Comments on: Week in review: iPhone answers business calls

Apple opens up the iPhone to developers and challenges BlackBerry, while Yahoo opens up its takeover defense strategy. Also: Microsoft shows off IE 8.

[zato_3]

The so-called C|Net does it again

"Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers jumped into the fray by creating a
so-called iFund to invest in "Apple entrepreneurs" developing
applications for the iPhone..."

I'm so sure KPCB will be pleased to hear that they've "jumped into
the fray" with their "so-called" "iFund".

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Week in review: CNET tries (again) to push iPhone sales up

"Apple has licensed the Microsoft ActiveSync protocol, which will make it much easier to do push e-mail and contacts with Exchange servers."

Isn't it ironic that Apple needs Microsoft again to (try to) make one of its products successful, LOL?


"Until now, iPhone users who wanted to get e-mail on their iPhones had to jump through a series of technical hoops."

Oh, did they? I thought the iPhone was a great perfect piece of technology that allowed you to easily check your e-mails anywhere. It must be a coincidence that CNET only admits that "iPhone users who wanted to get e-mail on their iPhones had to jump through a series of technical hoops" when Apple supposedly gets a fix for it, right? Right...? LOL.


"And as a result, a lot of business users, who would have otherwise bought the iPhone right away, have stood on the sidelines with their BlackBerrys or Windows Mobile phones drooling at the iPhone."

C'mon CNET, don't let that minor insignificant thing called "professionalism" stop you from using the word you want: you meant "m*sturbating", didn't you?


"The announcement is a huge deal for Apple, because it eliminates one of the barriers the company faced in addressing the business market."

Yep: 1 barrier eliminated, 24 more to go.


"CNET News.com readers debated the value of Apple's move; at least one reader wanted to revisit issues on the minds of many iPhone users."

Let's make it clear (or better: let's give the wrong impression) that only one in many readers opinated against Apple.


""It's fairly certain that whatever Apple's plan is, it isn't going to be enough to satisfy the thousands of homebrew iPhone application users," wrote one News.com reader. "Will Apple continue to release updates that attempt to prevent these users from utilizing their iPhones as they wish?""

Yep, fairly certain for any unbiased party, which obviously excludes CNET, as we can see.


"Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers jumped into the fray by creating a so-called iFund to invest in "Apple entrepreneurs" developing applications for the iPhone and the iPod Touch. The $100 million will fund several new companies that develop software or services on the Apple platform."

God, seemingly Apple doesn't only need Microsoft's help, it also needs people to pay other people to develop something for the iPhone so it doesn't suck so much, LOL.


"Want to know how well IE 8 works? CNET's Robert Vamosi poked and prodded at the test version of the Microsoft browser, and found it's still very much a work in progress. Read his review here."

Robert Vamosi? That name is not strange to me... Oh yeah! It's that guy who made that biased Internet Explorer 7 vs. Firefox 2 comparison where Internet Explorer was bashed for having a 1 cm button in the tabs bar that supposedly unneccessarily wastes valuable space.


Ah well, a usual biased week on CNET. And I keep asking myself the same question I know many other people do: will this Apple-praising / Microsoft-bashing ever end on CNET and the general tech media?

[gycafesor]

so play as an 3G iphone?