msmobiles.com/f

[msmobiles.com_robot]

Everybody knows that BBC - a public service broadcaster paid by taxes of UK residents - has a left wing-bias. Some people, including British prime minister Tony Blair, even say: anti-American bias. Today we can add...

Read more at http://www.msmobiles.com/news.php/5532.html

[tapani]

[thelondonthing]

What a complete load of bullshit.

Nowhere in the BBC correspondents blog, nor during the Newsnight package, did anybody say that there is no future for Microsoft in the future of mobile phones. You are putting words in the mouth of the BBC, and that is dishonest - but to be honest, that's what most people have come to expect of this p!ssy little website.

Your analysis is grossly misleading - if you'd actually bothered to watch the Newsnight package, as well as read the blog properly, you'd realise that it is not designed to be about which platforms are the best, and which handsets customers should buy. The package is about the general impressiveness of smartphones, and on that basis, there is commonality between all smartphone platforms.

The developments in smartphones are broadly the same across all platforms - better cameras, wi-fi, higher-resolution screens, improved UI, internet surfing, stereo headsets, 3G, HSDPA: each of these are features that are available, or are being rolled out, on all smartphone platforms. There would have been no benefit whatsoever for the BBC to be told the same information by both Symbian and Microsoft. Similarly, there would have been no real benefit to presenting "both sides of the story", because in this case, both sides of the story are the same, in that technology in smartphones is improving, and the features across platforms are broadly similar.

The fact that Newsnight chose to use Symbian for the package is indicative of these simple facts.

You say that Symbian is based in central London, with Microsoft in Reading and HTC Europe in Slough, and so the only reason that Microsoft wasn't mentioned was because of the BBC's so-called anti-Microsoft bias. Given that there was absolutely no evidence of anti-Microsoft bias in the package, that assessment doesn't hold water. It's correct that Microsoft wasn't mentioned and Symbian was - but it's also correct that Symbian was only really mentioned in the context of introducing the people to whom the correspondent was speaking. The package wasn't about how brilliant Symbian phones are, nor about how they are better than Microsoft phones. The package was simply demonstrating the massive improvements in smartphones as a whole.

You also obsess over how Symbian has a fractional presence in the US, which you emphasise is the world's largest consumer market. How exactly is that relevant? You later emphasise that the BBC has a global reach and should have a global perspective - so then why should it focus solely upon Symbian's US share when it's global market share is just under 80%?

It is common practice for news stations across the globe to speak to "the obvious choice" when it comes to preparing packages. On ITV News in the UK, I have seen more than once packages about music downloads which solely featured the iPod. Does this make ITV News biased against Microsoft because they didn't feature the Portable Media Center in their reports? Or is it simply because the iPod is the obvious choice to focus upon when discussing music downloads? On Sky News, CNN International, FOX News, and yes even BBC News, whenever there is a generic story about international computing, these broadcasters almost invariably feature stock footage of Microsoft Windows PCs in use. Does that make them anti-Apple of anti-Linux because only Windows has featured in such generic packages about global computing as a whole? Or is it simply because the footage is simply available, and the content of the package makes the platform being shown completely irrelevant in the context of the content itself?

They spoke to Symbian simply because Symbian is the most widespread platform at this time. The Newsnight package was not designed to be platform-specific; it was not intended to be an analysis of what is available on each platform, and pitting different smartphones against each other - it was simply a short piece about developments in the mobile phone industry as a whole, and getting input from Microsoft wouldn't have added anything else, especially considering the fact that (as you effectively acknowledge later in the article) Microsoft's approach to smartphones has so far been dominated by imitating and trying to catch up with its Symbian rival.

You don't even seem particularly convinced by your own assessment of this package, given that halfway through, you give up and go into a rant about Microsoft blogs, the lack of recent Windows Mobile advertising, and how imitation of the competition is not the best way for Microsoft to succeed - none of which has ANYTHING to do with the crap that you started spitting out at the beginning of your so-called article.

Oh, and incidentally, most audio/video content available through BBC News is available in streaming Windows Media format. Additionally, the new BBC iPlayer - their interactive media player which will allow BBC licence payers to download BBC content free of charge to their computers - is based exclusively on Windows Media. I was part of the trial for the new service - which at the time was called "BBC iMP" (Integrated Media Player) - and it is extremely impressive to use, and it has been developed closely with Microsoft. So how about you stop spitting out bullsh!t about the BBC's anti-Microsoft bias, when you clearly haven't done ANY research into this story, and in fact you've just decided that because Microsoft wasn't mentioned (in a package where mentioning it wouldn't have added ANYTHING at all), they therefore hate Microsoft.

If you'd actually bothered to do any research at all, you'd realise that the BBC actually works very closely with Microsoft, and that there is no tangible evidence of any animosity towards them. In fact, you might like to see the Director of BBC New Media speaking with Bill Gates at the Microsoft Mix06 conference just a few months ago - any evidence of anti-Microsoft vitriol? Erm.... no.

Rather than present the totality of the story, and recognising how closely the BBC actually works with Microsoft, you've only presented half of it, implying that the BBC dislikes Microsoft, and that that is why it was left out of the Newsnight package. If you'd actually presented the "whole truth, not half the truth" - as you claim you always do - your article would have of course looked extremely stupid, because your groundless accusations would have been undermined by the true facts of the matter, specifically that the BBC doesn't dislike Microsoft, and that the Newsnight package in question didn't badly represent Microsoft, and that in fact there was absolutely no need for Microsoft to have a presence in the package at all, except perhaps to nod and agree with everything that Symbian had already said about how smartphone technology is developing. Given that you yourself admit that Microsoft imitates rather than innovates in its Windows Mobile offering, can you explain what benefit there would have been to the BBC wasting money on interviewing Microsoft?

So how about you shut the fúck up and try writing stories that are actually based on facts rather than continuing to churn out sh!t like this that's based on nothing more than your tabloid misrepresentation of facts, and your continuing ignorance of the "whole truth".

[EJR]

[kvee]

Hmmm I feel another story deletion coming on

The touble with MS Mobiles is that it craves tabloid style sensational headlines. "BBC biased against Microsoft" is a headline grabber. The only flaw with this that there is absolutely f*** all evidence to support it.

One of these days someone is gonna sue the ass off MS Mobiles for libel. Its only a matter of time !!

[EJR]

[tapani]

[EJR]

[tapani]

[peekie]

Stop complaining about the bbc as you are not even allowed to watch it as its for the uk only not germany , if you dont like what they say then dont watch it simple really

[EJR]

[leonard]

I want MSMobiles to address this comment by TheLondonThing;

[leonard]

[tapani]

[kvee]