More nonsense from the Sunday Business Post
30/01/08 16:25
Watch out Rob Enderle...
As reported on many occasions by Mac Information, tech news accuracy isn't the SBP's strong point. Their reporting on Apple related stories is normally at best misrepresented, and at worst, hopelessly inaccrate. This weekend is no exception:
"Apple's iPhone may not launch in Ireland until April 'at the earliest' Apple sources [sic] have told Computers in Business."
Now for a start, if anyone in Apple had told the SBP that the iPhone now won't be sold in Ireland until April, the said employee will be on the way out the door the various pieces of their shredded employment contract. If there is one thing we know bout Apple's launch dates, they are not a fact until they are officially announced, and any rumour, speculation, and imaginative theory from the SBP is entirely without substance.
The statement that the iPhone "will not now launch" until April is entirely fabricated to match the SBP's inaccurate speculation during 2007, that it would launch at the start of 2008. Having created a false piece of "fact" in previous articles, the SBP can now announce that this date has changed.
Lets be clear- there has been no announced date for the launch of the iPhone in Ireland. That's it. Similarly, there are no other dates for any other country. The only statement from Apple came in January 2007, when Steve Jobs said that Apple hoped to launch the iPhone in Asia in 2008. Next week's keynote at Macworld may change this, and they may choose to announce some future pans, but so far these are not public knowledge.
We suspect that the SBP's "Apple sources" are in fact some 19yr old guy in Carphone Warehouse. However, the utterances of the SBP's "Apple sources" are vague and certainly groundless. They are a speculative guess, not a launch date.
The SBP moves to declare that sales of the iPhone in Britain, France and Germany were "modest". Lets get this one straight- there have been no announced figures about sales in the UK, a healthy 70,000 were sold in France in the first month, and 10,000 were sold in Germany on the first day. They are the facts. Apple have set one target for the iPhone- 10 million sales by the end of 2008. Until we get closer to the end of the year we won't be able to judge whether or not they will reach this target.
Lastly, the article takes another gibe at the iPhone's features saying it has no 3G and a "weak camera". We are not sure what the SBP's agenda is. Almost every mention of the iPhone to date, especially those by editor Adrian Weckler, are derogatory and factually inaccurate. It does the newspaper no credit to have such poorly written articles which, in our experience, are littered with speculation and ill-researched facts. The SBP's "Computers in Business" magazine and its editor are slowly adopting "Rob Enderle" journalistic skills. Heaven help us all.
Simon Spence/2008
As reported on many occasions by Mac Information, tech news accuracy isn't the SBP's strong point. Their reporting on Apple related stories is normally at best misrepresented, and at worst, hopelessly inaccrate. This weekend is no exception:
"Apple's iPhone may not launch in Ireland until April 'at the earliest' Apple sources [sic] have told Computers in Business."
Now for a start, if anyone in Apple had told the SBP that the iPhone now won't be sold in Ireland until April, the said employee will be on the way out the door the various pieces of their shredded employment contract. If there is one thing we know bout Apple's launch dates, they are not a fact until they are officially announced, and any rumour, speculation, and imaginative theory from the SBP is entirely without substance.
The statement that the iPhone "will not now launch" until April is entirely fabricated to match the SBP's inaccurate speculation during 2007, that it would launch at the start of 2008. Having created a false piece of "fact" in previous articles, the SBP can now announce that this date has changed.
Lets be clear- there has been no announced date for the launch of the iPhone in Ireland. That's it. Similarly, there are no other dates for any other country. The only statement from Apple came in January 2007, when Steve Jobs said that Apple hoped to launch the iPhone in Asia in 2008. Next week's keynote at Macworld may change this, and they may choose to announce some future pans, but so far these are not public knowledge.
We suspect that the SBP's "Apple sources" are in fact some 19yr old guy in Carphone Warehouse. However, the utterances of the SBP's "Apple sources" are vague and certainly groundless. They are a speculative guess, not a launch date.
The SBP moves to declare that sales of the iPhone in Britain, France and Germany were "modest". Lets get this one straight- there have been no announced figures about sales in the UK, a healthy 70,000 were sold in France in the first month, and 10,000 were sold in Germany on the first day. They are the facts. Apple have set one target for the iPhone- 10 million sales by the end of 2008. Until we get closer to the end of the year we won't be able to judge whether or not they will reach this target.
Lastly, the article takes another gibe at the iPhone's features saying it has no 3G and a "weak camera". We are not sure what the SBP's agenda is. Almost every mention of the iPhone to date, especially those by editor Adrian Weckler, are derogatory and factually inaccurate. It does the newspaper no credit to have such poorly written articles which, in our experience, are littered with speculation and ill-researched facts. The SBP's "Computers in Business" magazine and its editor are slowly adopting "Rob Enderle" journalistic skills. Heaven help us all.
Simon Spence/2008
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