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Gizmodo Not Welcome at 2010 WWDC
recoiledsnake writes "Gizmodo is reporting that Apple has refused to answer its request to attend the company's big Worldwide Developers Conference keynote this Monday. Apple's move to ban Gizmodo seems a direct repercussion of Apple's prototype leak by Gizmodo and subsequent actions of Apple to get the prototype back. Meanwhile, Gizmodo said that it would resort to a live blog to cover the event in case of the ban. This comes a few days after San Mateo County authorities announced that a 'special master' had been appointed to assist in the search of Gizmodo editor Jason Chen's belongings: goods seized as part of a police investigation into the disappearance (and Gizmodo acquisition) of one of Apple's prototype iPhones. It's the very device that's rumored to be announced at the Monday keynote."
LOLFRISTPOSRT no to trigger lolz
Gizmodo crossed the line, you do not bite the hand that feeds you. They need to be taught a lesson.
I know steve jobs makes Apple a ton of money (and saved the company), but I'm not sure he's not evil. In the long run, his decisions (app store bans, gizmodo ban, safari extensions, iphone deal with the devil / tiered data plan) are going to hurt Apple.
Okay, so Gizmodo misses out on the industry trade show equivalent of the pride parade. So what?
So journalists play a prank on another company so the company should be banned from a media event? By that logic we should outlaw Google for pulling their "We're now called Topeka" April Fools joke on MILLIONS of people.
This stuff happens when you leave things like secret prototypes lying around Starbucks; it's not the news media's fault that they write about it. It is by way of being their job.
Years ago, a California politician used whiteout to cover over the names of some campaign contributors whom they thought had better remain nameless. Then they copied their financial reports, kept the copies, and mailed the original whited-out version to the Fair Political Practices Commission. Shame on them. They got bad press.
HEIL APPLE!
That's seriously what it's coming down to. Apple is going to drive away so many people with their closed-minded situation. Can they not see this? Can they not see the global trend toward free and open? Or do they just not care for the sake of profit and propriety?
I'm done with them. Go to hell Jobs. Take that shitty King Sized iPhone-sans-phone with you.
If the only way you can accept an assertion is by faith, then you are conceding that it can't be taken on its own merits
The CES organizers only grudgingly gave bloggers press credentials to the conference, and even then kept them segregated into a working lounge that was a step down in amenity and luxury from the "press" lounge and work area.
Its funny how people tend to act exactly the way you treat them. I don't think the prank was a good idea, but I sure as hell would lash out if I was the victim of segregation. And back on topic, Apple just made enemies out of Gizmodo for life. I don't care if you're wearing a black turtleneck during the middle of summer; pissing on the press is bad business.
You can shut the fuck up too.
Google shows 643 news stories referencing Gizmodo. That's roughly half as many stories as those about the terror arrests at an NYC airport. And the Developer conf. hasn't even begun. This is how Apple gets even? Reminds of the mafia guys who shot a rival in the skull and left him in the trunk of a Caddy parked in Hunters Point. Said guy showed up at their trial with a band-aid on his head, testifying his ass off. But, as someone quite correctly said, "Fuck PR." This is a technical board, so somebody tell me how Gizmodo's servers have thus far avoided being slashdotted into scorched earth.
Why is /. wasting our time on this? It's not at all surprising.
Oh, yeah, yet another baseless opportunity to dump on Apple.
Apple's the new Microsoft so you damn well should care.
What does this remind you of?
http://www.webmonkey.com/2010/06/apples-html5-showcase-less-about-web-standards-more-about-apple/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+wired%2Findex+(Wired%3A+Index+3+(Top+Stories+2))
"When information is power, privacy is freedom" - Jah-Wren Ryel
I'm loving all of the Gizmodo hate by all of you pencil-dicked, iPad toting, peterpuffing Apple lovers that think Apple is OMGSOFUCKINGCOOL since they released OS X. Yeah Gizmodo certainly isn't the pinnacle of journalism but for fuck's sake... Are you fucking kidding me? Especially all of you dickwads that still insist on saying that they stole that iPhone. The entire lot of you can go drown in a septic tank.