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I don't expect journalistic excellence from Gizmodo, but is it too much to ask to have at least one other person just proofread the thing?

"How does this guy who got in on the ground floor of Apple only to turn on them years later?"

I'm pretty sure a 6th grader could spot the problem with that sentence.

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This stalled me also, read it four or five times because I thought I was the one being retarded.

I don't mind spelling mistakes and poor grammar, as long as I can get the point of what the author is trying to say.

However half written sentences make me think you don't really know what you're talking about and I immediately begin to subtract credibility.

And to a lesser degree: "It was his job to shill the first Macintosh, and he did a pretty good job." "Job" twice is redundant. It's not a huge deal but it's just kind of lazy and sloppy.

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