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To: Doren who wrote (170844)	6/12/2014 6:30:28 PM
From: MGV	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 213177

Sylvester isn't a basher. He is a parody of one. A basher imv is someone who has an agenda contrary to objective and fruitful discussion of pros and cons. But, in the end, descriptives are merely semantics. The issue is whether or not there is a sincere interest in allowing your view view to be challenged and being open to changing it.

To: Doren who wrote (170844)	6/14/2014 11:53:09 AM
From: Kevin Podsiadlik	10 Recommendations Recommended By aaplAnnie AJ Muckenfus CHRIS LINELL clean86 HerbVic and 5 more members Read Replies (4) \| Respond to of 213177

Someday Apple will lose its way. It's even possible that the events of the past few weeks might go down in history as major missteps. I'd like to think that if so, I will see it before it is too late, but who can be sure. That said, you don't get to be far and away the most successful corporation of the 21st century so far without doing a hell of a lot more things right than wrong, and more importantly having the things done right prove far more important than the things done wrong. Was the iPhone 4 antenna setup a mistake? Yes. Was it a mistake that seriously marred the company's reputation? Hardly, except in the minds of a handful of eternal doomsayers. What I'm saying is that right now it's strongly going with the odds to give Apple the benefit of almost any doubt. Someday that will change, but it certainly has been right to do so in the recent past. It's definitely a difficult time to be an Apple critic. Not many people have the skills to admit to past negative sentiments that were wrong, and come up with a way to carefully explain why this time is different. The Macalope's blog is a testament to the number of people who are supposedly skilled enough to get paid for their criticisms and yet come off as entirely irrational. Certainly our resident critics are little if any better. So while in an ideal world, their prophecies might be met with a little less hostility, the fact is, we've been right a lot more than they have recently, and it's only natural to approach them from that perspective.