the verge.com editor gets all kinds of butthurt and meltsdown on twitter

[SAWYER]

http://nextshark.com/nilay-patel-apple-watch-review-bracelet-tantrum/


Lol wow

 

[Printer Bandit]

 

[DrPizza]

Sometimes, people learn by watching others that the correct reaction to good-natured ribbing isn't to have a meltdown. Thus, I see this meltdown as a positive thing. "Hey, kids, here's exhibit A of how you don't want to behave - it makes it worse for you."

 

[master_shake_]

white privileged amirite?

 

[MagnusTheBrewer]

Does anyone really care what Nilay Patel and Jean-Louis Gassée have say about anything? This makes me think of the gossip mags you read in the check out at the grocery store without the pictures and without names most people recognize.

 

[Printer Bandit]

while wearing a suit...lol

 

[clamum]

*cough*I actually like his bracelet*cough*

 

[ch33zw1z]

dude's trying to nail the hot topic chick, relax.

 

[Geekbabe]

Social Media suicide .. particularly for a person of his stature

 

[Exophase]

while wearing a suit...lol

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oc26EKhZNyM

"You are literally wearing a suit right now!"

 

[twinrider1]

Scream for me Cupertino!

 

[ch33zw1z]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oc26EKhZNyM

"You are literally wearing a suit right now!"

lol...

 

[Red Squirrel]

I think what's funny is the fact that something like this blows up big enough to be "all over the internet". Do people care that much about what some dude wears or says about it? I expect some memes to come out of this, too.

 

[Markbnj]

Immature kid in an adult body, apparently.

 

[GagHalfrunt]

I think what's funny is the fact that something like this blows up big enough to be "all over the internet". Do people care that much about what some dude wears or says about it? I expect some memes to come out of this, too.

It's not the wrist band that's the story and it's not the comment about said wrist band that's the story. It's the meltdown that's the story. If the idiot just ignored the comment nobody would have heard a peep about this. But he reacted like an angry drag queen who got told his ass looks fat in his favorite fishnet stockings and that turned it into a good story.

 

[waffleironhead]

Dude never learned the power of the implied bazinga.

 

[SheHateMe]

lol he is that upset that someone commented on his bracelet?

 

[touchstone]

I think I posted this story in the Apple Watch thread. He's just seems like such a jerk in the interview, the hosts are exited and telling him ways they want to use it and he basically calls them stupid and says 'but it has a charger you have to carry if you travel'. So?



The twitter rant is also lame. But I didn't like him much talking on video.

 

[Mixolydian]

It's a cultural thing.

 

[destrekor]

Ha.

His approach to things is probably why I am 50-50 when it comes to finding any value reading The Verge. I mostly just check through the recent feed when I am also checking other tech sites. I never knew who ran it, but it just seemed like someone who would turn out to be a drama queen, as usually an editor in chief has strong influence on content style/bias/spin.

There's a time to be a petulant child, and... more often than not, any given moment is not the time to be a petulant child.

It is really all summed up in that one response: "you give criticism, accept criticism." Especially when it was pointed out earlier to simply be criticism in jest for the most part. Most adults who are even remotely in the public spotlight realize it is always a good idea to demonstrate good judgment and be humbled by criticism, especially when you entire career is shaped around the concept of praise and criticism.

 

[Jodell88]

I thoroughly enjoyed that.

I expect negative articles on Apple in the future and Jean-Louis Gassée to be added to the block bot.

 

[core2slow]

Apple watch, lol.

 

[michal1980]

I love his 'I don't want to look like everyone else' comment... While he goes on using an iPhone, wearing an iwatch,

 

[Gunslinger08]

I forgot it's wrong to look like an old white dude..

 

[SAWYER]

Imagine if he said black guy instead of white