Where was I positive about it? I didn't say anything either way, just reported on what was stated. Granted, I didn't go into a rant, but I'm sure you people have had enough of my ranting today!
Sure, you can call it "straight reporting," but if your response to the EMI-Apple announcement is so strongly and so personally riddled with antithesis to the idea of some movement forward, how can you expect to breezily say, "There you have it! M$ is working behind the scenes to eliminate DRM!"
I didn't care for your tone in the other commentary, but I happen to believe if you're going to play the role of nothing Apple does will ever be good enough, in the interest of fairness and honesty, you really ought to play it that way with M$.
I'm not a huge fan of yours or your site, but these two posts have convinced me that I'll eliminate your feed from my lists.
Dave, you totally missed my point. I'm not going to rehash it, but you pretty clearly didn't understand that I think it's good news wrapped in an agenda. And yes, we're incredibly critical of Microsoft, Zune, etc. You think they were happy when I wrote this? http://www.engadget.com/2007/03/20/five-things-microsoft-needs-to-do-to-fix-the-zune/
But hey, if you didn't care for me or Engadget and now you're leaving over some silly post about Apple, I can't see what we could have done to keep you around in the first place.
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Ryan Block @ Apr 2nd 2007 5:52PM
Where was I positive about it? I didn't say anything either way, just reported on what was stated. Granted, I didn't go into a rant, but I'm sure you people have had enough of my ranting today!
dashiel @ Apr 2nd 2007 5:56PM
you removed the "good start" line.
dave @ Apr 2nd 2007 8:35PM
Sure, you can call it "straight reporting," but if your response to the EMI-Apple announcement is so strongly and so personally riddled with antithesis to the idea of some movement forward, how can you expect to breezily say, "There you have it! M$ is working behind the scenes to eliminate DRM!"
I didn't care for your tone in the other commentary, but I happen to believe if you're going to play the role of nothing Apple does will ever be good enough, in the interest of fairness and honesty, you really ought to play it that way with M$.
I'm not a huge fan of yours or your site, but these two posts have convinced me that I'll eliminate your feed from my lists.
Ryan Block @ Apr 2nd 2007 8:47PM
Dave, you totally missed my point. I'm not going to rehash it, but you pretty clearly didn't understand that I think it's good news wrapped in an agenda. And yes, we're incredibly critical of Microsoft, Zune, etc. You think they were happy when I wrote this? http://www.engadget.com/2007/03/20/five-things-microsoft-needs-to-do-to-fix-the-zune/
But hey, if you didn't care for me or Engadget and now you're leaving over some silly post about Apple, I can't see what we could have done to keep you around in the first place.