New Apple Column on Ars Technica 54
Steve Cowan writes "A new Apple column by Eric Bangeman, called Mac.Ars, debuted at Ars Technica. The first edition is an insightful, unbiased take on the current state of Apple and its offerings. The author discusses Panther, the G5, consumer hardware offerings, Premiere, Microsoft Office, the 'Switch' campaign, the effects of Apple's relatively recent purchases of products like Logic and Shake, Apple's position in the server market, and lots more." What's the fun of being a Mac pundit unless you are biased?
Re:Where's the beef? (Score:5, Interesting)
I was kind of hoping for more along the lines of Hannibal's amazing 970 guess work or the insightful analysis of the OSX Finder. There are plenty of other things open to analysis.
I'm hoping for more than Forum summaries that aren't too terribly novel or informative.
How about an analysis of the StartUpItems method of startup scripts and the still present bug that stop commands don't work at shutdown! How about an analysis of the upcoming UI in Panther along the lines of the guesswork Hannibal did to the 970 and was done for OSX as a review? I can name a half dozen such things that I could have written.
Apple isn't offering Panther or G5's yet. (Score:2, Interesting)
Just come out with the new powerbooks already. I'm probably just going to buy a notebook from PowerNotebooks [powernotebooks.com] instead since I've already got a 900MHz iBook and a G4 Tower. I was looking forward to a new powerbook. Oh well...
Yes, because ArsTechnica are *never* biased... (Score:4, Interesting)
So they follow it up with data from their server logs: And potentially, a huge chunk of that unknown value are Mac. They even state that themselves: So they begin doubting the poll results from their readers, so they check their server logs. They're then shocked to find that there really is (potentially) over 30 percent of their readers using Macs.
They then pull out their server's browser logs, which show that Safari is the second most used browser by their readers (unsurprisingly trailing Internet Explorer).
It took all this trawling though their logs, and yet they still wouldn't admit that the poll's results could be somewhat accurate. Perhaps this new section is Ars actually admitting, in a very backwards way, that many of their reader do actually use Macs. Not they they want to admit it.
Say what you will about other sites [daringfireball.net], but claiming that ArsTechnica are unbiased is a joke.
Re:Ars Technica IS Biased... (Score:3, Interesting)
Re:can't figure it out (Score:4, Interesting)
Surely it was good-natured ribbing. "Biased" isn't necessarily pejorative. Heck, "unbiased" often means "boring", so I'm pretty sure he was trying to pay me a complement.