Last week PC World editor Harry McCracken quit his job after the magazine's new CEO, Colin Crawford, tried to kill a story titled "Ten Things We Hate About Apple." This week PC World has run the story, or at least a version of it. Prepare to be disappointed. Topping the list are Apple's lawsuits against rumor sites. Filling it out are the usual gripes: Incompatibility with PC formats, iWhatever product names, limited product options, no Blu-ray or HD DVD yet.
It would be easy to speculate that this is a neutered version of the story McCracken wanted to run. But it reads exactly like the piece PC World would do, with "Free Speech, Anyone?" topping a list that's largely about file formats. More likely the rift between McCracken and Crawford wasn't over this one story, but over who was ultimately in charge of what goes into the magazine, the editor-in-chief or the CEO. Now we know.
Ten Things We Hate About Apple [PC World]
Ten Things We Love About Apple [PC World]
