Not-yet-made-up-an-iphone-lie-gate
Gah. I’m so behind the rest of the world. There’s been antennaegate and then there was Ryan Block’s not-at-all-link-bait glassgate that the rest of the tech industry parroted in its typical unthinking manner, without, you know, thinking it might be a good idea to check some of the supposed facts.
I need my own ‘gate’ to become famous (and then, presumably, hated and ridiculed a few hours later, but that’s the price of fame—just ask Jedward), but I don’t even own an iPhone 4 (not that lacking something you’re writing about is a problem for quite a few tech hacks these days).
Any ideas? I was thinking about actually-it-seems-that-the-iphone-4-works-quite-well-gate, but I don’t think that’ll draw in the traffic.
Simple, merely make up a story that Korean video player manufacturer “Cowon” is suing Apple over stealing tech.
Then you can call it CowonGate.
I’ll let myself out.
Aaaaargh. Also, do it. Aaaaargh.
The scary thing is, about a hundred sites would probably run the story before anyone bothered to check.
(Also, I thought it was funny.)