Can we please stop using "fake news"
... as a buzzword for anything from "groundless propaganda" to "spin that we personally disagree with"?
Or in this specific case, "historical revisionism"?
Real stories are complex, and there are many ways of looking at this one. Harford does make a valid point, even if he massively overstates it. To pretend that the iPhone sprang like Athena, perfectly formed from the head of Steve "Zeus" Jobs, is just as wankerly as the BBC's own bollocks.
Biting the hand that feeds IT
