple appears to be making room on the iPhone for flash memory, which means an end to Apple's standoff with Adobe (ADBE) that's kept iPhones from easily viewing a plethora of Internet videos.
Now, the San Francisco Chronicle reports this:
Um, guys -- even a 10 year old knows that it doesn't upload web pages (per se), it downloads them.
If the news media is constantly riddled with this sort of stupid, idiotic errors in tech reporting, who can say what huge errors they're making when reporting, oh, politics and government?
posted by Gene Cowan | category The War with the Customer
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