The title says "3M's Floppy Disk", which implies that 3M created the floppy disk.
The subtitle calls 3M, "the high-profile creator of magnetic media", only later making it clear that this is also incorrect.
This also implies that 3M invented the floppy: "…3M started with the raw materials and the manufacturing processes, and combined those into computing’s greatest commodity item, the floppy disk."
Finally, the article notes that the only medium that 3M did have a hand in creating, the Floptical disk, flopped.
Assuming that the author even realizes that they're being ambiguous, I would've preferred that they didn't misrepresent 3M's role.
> The title says "3M's Floppy Disk", which implies that 3M created the floppy disk
If I put up a blog post about Robbiep’s spaghetti bolognaise, or Robbiep’s quadcopter, I don’t think anyone would misinterpret me as having invented those things. It’s an apostrophe of ownership, not an apostrophe of authourship.
The title says "3M's Floppy Disk", which implies that 3M created the floppy disk.
The subtitle calls 3M, "the high-profile creator of magnetic media", only later making it clear that this is also incorrect.
This also implies that 3M invented the floppy: "…3M started with the raw materials and the manufacturing processes, and combined those into computing’s greatest commodity item, the floppy disk."
Finally, the article notes that the only medium that 3M did have a hand in creating, the Floptical disk, flopped.
Assuming that the author even realizes that they're being ambiguous, I would've preferred that they didn't misrepresent 3M's role.