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Comment by detaro | Hacker News Reader

Does it really need pointing out that a headline on huawai.com is a claim by Huawai?

It's less that it's a claim by Huawei and more that the claims haven't been verified independently. Competitive benchmarking has a long history of results which are hard to reproduce and comparisons which “accidentally” left the competing product in an unusual state, so it's prudent to distrust them until they can be verified independently.

It's a press release. They're always worded like that.

I am not sure what industry you are in but if you go read press releases from the likes of most of the networking companies you see all the time “bob networking unveils the biggest flubar...” or the like as standard practice. Heck I have had to edit some of these for technical correctness before the marketing team puts their foot in it..

Where are you looking?

For Cisco, their press releases seem to be here: https://newsroom.cisco.com/pressreleases

I haven't looked through all of them because I'm lazy, but scrolling through them I haven't yet found one that isn't in the 3rd person.

And in case anyone is wondering why they do that: press releases are intended to be used in an article verbatim. Headline and all. Press releases are written from third person perspective because that's how a reporter would write it.

And if you go on Google and search some text from a press release, you'll find tons of articles using the headline and body completely verbatim like it's their own article. This is intentional.

It's absolutely standard to do that for press releases.

>I'm not sure why Huawei did this.

Because that's how you do press releases.

News outlets print them verbatim, and it's traditional to read like that (as opposed to e.g. "we released a CPU" which on a news outlet it would make it seem like the outlet's team released the CPU").

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