TechCrunch Jizzes Over an Apple/Google Story, Again

Someone should call up Michael Arrington and his cadre of scro­tum – wash­ers over at TechCrunch and let them know that the “irra­tional Apple hatred” job is already taken by Rob Enderle, and Rob does a bet­ter job of it. Case in point, today’s post from so – called Apple expert M.G. Siegler under the head­line “Push Gmail Finally Comes To The iPhone, No Thanks To Apple.”

The back­ground to the story is that Google Sync, which is merely Microsoft Exchange ActiveSync, now sup­ports Google Mail. Before today, Google Sync could only sync con­tacts and cal­en­dars. Before I go on, take some time and click through to the Google Sync page. Once there, take note of the options in the choose your phone drop – down. Note that, in addi­tion to the iPhone there are a few other options, Blackberry, Nokia and Windows Mobile among them.

Now check out the TechCrap story. Brace your­self for the right­eous indig­na­tion being hurled at Research In Motion, Microsoft and Nokia due to their refusal to sup­port native Google push email. Wait, you say there is no such indig­na­tion? You say that the only com­pany the mon­key – feltch­ers at TechCrap bitch at is Apple. Well, sur­prise, sur – fuck­ing – prise.

Seriously, I don’t know what Doucheington and crew hope to gain by their blind­ingly obvi­ous cam­paign to turn every story that even tan­gen­tially involves Apple and Google into some sort of Watergate – like feat of inves­tiga­tive jour­nal­ism. I sup­pose that one could go with Occam’s Razor and assume that they’re just attempt­ing to uti­lize the Dvorak Method of link – bait­ing, and to that end I’ve aided them. But I sus­pect a deeper motive, what that is remains to be seen.