Seems Ryan Block at Engadget can’t take somebody calling BS on his “trusted sources” - or he doesn’t want to lose site views because people find out that he has a penchant for sensationalist pieces. Below, submitted for your approval, is the personal response I got to a comment I left on Engadget, before it seems that he deleted it.
Now THAT is professional journal–I mean, blog writing.
from Ryan Block
to danielcwarshaw@gmail.com
date Jun 23, 2007 3:19 PM
subject Sorry, wrong
Actually, no, my last “trusted source” got it completely right:
http://www.engadget.com/2007/06/03/iphone-release-date-june-29th/
As did this one http://www.engadget.com/2007/06/04/dell-xps-m1330-
performance-ultraportable-revealed/, and this one http://
www.engadget.com/2007/06/06/is-divx-working-on-hardware/, and this
http://www.engadget.com/2007/04/05/ati-stops-shipping-cablecard-
tuners-due-to-bugs-will-resume-soo/ and this http://www.engadget.com/
2007/03/20/xbox-360-elite-new-black-limited-edition-xbox-with-hdmi-
and-120gb-drive/ and so on… In fact, I’d wager we’ve been wrong
fewer times than any other publication in our space. That particular
instance was special, since it was a real memo that went out to real
Apple employees. If you want to distort the facts then feel free to
find another site to comment on.
Best, Ryan
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I’m admittedly curious which article you called shenanigans on, and what your comment was…
Hey Chris.
It was the article about the “trusted source” for the iPhone user experience. It was posted today.
I remarked about his last debacle about bad Apple press when he claimed to have a trusted source who knew about apparent additional Leopard and iPhone delays. It single-handedly caused a huge loss on Apple’s stock price (well okay, hyper reactive investers did) in one day, and his explanation was that he “had to take the chance”. He basically didn’t do responsible research before he posted his entry on Engadget.
I mentioned that I wanted to wait till more people had a chance to use it before I passed judgement, and I even said, explicitly, that “the keyboard may very well end up being crap, but I want to wait until it’s out”. I didn’t attack him personally, and I was pretty surprised that one of Engadget’s top writers took the time to personally respond and delete comments that questioned the authenticity of his sources.
What a monkey. I love it when people have essentially public comment sections and then have a problem when people leave comments. How old does a person have to be before he can take his lumps?
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