Even Macworld is noticing Apple's lies

[alsiladka]

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I've been a consumer watchdog of sorts when it comes to Apple: They announce release dates and miss them, constantly. They make bogus claims, endlessly. Fastest/biggest/smallest/thinnest whatever in the world. Market share figures. The closed captioning issue I've raised twice lately. On and on it goes. Outright lying and gross exaggeration has been a staple of the Steve Jobs years, a weird offset to the high-quality products they actually do regularly ship. (Which makes me wonder: Why exaggerate? The stuff is good to begin with.) But then, not being under the Apple halo, one might expect someone like me to notice these things. What's interesting is that one of the biggest Apple supporters, Macworld, is finally seeing the light as well:

According to Apple’s January 15th Apple Premieres iTunes Movie Rentals With All Major Film Studios press release:

iTunes Movie Rentals launches today and will offer over 1,000 titles by the end of February, including over 100 titles in stunning high definition video with 5.1 Dolby Digital surround sound which users can rent directly from their widescreen TV using Apple TV.

As it’s the last day of this long February, let’s see how that’s going.

On my Apple TV I examined the All HD area and found that Apple’s close to the promise of 100 HD movies. The total as of the morning of February 29th is 91 HD movies. Note, however, that not all are offered with 5.1 Dolby Digital surround sound.

Choose All Movies on your Apple TV and you’ll find 351 titles for rent.

Dash to the iTunes Store from your Mac or PC and you’ll see that you can rent 378 titles if you use the All Rentals link. Use iTunes’ Power Search feature, however, and 399 titles appear. When you select iTunes’ All Movies link, 770 titles appear, the combined total of movies for rent and for sale.

So they're not even close. They don't have "over" 100 HD movies, let alone HD movies with 5.1 sound. They have significantly fewer than 1000 non-HD movies. It's six weeks after that announcement was made. Excuse me for finding exception with this. And bravo to Mr. Breen at Macworld for having some credibility.

Thanks, Holland.

Along with this we had the recent Mozilla revelation that hinted at Apple's hiding of some APIs. What's the world ( Apple ) coming onto!!

[aryayush]

What do you mean by even Macworld?

Macworld is an unbiased magazine. They've been honestly critiquing Apple ever since their first publication.

[ring_wraith]

@OP saying one thing bad about Macworld around these parts leads to Aayush hunting you down.. and you go and start a thread...

Anyway, Aayush excuse the guy, I mean Macworld does not exactly sound unbiased.

[aku]

is the guy referring to the 'MacWrold' mag or just Mac World?
i suppose it's the later one.

[aryayush]

It's the former.

Macworld published an article calling Apple out on their failure to make a thousand movies available for rental on the iTunes Store by the end of February like they'd promised to. This guy, apparently, thinks that this is the first time Macworld has criticised something Apple has done wrong.

[aku]

ohh.. thanks aayush for pointing that out...
i overlooked that part