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I imagine the use of 'biggest' is meant to highlight the size increase explicitly, versus your typical hyperbolic marketing.


The problem is that it draws attention to the fact that other than literally a size change, there is not terribly much that makes this an unusually "big" update.


I guess. They can't all be the 'biggest' though. And the subtlety is in fact the play on typical marketing-speak, which, as evidenced by the parent comment here -- and many others -- is typically ingested wholesale by the consuming public.

I imagine AAPL are not worried about turning off the hyper-literal critics amongst the crowd.

Good lord, what am I doing debating/discussing a marketing headline... Anyway.


Oh, don't get me wrong. I don't mean to fault them for not changing much; sometimes there simply isn't a lot that should be changed. I just think it wasn't a particularly bright wording.




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