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Apple Blacklists "Rumor Promoting" Publications
Billy_D_Goat writes "Talk about control, Apple has now decided it can block users from recieving media passes at MacWorld Expo It blacklists these users by deciding if they run "rumor promoting" publications. This includs the webmasters of sites which have little to do with rumors or speculation such as Graphicpower.com/." Probably
just bitter cuz Steve's thunder seems to get stolen at every show, and
their lawyers can't seem to stop it ;)
No.
Apple didn't blacklist anyone; IDG did.
MacWorld isn't run by Apple. IDG is in charge of the show, and revoked the press passes.
Even sites like MacFixIt (which is NOT a rumor site) got their credentials pulled at first (but read below):
Get the facts please. Not saying I agree with IDG, but this is their doing, not Apple's. Maybe Apple's leaning on them, but they didn't pull the passes...
--NBVB
Snippet from MacFixIt:
Macworld Expo pulls press passes of Web sites Macworld Expo (apparently acting at Apple's request) has banned numerous Web sites (including MacFixIt) from getting press passes for Macworld Expo. This is so even in cases where the press pass had been previously approved.
Update: One press pass for MacFixIt arrived late today, despite our previously being told that MacFixIt was on a ban list. We are still waiting for one other. Perhaps there has been a change of position on this matter.
IDG was directed by Apple to blacklist the sites. Nathalie Welch, from Apple's PR group, directed which sites were on the list. I don't know where she got her list from, but it's interesting to note that she herself worked at MacWEKK magazine before coming to Apple, so this is in no small way one person calling the kettle black.
My guess is that Jobs told her to do it.
Kevin Fox
You can't read, can you? It's Apple, and then Apply forced IDG to take the heat because they weren't supposed to tell anyone it was Apple.
I'm not trolling...
Yes, yes you are. As a result, I'm ignoring your post save one point:
Everyone says look how stable the Apple OS is, of course, it only achived that by dropping all their old code and building upon BeOS.
Mac OS X has absolutely nothing to do with BeOS. Darwin is a combination of FreeBSD 3.2 and NeXTStep. BeOS got bought up by Palm, not Apple.
Assuming that statement in itself wasn't a troll to begin with, you may want to actually check your facts before forming yet another "Apple is only good because..." statement; like every other moron who dumps on Apple while not having actually used a Mac in the last five years.
Hippies smell.
To my recollection--and checking a few "computer history" websites seems to back me up--Osborne wasn't killed by rumor sites, Osborne was killed by itself.
The new machine you're referring to was the Osborne Vixen. It could read PC-DOS disks but wasn't PC-DOS compatible; it was another CP/M machine, touted as being better than a PC (and perhaps given 8086 and even some 80286 competition, it was). The Vixen was preannounced by Osborne itself, nearly a year before they were ready to go into production (perhaps because the machine was actually being designed by a consultant rather than in-house). People stopped buying the Osborne 1 waiting for the Vixen, yes, and that did contribute a lot to Osborne's collapse, yes... but that contribution was Osborne's own fault.