I Hate Bad Reporting about Our Industry (meaning Mobile) - Tech Crunch 'professional' writer John Biggs composes exceptionally moronic article with MASSIVE errors

I hate bad reporting. And mostly I try to ignore it, where most tech authors can have violently differing opinions about their subject matter. But when some idiots don't know basic math - that is when we need.. the STATS POLICE. This is what Tech Crunch has now done, on an article which has the correct headline (the mobile wars are over) if they intend that to be the OS wars but on that story they are years behind the curve. Typical Americans, clueless about mobile once again, mesmerized by iNonsense.

The part I don't like is idiot clueless John Biggs writing within that correct headline. He thinks GOOGLE (????) and Apple are the only two 'winners' in HANDSETS. Google? With Pixel. Yeah. I know. And he says Samsung has burned itself up, and seems to be ignorant of Huawei or Oppo or Vivo or Xiaomi or ZTE. He DOES mention Lenovo in a disparaging way and seems oblivious to LG. So Mr 'Tech Crunch' thinks that the world handset market is somehow now owned by Google's Pixel and Apple's iPhone. And Samsung is dead (Samsung sold nearly twice as many smartphones the last quarter for which we have the data, Q2) and apparently Huawei, Oppo, Vivo etc all sell LESS THAN GOOGLE PIXEL smartphones?

What a total absolute idiot clueless moron. This guy John Biggs should never be allowed near a mobile story again. That info is PUBLIC DOMAIN and reported REGULARLY by major analysts, its no SECRET. What is Tech Crunch doing to its reputation allowing this airhead to write about mobile phones. Get him off the payroll. He's deadwood. Just read the COMMENTS on that stupid article and everybody there mocks the writer.

As is our custom, I will not honor the website with more links from this blog to an article that serves no end and is a disservice to the industry. SHAME ON YOU John Biggs 'professional' writer. You are a disgrace to your profession. You should resign and retire. Go write childrens' bedtime stories. You know nothing about mobile. You are clueless. Your editors wrote the headline for you, you messed up every word since in that story. Hang your head in shame!

And let me say this on how nice I was to Tech Crunch. When I found this mistake-ridden story, I used Twitter to contact John Biggs. I told him that he has errors in his story. He sent me a reply with literally the shrugging shoulders sign. When I asked was he serious and not interested in correcting ERRORS in his story, he blocked me. This is the professional ethics of Tech Crunch - and mind you, I do have an 'Real' checkmark on Twitter to verify that I am really Tomi Ahonen. And that is the professional response by Mr John Biggs - he blocked me. Nice. I'll make sure his colleagues at Tech Crunch will hear that too. But first needed to post this blog. Do not Trust Tech Crunch as a professional outfit if they DELIBERATELY leave ERROR-RIDDEN articles on their website and won't issue corrections when pointed out by the experts of that given competence area. Tech Crunch, shame on you! Get this incompetent clown off your show. He is damaging your brand! Shame on you John Biggs, resign!

Comments

[Isceald Glede]

Normally, I would ascribe incompetence or lack of time before considering malice, but for an on-line tech journal there is another possibility. Techies either block adverts or javascript (which affectively blocks adverts) because adverts leap onto the text you are reading, move distractingly or make irritating noise. The typical response by an ad-supported web site is to make the article itself the advert. With this in mind, I read the article to decide what it is an advert for.

First up, cheap phones are dismissed because they are cheap. The target audience is people who will buy Veblen goods as a status symbol. Another strong pointer to the target audience is the idea that a flagship phone is an impulse buy. So, the targets have more money than brains, and are encouraged to do no research before making an expensive tech purchase. There is some misdirection. Ignorant status symbol buyers are pointed away from manufacturers with good flagship phones and Samsung is bashed mercilessly. (A Techy would know that explosive batteries from a third rate supplier have a fake Samsung label because Samsung's excellent reputation bumps up the price.)

Next there is the author's response: Block anything that contradicts the advert.

The article quacks like and Apple advert and it waddles like an Apple advert. That said, I was explicitly looking for an advertiser. An iFan with acute Dunning-Kruger syndrome is just as likely.

[John A]

The smartphone war in a brand perspective is not over much can happend. Just watch the review of the iPhone 7 that Chris Pirillo posted in YouTube. He was very worried of the quality on the software with iOS 10.

This problem might change the perspective that iPhones are the "natural" choice if you just want a smartphone that work flawless. That can be a opening for the Pixel phones in the long term. And the Samsung Note 7 problems can of course be a opening for other smartphone brands to step up also.

Nokia will return probably at the end of this year and this will have a impact to.

So no way the smartphone war are settled between Samsung/iPhone. Not even in the US market, LeEcho will soon enter the market there. So I think it will be some very interesting years to come.

[NoteIsOnFire]

Samsung is now calling back all Note 7's and has halted the production. In Reuters article Stephen Robb, a partner at UK law firm Weightmans said that Samsung "need to be writing to every customer with an apology and some form of 'compensation'... It will clearly be costly for the company but the alternative is to end up going the way of Nokia and Blackberry."