[LINK] apple phone data collection - just a bug

[Tom Koltai]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: link-bounces at mailman.anu.edu.au 
> [mailto:link-bounces at mailman.anu.edu.au] On Behalf Of Richard Chirgwin
> Sent: Thursday, 28 April 2011 6:23 PM
> To: link at mailman.anu.edu.au
> Subject: Re: [LINK] apple phone data collection - just a bug
> 
> 
> PR's answer: release the white iPhone, right now.
> 
> Google News -  White iPhone - 2,267 stories plus.
> 
> It's hard to get a metric on how many "Apple Tracking" 
> stories there are 
> now accepting the "bug" line - there's a couple of thousand iPhone 
> tracking stories but they go back much further than today's 
> white iPhone 
> story.
> 
> So the bottom line, from the festering pile of dung that is "Apple 
> Journalism", is that a new phone colour is more important than (a) 
> whether the tracking was a feature or a bug, and (b) whether 
> there's any 
> reason to trust the "it was a bug" statement.
> 
> (shakes head sadly)
> 
> RC


Well Richard,
Isn't this why we have Journalists ?

Step 1:
Ring Apple, 

"Hi Apple, would you care to comment if the TB[1] has been fixed on the
White iPhone ?"

Step 2: 
When they fail to reply then you can write a story, headlined: 

Apple refuse to comment on whether or not newly released White iPhone is
infected with TB.

That way your article will meet the search requirements of both sets of
searchers... Should get to the top of Trending list fairly quickly.

[1] Tracking Bug

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