Comments on: When Tech Journalism goes bad

By: hikaye

hikaye — Sat, 04 Jul 2009 18:42:34 +0000

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By: Rounding Up An Eventful Week

Rounding Up An Eventful Week — Sun, 21 Jun 2009 01:10:59 +0000

[...] the missing link for Flash on the iPhone. Peter Elst pointed out that this is an example of how tech journalism goes bad. (Lesson for yours truly.) David Tucker made some thoughtful observations about this [...]

By: gazeteler

gazeteler — Wed, 17 Jun 2009 20:54:00 +0000

felt exactly the same as you do when reading this article… Useless post with false statements.
The good thing is that people in the comments reacted quickly. The bad thing is that TechCrunch is read by lots of folks and written by a few that sometimes don’t know a thing about what they’re talking about.

By: Ncu

Ncu — Tue, 16 Jun 2009 21:53:33 +0000

The author of that article clearly has no understanding of Flash Player, Quicktime or video files. Where the heck do they find these guys?!

By: flo

flo — Tue, 16 Jun 2009 10:21:15 +0000

well, it’s techcrunch, so this sort of thing ought to be expected.
somewhere else though I read that it might enable safari on the iphone to pull flv files from websites and pass them to the built in quicktime player. The fact that safari’s activity window is the best way to download flash movies/other embeds without 3rd party software certainly would help with that i guess.

By: Quentin

Quentin — Tue, 16 Jun 2009 09:12:16 +0000

I felt exactly the same as you do when reading this article… Useless post with false statements.
The good thing is that people in the comments reacted quickly. The bad thing is that TechCrunch is read by lots of folks and written by a few that sometimes don’t know a thing about what they’re talking about.