Without mentioning the names of the usual offenders, I often wonder if some tech pundits exist solely to find bad news, whatever it might be, the better to increase the hit count, and regardless of whether the bad tidings are accurate or not.
Take Firefox, the cross-platform browser that’s reinvigorated the tarnished reputation of the Mozilla [...]

The worst thing a personal computer operating system can do, aside from crashing a lot, is to destroy your data. Indeed, a bug of this sort ought to be a show-stopper, but if you believe all those lurid headlines, such a defect was allowed to remain in Leopard when it was released.
If it sounds frightening [...]

You know a lot of what Steve Jobs says during interviews may be overlooked when controversy erupts about something Apple is doing at any given moment.
Months back, for example, when Jobs was asked about a Software Development Kit (SDK) for the iPhone, to give third-party software developers a chance to build applications for it, he [...]