Comments on: Cnet Aperture vs Lightroom Poll Bogus? (updated)

By: prophotoshow

prophotoshow — Mon, 10 Mar 2008 05:09:09 +0000

No it’s not fixed Jeff. We are having some problems with the in post poll however but it’s for LR as well as Aperture. If the poll does not work in post, you can still vote on the same poll in the left panel, or in the polls archive… Gav

By: Jeff

Jeff — Sun, 09 Mar 2008 18:58:06 +0000

for some reason, i can’t vote for Aperture…. now, i think this poll is fixed.
one up for Aperture

By: prophotoshow

prophotoshow — Wed, 05 Mar 2008 21:10:56 +0000

The in post polls seems to behaving some trouble. Have you tried the poll on the left.

Gav

By: Eugene

Eugene — Wed, 05 Mar 2008 19:28:05 +0000

For some reason I can’t vote in Mozilla…

By: Stephen Shankland

Stephen Shankland — Tue, 26 Feb 2008 22:07:31 +0000

In response to the “phony poll” Talkback posting in the commentary section below the poll itself, to which you referred above, I offered the following response yesterday:

http://www.news.com/5208-13580_3-0.html?forumID=1&threadID=35432&messageID=381872

In short, the poll isn’t an Apple ad, and we don’t claim that the poll is a statistically valid representation of the true views of the overall market. I’d have thought most folks who saw an online poll open to all comers guessed by now that it’s not something on which anyone should base their product decisions, marketing plans, or self-esteem.

I think it’s highly likely that Apple fans simply voted a lot. Apple, on its own initiative, posted links to the poll to http://www.apple.com/startpage/ and to http://www.apple.com/hotnews/

I encourage people to contact me directly when they have questions about this sort of thing. My e-mail address, stephen.shankland@cnet.com, is in the “About Underexposed” biography section on the right side of the page.