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2010-01-14
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Originally Posted by Thor
They've got zero love for either company. Although both are spared from what seems to be the religious hatred they have for anything from Espoo.
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2010-01-14
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Originally Posted by chrisp7
Gizmodo isnt as Bad.. I love their personal opinions. and the givwe reason if they bash nokia..
Engadaget is peanuts compared to Gizmodo - Gizmodo is a bloody apple wankathon.
Engadget's LOVE to capacitive touch screens also gets on my nerves a lot..
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2010-01-14
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Originally Posted by rnb89
More like obsession with capacitive.
Gizmodo isnt as Bad.. I love their personal opinions. and the givwe reason if they bash nokia..
Engadget's LOVE to capacitive touch screens also gets on my nerves a lot..
Recently someone mentioned a CES shown Android powered Microwave oven.
The very first words out of Topolsky's mouth:
"Is it capacitive?"
As if it would be anything more then a completely useless and insane product so long as it had a capacitive screen.
And don't even ask how smug the editors sounded when they announced Nokia's capacitive enabled X6 handset.
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2010-01-15
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I don't get this craze with capacitive screens, yeh the multitouch is nice, but sometimes, if I couldn't use my stylus to click a small link on a page, it'd drive me crazy!
I'm looking forward to multi-touch resistive. And to keep this on topic, I remember seeing, quite some months ago, a video on engadget about such a tech that looked really impressive.
I'm looking forward to multi-touch resistive. And to keep this on topic, I remember seeing, quite some months ago, a video on engadget about such a tech that looked really impressive.
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2010-01-15
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I hate to come in and possibly counter this Engadget "hate" - but let's be honest. I think the biggest problem is that they are in the "business" of appealing to the more consumer variety type(s) moreso than anybody that's a member of here... for the most part.
I don't see as much of a Nokia hatred as you lot - I saw a serious (pre-Droid) Motorola hate to be honest. But the whole skew of them disliking Nokia based on the CES announcement - sorry... it sucked compared to just about everybody else. It was something that could have been wrapped up in a PowerPoint file presentation for the board of directors... not for gadget hungry CES goers that wanted more than numbers and facts that didn't equate to actual stuff they could ogle over.
Their perspective doesn't quite jive with this sites. But it's not hatred; they're catering to their (larger) readership. Look at the sales numbers of what they consider to be "sacred" and you'll see... that's what they appeal to in their writing.
But... I will say this. As much as the Nokia Maemo 5 fans are going on about what they like so much about the N900... it's not "all" that compared to what it could be. And that's not a comparison to anything else out there. I'm talking about how much room there is to grow and how that isn't being fully utilized yet. Let's hope that Maemo 5 is matured gracefully and fully before Maemo 6 comes in and Maemo 5 is kicked to the side like the other iterations of Maemo.
I know... I know. I say the unpopular things, but I'd rather offer the possibility that there is a different take on why they see things differently as here.
I don't see as much of a Nokia hatred as you lot - I saw a serious (pre-Droid) Motorola hate to be honest. But the whole skew of them disliking Nokia based on the CES announcement - sorry... it sucked compared to just about everybody else. It was something that could have been wrapped up in a PowerPoint file presentation for the board of directors... not for gadget hungry CES goers that wanted more than numbers and facts that didn't equate to actual stuff they could ogle over.
Their perspective doesn't quite jive with this sites. But it's not hatred; they're catering to their (larger) readership. Look at the sales numbers of what they consider to be "sacred" and you'll see... that's what they appeal to in their writing.
But... I will say this. As much as the Nokia Maemo 5 fans are going on about what they like so much about the N900... it's not "all" that compared to what it could be. And that's not a comparison to anything else out there. I'm talking about how much room there is to grow and how that isn't being fully utilized yet. Let's hope that Maemo 5 is matured gracefully and fully before Maemo 6 comes in and Maemo 5 is kicked to the side like the other iterations of Maemo.
I know... I know. I say the unpopular things, but I'd rather offer the possibility that there is a different take on why they see things differently as here.
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2010-01-15
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The thing that was to much for me is the review of the 1983 Sony Cd-player, how can they mange to put in apple propaganda there.
http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/15/1...hed-hindsight/
Can't they leave Apple for just a minute.
http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/15/1...hed-hindsight/
Can't they leave Apple for just a minute.
