Comments on: Following up on letting iPhone apps run my life

After experiencing problems with several apps when Daniel Terdiman let the iPhone take over for a day, he decided to give them another try at home.

[Seaspray0]

Good, you followed up. Now, how about trying this same experiment with other smart phones. I'd like to know how twitter compares against other apps on other phones as well. Are there more or less apps available? How about an app that will link to GPS and show where you are on a map (I'd find that one useful)? How's the reception? Don't tell me cnet is only interested in doing iphone stories; there's more than one smartphone out there. You owe it to your readers to compare them and the apps that run on them.

[tekwiz4u]

No need to do other phones. Other phones suck compared to the iphone. So suck it up.

[Fil0403]

@ tekwiz4u: No need to do other phones indeed. iPhone is the one that needs a distraction from all the 3G problems. So suck it up doubled.

[Mark Molloy]

Friend,
Learn a lesson. It used to be don't speak before you think, now should be don't write. Particularly when you set yourself up to be a disseminator of knowledge. I hope that no one made any decisions on your half-baked reviews.
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[sj10689]

Reply to Mark Molloy:

In last week's article, the author was clearly reviewing a day when he decided that he try applications on the iPhone; his skepticism of some of the mechanisms would not encourage too many people to try these apps (except for those who may want to give them a test run.) At least give him credit for following up on last week's adventure, which I found amusing and insightful, as did many other readers.

I understand your point and all, but you don't have to be so condescending about it. This author is not writing a REVIEW of iPhone apps. (keyword: REVIEW) In fact, when this website introduces expert reviews, you'll find time and time again that updates to the review have to be made, usually not in favor of the corresponding device. But in the case with Daniel Terdiman's article, his second look at iPhone apps turned out to be more positive than his first. Risk management suggests that this is a good thing.

Mark Molloy, my friend, learn a lesson. And be grateful that the author is at least giving readers an opportunity to read his journal entries (that's what they are) based on his musings over the iPhone apps. Have yourself a margarita, and a very nice day; relax a little

[sj10689]

Reply to Mark Molloy:

In last week's article, the author was clearly reviewing a day when he decided that he try applications on the iPhone; his skepticism of some of the mechanisms would not encourage too many people to try these apps (except for those who may want to give them a test run.) At least give him credit for following up on last week's adventure, which I found amusing and insightful, as did many other readers.

I understand your point and all, but you don't have to be so condescending about it. This author is not writing a REVIEW of iPhone apps. (keyword: REVIEW) In fact, when this website introduces expert reviews, you'll find time and time again that updates to the review have to be made, usually not in favor of the corresponding device. But in the case with Daniel Terdiman's article, his second look at iPhone apps turned out to be more positive than his first. Risk management suggests that this is a good thing.

Mark Molloy, my friend, learn a lesson. And be grateful that the author is at least giving readers an opportunity to read his journal entries (that's what they are) based on his musings over the iPhone apps. Have yourself a margarita, and a very nice day; relax a little

[Thomas, David]

Keep up the good work. You might just find yourself the perfect person to continue real world reviews for all such devices, and receive a lot of respect, and credence as a result.

I for one, look forward to more similar experiments, and subsequent articles.

[debaser123]

I never read your first post, and I probably never will. But kudos for being honest, and having the balls to say you had a mistake. Unlike, Mr. Mark Malloy, I recognize that a blog, by definition, is a log of someone's thought on a given subject, more like a first person editorial, etc. etc. Keep doing what you're doing, and don't worry about guys like Mark -- they're everywhere you look.

[alittlespice]

I might disagree with Mark Malloy too...except this is the same idiot reporter who, on last year's "Road Trip," where the object was to review various gadgets for a widely read series of CNET articles, couldn't get the Garmin Nuvi GPS unit working because he didn't realize that you had to put up the antenna. And who published an entire story about people on London subways hooking up for anonymous sex via celphone texting ("toothing"), that turned out to be completely false, because he fell for a hoax. I could go on, there's plenty more; the point is, there's a pattern of poor, sloppy reportage here, not just in his blog, but in what he passes off as "journalism."

[sj10689]

I own a Garmin Nuvi 200, and it doesn't have an antenna. In the case of the Nuvi 350, the antenna might be camouflaged with the device, so as to hide from plain sight

[sj10689]

I own a Garmin Nuvi 200, and it doesn't have an antenna. In the case of the Nuvi 350, the antenna might be camouflaged with the device, so as to hide from plain sight

[sj10689]

I own a Garmin Nuvi 200, and it doesn't have an antenna. In the case of the Nuvi 350, the antenna might be camouflaged with the device, so as to hide from plain sight

But he should have read the owner's manual, though

[Fil0403]

And this concludes this week's lesson on how to put aside your professionalism and suck up to Apple fanboys so you stop receiving hate-mail. Brought to you by CNET.
I do have to say that I find it pretty amusing how when there is a problem with anything remotely related to Windows, the possibility of being the user's fault is simply ruled out from the beginning, with all the blame going immediately and directly to that OS that never works (read "Windows") and to that company that just sucks (read "Microsoft"), while when the problem is remotely related to anything from Apple, it must (has to) be the user's fault because everybody knows Apple software and hardware is perfect, and the same can be said to every single piece of software developed for Apple products. So you just keep re-writing your article every week until it works like you want to (i.e. until you please the Apple community and stop receiving hate-mail). And let's not mention the proportion Apple users / Apple coverage by CNET, because it is at least 1/1000. Does CNET even know there are tech companies besides Apple and electronic devices besides the iPhone (including true 3G smartphones with applications too)?
C'mon CNET, at least change your name to "AppleFanboy.com", at least it's more accurate.