iPhone 5 reviews looking positive

[Crowley]

what i see when i read reviews:

"apple. *fap* *fap* *fap*"

FTFY

[Fudzy]

ANOTHER iPhone 5 thread? Geez MyBB is trolling the fandroids hard lately

[cerebus]

This is exactly why I love Fudzilla. No bending down and grabbing their ankles for Apple.

http://www.fudzilla.com/home/item/28...n-the-iphone-5

So you trust Fudzilla and who else? Nobody? Only those reviews that correlate with your own determined stance that iPhone is lackluster and derivative?

[cerebus]

It's not so evident here because it's hard to measure reviews/previews - but the gaming and movie industry has metacritic to keep track of reviews/previews and you find the big labels/publishers "big budget" productions get highly favorable preview rates (especially if it's exclusive), but then after release the reviews come in with a more believable criticism of the production.

While we're at it, global warming is a myth perpetuated by the leftist media.

[Pooky]

Haters, haters everywhere.

[HBee]

Haters, haters everywhere.

isheep, isheep everyw.... uh, oh yeah, in a queue somewhere.

[Crowley]

So you trust Fudzilla and who else? Nobody? Only those reviews that correlate with your own determined stance that iPhone is lackluster and derivative?

If you only trust the sites that blow smoke up Apple's ass then I guess it is just fair that I trust the sites that don't.

Once again, my choice.

[cerebus]

If you only trust the sites that blow smoke up Apple's ass then I guess it is just fair that I trust the sites that don't.

Once again, my choice.

Totally your choice. You might want to avoid Stuff, Anandtech, Arstechnica, Techcrunch, Gizmodo, Huffpo, Bloomberg, Time, Telegraph, CNet, NYT, Verge and probably a bunch of other sites that equal the vast majority of the technical press in your determination to avoid 'bias' though. Not that that would make you the biased and irrational one, heavens forbid.

[Anthro]

This is all I will say on the matter

[cerebus]

This is all I will say on the matter

HAHA

[EtienneK]

I'm waiting for the GSM Arena review. Only site I trust when it comes to cellphone reviews.

[2012]

While we're at it, global warming is a myth perpetuated by the leftist media.

sigh, a simple google... or is that too much to ask from an iSheep?

http://www.computerandvideogames.com...d-publication/

[cerebus]

sigh, a simple google... or is that too much to ask from an iSheep?

http://www.computerandvideogames.com...d-publication/

I'm not denying the practice can exist in isolated cases. But you're pointing at the ENTIRE tech media and ANYBODY who publishes a positive review. It amounts to a massive conspiracy theory, and only you and the sources you trust are correct. Which is a load of paranoid scraping-the-barrel tosh, frankly.

[Crowley]

So the iPhone 5 came out and it will sell very well, even better than all the iPhones that came before it. None of that is shocking. It turned out that it is just a minor incremental upgrade compared to its predecessor and that the lumia 920 is SIGNIFICANLTY better and so a couple of articles were explicit and clear about how much better and fresher the lumia is. Again, none of that is shocking. The day the iPhone 5 was announced, bloggers, tech journalists, and social network junkies almost unanimously deplored lack of NFC. Again, not shocking.

But I am now officially shocked and dumbfounded! Because 24 hours after apple’s announcement, it seems that everyone changed their tone: now they are all in line, in support of apple’s exclusion of NFC. It is incredible. For every 1 article that mentions the superiority of lumia 920, there are 10 articles that extol the virtues of iPhone 5’s thinness and LTE while dismissing NFC all together. Bloggers like BGR, Engadget, slashgear, and gizmodo have completely switched to the apple-worship apple apologist modes; not only are they pouring praise on the new iPhone with ridiculous articles, they are dutifully, scrupulously--yet not so subtly-- defending and rationalizing apple’s exclusion of NFC. They are doing it one by one, as though they owe something to apple and must defend it with their honor. It is disgusting and bizarre.

But what is more disgusting than the tech blogs are the journalists who are actually trying to be "objective" and "independent": you see, the tech blogs are at least blatantly biased, so you kind of know what you’re getting and so you don’t get influenced; reading articles on BGR about phones is like reading articles on fox news about the dems; in fact, reading Jonathan Geller’s shamelessly biased opinions is just like listening to Sean Hannity; if god does exist, then both Hannity and Geller should be in the same pit in hell. But I digress. Back to the "objective" articles; even when they talk about how boring the new iPhone is, or how minutely incremental it is, they pretty much stop short of admitting that the lumia 920 is better or that the new razr is thinner. It does not matter that the 920 is not released; these journalists know the specs and saw the YouTube videos; still, they won’t admit that the Lumia is better. These articles are saying things like "the new iPhone is matched by……" or "the iPhone 5 matches its current competitors" or "new iPhone neck and neck". They stop shy of saying that the iPhone is outmatched. They just seem to have a hard time criticizing the iPhone, as though they have to be utterly cautious and careful before they make any criticism of the iPhone. It’s almost like their jobs are at stake. It almost reminds me of the way Israel is treated by American politicians and news channels. It’s like apple has this special political position that entails double standards when evaluating its actions and its products.

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Seems that biased and irrational thoughts are not exclusive to me. Who would have thought.

[HapticSimian]

Because, why not?