Its interesting to see all of the blog postings which exist solely to point out bias in some other blog posting. Since blog postings are like the worlds biggest 'opinion' section one might think that pointing out bias is unnecessary.<p>So what do folks who point this stuff out hope they will achieve? Does anyone reading MG Siegler think he is anything but a total Apple Fan? Or Gruber? And do their readers not know this?<p>I get the angst about "Gee this person with a really big soap box is saying things that distort the 'truth.'" Where truth is defined as an opinion. But I always wonder about the point. I tell my Dad that Fox News distorts the way they report on issues to favor the conservative viewpoint, but it doesn't change either how he feels about their journalism, or his desire to share 'juicy tidbits' with me.
It's amusing to watch those two go at it, but the truth probably lies somewhere in between their two extreme positions.<p>Is it a bad sign for Microsoft to be patching Win8 in response to OEM and enterprise feedback now? No, probably not. Bott is right that this should be expected because of how MS's ecosystem is structured. However, there could be a whole new set of bugs and deficiencies uncovered by end-users in the weeks and months following Win8's release that could require more patches.<p>I'm going to go out a limb and say that Win8 will require some pretty serious patches by January. I'm not saying this because I think MS is incompetent. I don't. I say this because W8 is <i>ambitious</i>. There's so much new stuff that some of it is bound to need fixing. Mountain Lion, on the other hand, was a relatively unambitious upgrade and it still needed extensive fixes. What does that say about Apple? Again, I don't think it says Apple is incompetent. It says this stuff is <i>hard</i>.<p>New OS versions, even relatively unambitious ones, can cause growing pains. Win8 is not unambitious. There will be problems, and <i>smart</i> people will mellow out and give MS a chance to fix them.
Usual sort of 'inside baseball' with bloggers getting upset about other bloggers' opinions. This applies to political pundits, sports pundits, gaming pundits, and, obviously, tech pundits.<p>These aren't the interesting thoughts you're looking for.
It sounds like Rush Limbaugh complaining about some Democrats.
I meant it goes both ways.<p>Edd Bott to Microsoft is like MG Siegler to Apple.<p>So, why give these Elitists any attentions at all?