REUTERS MAKES VISA STORY ALL ABOUT APPLE

Reuters felt the need to turn a story about Visa into something connected to Apple’s failing payment system -- Apple Pay.

The token-based security from Visa is already being used in the US and is now being rolled out to the EU. Yet Reuters did not feel that was the real story as it totally failed to give Apple’s payment’s system a mention.

According to Reuters,  the move could set the stage for Apple's Apple Pay and rival payment services to be introduced into Europe in coming months.  Of course Apple Pay is in the headline, after all with this sort of hype, there will be no rivals.

The apple link to the story was provided by "many" [unnamed] experts claiming that Visa’s token system was a critical security enabler when Apple Pay was introduced in the United States last year.  Other than that Apple was  not involved in the story at all.

BUSINESS INSIDER AND NEW YORKER PEDDLES IWATCH

Apple’s iWatch is two years late, overpriced and probably pointless, but according to  BusinessInsider it is because we have not noticed the lights .

In a classic, “never mind the quality look at the width” argument  Lisa Eadicicco tells us that one of the most interesting features of the watch has been overlooked – for shame.
Apparently we have totally failed to notice that it does not turn itself on, in the same way as the iPhone – stop the presses!

“The screen for the watch uses deeper blacks than that of the iPhone. Ive thinks that an entire display, especially for something as small as a watch, shouldn't have to light up. Rather, the screen should only highlight the specific thing you're looking at.”

Both articles quote Apple's "style over substance" merchant Jonny "be good" Ives as saying Apple is trying by thinking about screens differently on watches versus phones.

So this esoteric bollocks about light is all you have got?  Since when did the tiny and insignificant aspects of another company’s products occupy your time and need a story like this?  Is it because most of the sensible press is reporting that the iWatch is pointless and might not work has dumped
all its sexy functionality can be made by the Chinese for $30 and  Apples smarter customers are bored with it already.

GUARDIAN SUBMITS TO APPLE CENSORSHIP

The voice of the British left, and the newspaper which reports the Edward Snowden material apparently believes that Apple needs to be censor its copy.

According to the Daily Telegraph,  the Guardian has a policy of requiring its hacks to write nice stories next to Apple adverts and if they don’t they get censored.

In July last year Apple bought wraparound advertising on The Guardian's website and stipulated that the advertising should not be placed next to negative news.

A Guardian insider said that the headline of an article about Iraq on The Guardian's website was changed amid concerns about offending Apple, and the article was later removed from the home page entirely.

The Telegraph has claimed it is totally untrue, and yet its own staff appear to be leaking the news to the rival press.