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Originally Posted by fjtorres
Uh, you do realize the guy was lying in his "review"?
That the car's black box logs proved he was lying and the NYT had to issue one of their non-apologgy apologies for his "bad judgment"?
All devices come with restrictions and instruction manuals and he did what he was expressly warned not to as if the manual was lying.
I'm not about to buy a Tesla myself but until the next generation of batteries get to market in 5-10 years, Tesla is the state of the art for electric cars as both Toyota and Mercedes have acknowleged. Nobody does it better and it is a really hard job to even try; just ask Fisker.
Apple's situation is simpler: for years now they've been relying on brand loyalty and media hype to paper over the compromises in their products. It's not that the products are bad but that like everybody else's they have limitations and constraints they have been pretending don't exist.
Well, the media isn't carrying water for them anymore; instead they have declared open season on Apple and the slightest glitch is being blown out of proportion. Bad as this is, there is worse to come: when they get so tired they stop covering it.
"The only thing worse than being talked about is not being talked about." Oscar Wilde.
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This for the last decade or so since the Ipod Jobs the showman was able to market Apple products amazingly. Anything Apple was huge news and they did not have to promote their product apart from just releasing them the news media did it for them.
Now that is not the case they are no longer getting free publicity and have to stay in the news by releasing tidbits about their new products like the iwatch etc as they see other companies getting the lime light. When Apple took the mobile and tech world by storm many of the statements etc from MIcrosoft, BlackBerry & Nokia sounded like sour grapes. Now many of Apple statement sound like sour grapes to me.