rant whine 'splain espouse: "Are there fact-checkers at <i>The Chronicle</i>?"

Thursday, March 30, 2006

"Are there fact-checkers at The Chronicle?"

Many people claim Apple is making a big mistake by so jealously guarding the technologies behind the iPod and the iTunes Music Store. In fact, many decry this stance as similar to the supposed mistake Apple made in not licensing the OS in the 1980s, thereby losing the personal computing battle to Microsoft.

I'm personally not sure which argument I believe. But one thing's for certain, it's not as simple as these people say it is.

John Gruber, one of my favorite bloggers and Apple experts, refutes the idea that Apple is making a mistake by so jealously guarding the proverbial keys to the iPod and the iTunes Music Store.

In fact, Gruber disputes practically every supposed "fact" in Dan Fost's analysis of Apple's current business strategy in the San Francisco Chronicle, in which Fost utters the same claims that Apple's making such a big mistake.

Frankly, Fost's humiliation makes me echo Gruber's sentiment: "Are there fact-checkers at The Chronicle?"

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