of kids want an iPad
The Nielsen Company presented a cadre of individuals with a list of nice, shiny gadgets and let them cross off anything and everything they'd like to buy in the next six months, and 31 percent of kids 6-12 picked the iPad as one of them.
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Jeez, some people just live to hate on Engadget and Apple... I guess they just hate successful companies. Listen, Engadget may have reported on Apple's iPod new color, but they also had just reported on the PS3 new white color, so unless they are biased to Sony and Apple, please turn your hate inward. Besides, last year there were plenty of stories about Zune and XBOX 360 colors, so ZIP IT!
It is not so much that people hate Engadget or Apple, it is the hipocracy that is thrown around here by many of the commentors, as well as post authors. When there are new colors of the zune announced, we hear that the color looks like crap - but when the same color of iPod is announced, it is beautiful. When the red Zune was announced, many Apple fans said that Microsoft (sorry, M$) was just trying to dump their stock, why are they announcing new colors when they need to fix bugs (like colors involve the software development team), and why would you get a Zune when the "vastly superior iPod" is available. When the 360 was announced to have emulation, we were told that the PS3 was better because it had hardware compat - but when it was removed we were told that it was not needed and everybody can just buy a PS2. When different colors of 360s were announced, we were told that it would cause customer confusion, but with the PS3 it is giving customer choice.
Any time some new option is given with the 360/Zune/etc. the other side uses lies to try and knock it down. But when the supporters of the Zune or 360 try to point out flaws in the other side, there are cries of "we don't want your comments", or "why do you hate so much". Microsoft is a successful company, and the hate is vastly disproportionate to the hate Apple/Sony/etc. products receive.
@stephenbratz2
You seem to be reading a lot of your own bias into some of those articles. When the 2nd Zune rolled out, they covered the special yellow one that you couldn't buy a lot, and I don't remember any of the writers calling it ugly. And the writers defiantly didn't say that removing the hardware reverse compatibility from the PS3 was a good thing. Now, the commenters, on the other hand, can be blatantly biased one way or the other.
Yeah, there are sometimes a lot of apple stories, but apple is good at generating PR hype. I honestly don't see a real bias here. And the readers who comment, well, their fanboyism/bias usually balances itself out.
@insertAlias:
Here is a post by the engadget authors: http://www.engadget.com/2007/04/07/official-pink-zune-gets-100-000-unit-production-run/
In this post we are told that they should be fixing bugs rather than creating new colors - again, the dev team does not have anything to do with colors. The post also calls the color "garish", which dictionary.com defines garish as "crudely or tastelessly colorful, showy, or elaborate, as clothes or decoration." That post contains other knocks against the Zune. So there you have it proven.
@stephenbratz2
Well, I stand corrected for that instance.