Who’s afraid of Apple? Not Consumer Reports…
Interesting article on Business Week on the Consumer Reports magazine,
who test products on behalf of consumers and calls companies on their
bullshit marketing. http://www.businessweek.com/print/magazine/content/10_31/b4189058784981.htm The company started after the great depression, and the start was rocky “The founders’ mission was considered heretical at the time. Reader’s
Digest branded them dangerous subversives for challenging the veracity
of big business, writing, "They are out to discredit, if not destroy,
the system.” Good Housekeeping went so far as to accuse Consumer
Reports of extending the Depression.“
who test products on behalf of consumers and calls companies on their
bullshit marketing. http://www.businessweek.com/print/magazine/content/10_31/b4189058784981.htm The company started after the great depression, and the start was rocky “The founders’ mission was considered heretical at the time. Reader’s
Digest branded them dangerous subversives for challenging the veracity
of big business, writing, "They are out to discredit, if not destroy,
the system.” Good Housekeeping went so far as to accuse Consumer
Reports of extending the Depression.“