{"id":34523,"date":"2005-08-18T10:00:09","date_gmt":"2005-08-18T10:00:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.msdn.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/2005\/08\/18\/lets-just-make-up-some-dollar-values-and-print-them-as-fact\/"},"modified":"2005-08-18T10:00:09","modified_gmt":"2005-08-18T10:00:09","slug":"lets-just-make-up-some-dollar-values-and-print-them-as-fact","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/20050818-09\/?p=34523","title":{"rendered":"Let&#8217;s just make up some dollar values and print them as fact"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Everybody is going nuts over a <a href=\"http:\/\/news.zdnet.com\/2100-1040_22-5830435.html\"> patent decision regarding the iPod interface<\/a>, but that&#8217;s not what I&#8217;m writing about (so don&#8217;t ask me for my opinion). Rather, I&#8217;m reacting to the claims being made by many people that <a href=\"http:\/\/digital-lifestyles.info\/display_page.asp?section=business&amp;id=2482\"> Apple will have to pay Microsoft $10 for every iPod<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p> What I want to know is where this amount &#8220;$10&#8221; came from. <\/p>\n<p> Multiple people are confidently reporting a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.randomhouse.com\/wotd\/index.pperl?date=19960705\"> sawbuck<\/a> as the amount in question. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.geekcoffee.net\/archives\/2005\/08\/apple_to_pay_mi.html\"> GeekCoffee<\/a> attributes it to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.appleinsider.com\">AppleInsider.com<\/a>, but a search of AppleInsider turns up no article where they assigned a monetary value to the issue. A site called <a href=\"http:\/\/www.trustedreviews.com\/article.aspx?art=1765\"> TrustedReviews<\/a> repeats the $10 price tag with no source. (&#8220;You don&#8217;t need a source. Just trust us!&#8221;) <a href=\"http:\/\/www.macnewsworld.com\/story\/gKfv32ZY30DN4h\/Apple-Patent-Loss-May-Earn-Microsoft-10-Per-IPod.xhtml\"> MacNewsWorld<\/a> even puts the amount in its headline, although the article gives no justification for how they arrived at it. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sky.com\/skynews\/article\/0,,30000-13411878,00.html\"> Sky News<\/a> helpfully converts the amount to &pound;6 but again provides no source for this value. <\/p>\n<p> Are people just <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.msdn.com\/oldnewthing\/archive\/2003\/09\/08\/54817.aspx\"> making up stuff and publishing it as fact<\/a>? Or is there some root source for this $10 amount that I&#8217;m missing and which nobody is bothering to cite? (My suspicion is that one person took a wild guess and everybody else decided to run with it.) <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Everybody is going nuts over a patent decision regarding the iPod interface, but that&#8217;s not what I&#8217;m writing about (so don&#8217;t ask me for my opinion). Rather, I&#8217;m reacting to the claims being made by many people that Apple will have to pay Microsoft $10 for every iPod. What I want to know is where [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1069,"featured_media":111744,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[26],"class_list":["post-34523","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-oldnewthing","tag-other"],"acf":[],"blog_post_summary":"<p>Everybody is going nuts over a patent decision regarding the iPod interface, but that&#8217;s not what I&#8217;m writing about (so don&#8217;t ask me for my opinion). Rather, I&#8217;m reacting to the claims being made by many people that Apple will have to pay Microsoft $10 for every iPod. What I want to know is where [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34523","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1069"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=34523"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34523\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/111744"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=34523"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=34523"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=34523"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}