WTF Gizmodo

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Jesus Diaz for Gizmodo:

That weapon is Microsoft Surface. And it is beautiful. Beautiful and functional and simple and honest. Surface just bumped the MacBook Air and the iPad to the back seat…

Really? Remember this morning I said that New York Times article was really stupid — Jesus just took the stupid to a whole new level.

Then again, Giz seemed to like the PlayBook too.



  • Matthew Butch

    Didn’t realize a product that very few people could touch, that nobody knows when its coming out, and that nobody knows how much it will cost could knock back two of the biggest (actual) products in the past 5 years.

    I stand corrected!

  • http://www.facebook.com/Archetypal David Smith

    Giz likes page impressions. Articles like this are calls to action for every other blog on the planet to drive traffic to them.

  • Obsidian71

    You can take anything Jesus Diaz says…..no correction. Just ignore Jesus Diaz and do yourself a favor. I refuse to frequent Gizmodo because I’ve become the victim of more than one absolutely HORRIBLE Jesus Diaz article. Any site that would employ such an infantile writer is not a site I want to support in any way shape or form. That is all.

  • http://twitter.com/pishabh pishabh

    Hold on a sec, this was a machine that, from my count during the demo, crashed once, was unresponsive at least six times to finger input, and nobody know when it will ship or how much it will cost.

    Jesus H…Diaz

  • eselqueso

    I went to read the article on Giz and actually laughed out loud at the first sentence and then stopped reading.

    • Jens

      Its still a page view. Mission accomplished.

  • http://twitter.com/SuperRob Rob Stevens

    Ever since “iPhoneGate”, Gizmodo has had nothing but negative to say about Apple (with the sole exception of praise for the Macbook Pro with Retina Display). Jesus Diaz in particular has been overly critical. It’s gotten so bad that I’ve unliked Gizmodo on Facebook and have removed their feed from Google Reader. I’m on the verge of doing that with all Gawker sites, but I like Lifehacker quite a bit.

    Frankly, most of my tech reading has been replaced by The Verge now, supplemented on occasion by Engadget.

  • http://ObamaPacman.com ObamaPacman

    It seems very similar to the other “positive” articles. Probably based on the same press release Microsoft sent them.

  • eas

    I’ve been reading and thinking about Surface tonight. The headline on the Diaz piece made me snort.

    Near as I can tell, the Surface can’t even make a traditional windows notebook look obsolete. I mean, if one of the selling points of Windows 8 on a tablet is that it is full-blown Windows, then that implies that you are going to be using apps that are built for a keyboard and pointing device. Then look at that keyboard thingy. Basically, it turns the tablet into a laptop, but how is that actually going to work in your lap with the kickstand and lightweight base? And even if the keyboard is decent, that tiny trackpad looks like it is going to be horrible.

    The RT version might be interesting, but then you have a limited number of Metro apps to run on the thing.

  • http://robknight.net Rob Knight

    I use Readability’s URL shortening service (which also lets you read their cleaned version of the article) to read Gizmodo articles.

    Write your own punch line. :-)