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Geek Culture / Blatant Bias - URG

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Lemonade
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Posted: 10th Jun 2010 10:40
Engadget recently posted an article that contained a comparison between the iPhone 4 and the EVO 4G. I thought it was very fair and balanced (for once). I guess they thought so too.

They deleted it. This type of thing really annoys me. Popsci, Engadget, and Gizmodo all love Apple! It wouldn't be a problem if they kept that love to themselves, but posting a gazillion "iPad modded to fit in cuboard" articles gets on my nerves.

Here's the Google cache page of the article:

http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8&q=cache:http://www.engadget.com/2010/06/09/iphone-or-evo-which-one-should-you-get/

This image sums it all up:



David R
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Posted: 10th Jun 2010 10:48
You're saying they love Apple and 3/4 of the articles in that image are bad or mockery?

You have a strange definition of 'love' If anything, Gizmodo are sulking after not being invited to WWDC so I'd expect the complete opposite.

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Lemonade
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Posted: 10th Jun 2010 10:51 Edited at: 10th Jun 2010 11:15
No, they devote a ton of their attention to Apple.

And I think they enjoy the money from article clicks too much to give up on Apple news anyway.

Xarshi
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Posted: 10th Jun 2010 22:17
Whether you are aware of this post or not, I am unsure, but they commented on it themselves. And they had a very logical reason for taking it off apparently.

http://www.engadget.com/2010/06/10/conspiracy-theory-what-happened-to-the-evo-4g-vs-iphone-4-post/

Lemonade
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Posted: 10th Jun 2010 22:28
Yeah, they just posted that. I still believe that the original article was very complete and they should have left it up. However it appears I spoke too soon.

They still post a whole lot of Apple articles, but I guess their not quite as biased as I thought.

Xarshi
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Posted: 11th Jun 2010 20:14
I'm by no means saying you are wrong, as I am not too familiar with this website. Was just pointing out that article.

People are always going to be biased, however. It's human nature.

JoelJ
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Posted: 11th Jun 2010 20:34
I wouldn't say the higher number of Apple posts is because they're biased in favor of Apple. I'd say it's because they're biased in favor of giving people what they want to read. You see a lot of Apple news because Apple is doing a lot worthy of news - and it's the kind of news their readers want.

Quote: ". I still believe that the original article was very complete"

There's no way it was complete. They have used the Evo for so long, they know the ins and the outs. After they have used it for so long, I'm sure the awesomenesses of it has put a cloud over the negatives. So when they bring out the negatives, they're going to do so in a way that makes it not sound so bad because XYZ compensates for it.
With the iPhone 4, they used it for a few minutes, at best. All that is going to stick out in their mind is negative thoughts. The mind naturally remembers notices negative things better. So without a fair amount of time spent with the iPhone, they can't write a fair review.

Now, if they had only spent a few minutes with each, they could give a honest "First Impressions" review or something like that.


however, I wish I had money to spare so I could buy me some some of that Evo love.

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