Anti-Apple News Popular?

August 21, 2006

Has anyone else noticed that when Apple does something wrong, the coverage of the stories tend to be reported by twice as many places that report Apple “good news”? Maybe it’s just me, but there seems to be a lot of ill feelings towards Apple’s recent success and I tend to see a lot of “nyah-nyah” stories around. I realize that Apple may bring some of this on themselves with their “arrogant” marketing (which really works), but that doesn’t change the rabid migration towards Apple “defects”.

Answer me this, of the following companies, which one have you heard the most about in the past 3 - 6 months:

- Dell and their exploding laptops
- HP and…
- Sony and their… uhh Vaios?
- AOL and their crumblage
- Apple and their overheating Macbook/Macbook Pros, Macbook mooing, Mac OS X Viruses, Lack of announcements at a developer’s conference..and…

I tend to think that its my list of sites in my RSS aggregator (of which, only 5 are apple sites), but I also think its a burning desire of all those “annoyed” by Apple’s popularity. What say ye?