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2010-01-15
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Originally Posted by Icee
it must be a compatition in their office. we used to play a game like that on the helpdesk when i worked on it. you give someone a word and they have to find a way to say it in a sentence on their next phone call. the word molestorize isn't a nice one :/
The thing that was to much for me is the review of the 1983 Sony Cd-player, how can they mange to put in apple propaganda there.
http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/15/1...hed-hindsight/
Can't they leave Apple for just a minute.
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2010-01-15
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Originally Posted by gerbick
Its been said you can never go wrong appealing to the lowest common denominator. Engadget is most definitely following those words to a fault. Appealing to the drones is fine - just don't try and pass it off as tech news rather than opinion.
I hate to come in and possibly counter this Engadget "hate" - but let's be honest. I think the biggest problem is that they are in the "business" of appealing to the more consumer variety type(s) moreso than anybody that's a member of here... for the most part.
I don't see as much of a Nokia hatred as you lot - I saw a serious (pre-Droid) Motorola hate to be honest. But the whole skew of them disliking Nokia based on the CES announcement - sorry... it sucked compared to just about everybody else. It was something that could have been wrapped up in a PowerPoint file presentation for the board of directors... not for gadget hungry CES goers that wanted more than numbers and facts that didn't equate to actual stuff they could ogle over.
Their perspective doesn't quite jive with this sites. But it's not hatred; they're catering to their (larger) readership. Look at the sales numbers of what they consider to be "sacred" and you'll see... that's what they appeal to in their writing.
But... I will say this. As much as the Nokia Maemo 5 fans are going on about what they like so much about the N900... it's not "all" that compared to what it could be. And that's not a comparison to anything else out there. I'm talking about how much room there is to grow and how that isn't being fully utilized yet. Let's hope that Maemo 5 is matured gracefully and fully before Maemo 6 comes in and Maemo 5 is kicked to the side like the other iterations of Maemo.
I know... I know. I say the unpopular things, but I'd rather offer the possibility that there is a different take on why they see things differently as here.
Fox news does that kind of thing all the time by reporting on opinions as if they were news. Someone writes a book saying something and its suddenly a headline as if it was fact as opposed to the content of a book.
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2010-01-15
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Originally Posted by Bratag
Engadget getting compared to Fox News... that's low... ouch.
Its been said you can never go wrong appealing to the lowest common denominator. Engadget is most definitely following those words to a fault. Appealing to the drones is fine - just don't try and pass it off as tech news rather than opinion.
Fox news does that kind of thing all the time by reporting on opinions as if they were news. Someone writes a book saying something and its suddenly a headline as if it was fact as opposed to the content of a book.
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2010-01-15
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Originally Posted by gerbick
unpopular things ? you're too enamoured with your own opinion. Trying to be contrarian for the sake of being so. Irritating so Irritating. engadget.com is full of immature rubbish
I hate to come in and possibly counter this Engadget "hate" - but let's be honest. I think the biggest problem is that they are in the "business" of appealing to the more consumer variety type(s) moreso than anybody that's a member of here... for the most part.
I don't see as much of a Nokia hatred as you lot - I saw a serious (pre-Droid) Motorola hate to be honest. But the whole skew of them disliking Nokia based on the CES announcement - sorry... it sucked compared to just about everybody else. It was something that could have been wrapped up in a PowerPoint file presentation for the board of directors... not for gadget hungry CES goers that wanted more than numbers and facts that didn't equate to actual stuff they could ogle over.
Their perspective doesn't quite jive with this sites. But it's not hatred; they're catering to their (larger) readership. Look at the sales numbers of what they consider to be "sacred" and you'll see... that's what they appeal to in their writing.
But... I will say this. As much as the Nokia Maemo 5 fans are going on about what they like so much about the N900... it's not "all" that compared to what it could be. And that's not a comparison to anything else out there. I'm talking about how much room there is to grow and how that isn't being fully utilized yet. Let's hope that Maemo 5 is matured gracefully and fully before Maemo 6 comes in and Maemo 5 is kicked to the side like the other iterations of Maemo.
I know... I know. I say the unpopular things, but I'd rather offer the possibility that there is a different take on why they see things differently as here.
