Gizmodo (or Nokia?) trashes iPhone.
Published on 13 Dec 2007 at 10:08 pm.
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Filed under gizmodo, iphone, rant.
I first noticed that Gizmodo trying to pass off ads as content a few days ago when they were pushing an old, possibly discontinued, TomTom GPS.
Then today they post this little ad telling you why not to buy an iPhone.
It is almost indistinguishable from the two actual stories below it (in all honesty, I’m not so sure that last one isn’t an ad as well.) While mixing ads and content like this is dubious at best, in this case Gizmodo has been paid to trash another product — a product that their associate editor has written a book about — and pass it off as a story!
That’s pretty sleazy considering how much content they have thanks to the iPhone. They’ve tagged more than 1,000 stories “iPhone”, whereas Nokia (the sponsor of the iPhone trash-talk) manages around 400.
And take a look at their reasons for not recommending buying or wanting an iPhone, basically “they’ll have a better one at some time in the future.” Can I infer from that that Nokia is standing still and that the Nokia phone I buy now won’t be improved upon anytime in the next year?
I’m sorry Mr. Chen but I won’t be buying your book or visiting Gizmodo anymore either.
