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Bullpie Journalism: Apple Executives are wearing watches

How bored are these so called journalists with their latests reports on Apple and watches. Apparently they are scraping the bottom to make news.

Look! Jony Ive is wearing watches. Well, he must be designing some sort of Apple Watch. Let’s call it “iWatch” and scoop everyone else.

News organization such as Bloomberg and Business Insider are racing to show who can publish poorly written articles about Apple and watches the most. Then came along 9 to 5 Mac with a gem like the following:

Apple executives and a long history with watches

Apparently Jony Ive is not the only Apple Executive who wears watch. A shocking discovery, isn’t it?

Dan Ricio, Bob Mansfield, Greg Joswiak and Phil Schiller also wear watches. That’s newsworthy, apparently. What’s next?

Tim Cook wears a watch? Then Apple must be making a watch.

Let’s not forget that Apple Executives drive cars, eat foods and wear clothes. Apple must be making cars, food products and clothes.

Someone should tell Ed Orcutt that Apple Executives are also producing CO2; they are wrecking the environment.

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Bloomberg’s Bullpie Journalism, You’ve gotta be kidding me!

Yet another death knell for journalism as we know it.

From Bloomberg:

Apple’s Planned ‘IWatch’ Could Be More Profitable Than TV

Let’s see what’s wrong with this piece of bullpie journalism.

First, the Apple TV set which should not be confused with Apple TV, has been rumored since early 2000’s. All the fake spy-photos from Apple pre-Macworld keynote were circulating around like venereal diseases. Then the cry-wolf-poster-boy with initials “J.C.” was making up the whole Apple Television set rumor in mid 2000’s. The rumor has gone full swing since the release of Walter Isaacson’s Steve Jobs biography, saying that Jobs “finally cracked it.”

Apple “accidentally” created a watch with the release of 6th generation iPod nano. As the first idea of iPod nano watchband was uttered, it became a hit. Rumors of Apple “smart watch” hit another high point as AppleInsider uncovered Apple’s patents that might be used in creating “iWatch”, a newly fabled Apple product.

Both Apple TV set and Apple iWatch are nothing but rumors; yet Bloomberg has the gall to run with the story. It’s all about imaginary products that could make imaginary revenues. All based on rumors.

Apple files a lot of patents and lots of them never made into real products. Lots of them take years before implemented into real products. Where’s the LCD Display has camera embedded in it?

 

What’s next?

The hypothetical Apple Car could make Apple a lot of hypothetical revenues?

Meatloaf is not amused

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GigaOM Guest Contributor, You’ve gotta be kidding me!

I can smell conflict of interest paired with jackassery on an article at GigaOM which I will not link here. The post is titled “Browsing the web on an iPad stinks–and Apple likes it that way” and written by a guest contributor who has a personal agenda. This particular GigaOM guest contributor is either clueless or shilling for his own company. Badmouthing mobile Safari while selling a native iOS app for web-content delivery.

For that this GigaOM guest contributor has a place in the litter box.

Shame on you GigaOM for publishing an advertisement disguised as a poorly written article.

You’ve got to be kidding me!

Meatloaf is not amused

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PET OTHER >PET<

I am currently using Nexus 4 as a Mobile Hotspot. For some reasons I found the power adapter packaging to be hilarious.

PET OTHER >PET<

Pet-Other-Pet

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Evernote resets user passwords after a hack attack

The Evernote team has been sending out emails to users regarding the hack attack. The Evernote also initiate a service-wide password reset.

Evernote’s Operations & Security team has discovered and blocked suspicious activity on the Evernote network that appears to have been a coordinated attempt to access secure areas of the Evernote Service.

As a precaution to protect your data, we have decided to implement a password reset. Please read below for details and instructions.In our security investigation, we have found no evidence that any of the content you store in Evernote was accessed, changed or lost. We also have no evidence that any payment information for Evernote Premium or Evernote Business customers was accessed.

The investigation has shown, however, that the individual(s) responsible were able to gain access to Evernote user information, which includes usernames, email addresses associated with Evernote accounts and encrypted passwords. Even though this information was accessed, the passwords stored by Evernote are protected by one-way encryption. (In technical terms, they are hashed and salted.)

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