Published May 12, 2010
Colleague Wen Stephenson (previously senior producer of On Point) writes a well-rounded summary of the barrage of bad Apple press:
If you’ve followed the Apple coverage closely, you may have detected two distinct story lines. In the first and dominant one, emanating largely (though not exclusively) from mainstream media types, Apple is a breathlessly watched media-business story, on which rides the fate of the very media covering it. In the second, coming mainly from the blogosphere’s techno-intelligentsia, it’s a more profound story of technology and ideology — on which rides nothing less than the freedom of the Internet and the very meaning and future of the digital revolution.
At least it’s another excuse to talk about the lost/stolen iPhone prototype, a story I’m absolutely obsessed with.