Sons how can we watch the annoucement live tomorrow???

[Apple-NoEscape]

Gizmodo is awesome, and the fact that they are the ones that did break the iphone story, shows that they have more journalistic guts and the will to chase/find stories than any of the rest copy-pasters.

Stop being fanboys and realize that if you pay something (ie, Apple), it ought to be your bitch, and to serve YOU and not the other way around.

Don't crap prototypes everywhere if you don't want them found, and don't design things wrong, if you don't want people to call them out as such. Simples.

Oh because you can definatly test to see if you product works as expected without bringing prototypes out into the open...oh...wait, you can't.

Also people really need to get it through their head companies are not there to please us, or serve us as you so bluntly put, but to make money off us. If what they offers makes us happy then great. I understand apple have came out with a pretty crap design this time round, which is there to look nice but isn't really user friendly, many of us aren't happy with it, but did apple still fulfill their primary objective of making money?

 

[Nykwil]

Son, I am disappoint.

 

[Rob Mclovin]

It's illegal to use a device to jam signals, not to prohibit use of wifi or block IR signals through walls, which can be achieved by using a room with no signal or using IR blocking paint (not sure if it's available yet, heard about it some time ago).

Lol i doubt the conference center will have IR blocking paint...

 

[redman042]

I expect a Tiger Woods style closed-door press conference with a tightly-controlled invite list. Steve Jobs will close the conference by stating "Now please give us some privacy during this difficult time..."

 

[tirk]

You do realize these guys aren't journalists right? They are bloggers. Big difference.

I was with you up to this point, but I have to disagree with this. There is a bell curve of both bloggers and journalists that overlaps heavily. The worst journalists are waaaay worse than the best bloggers, on almost any rational scale.

 

[Fidget08]

Engadget had THAT chance.

Well its probably good they didnt take it cuz they have a really good liveblog.

 

[jfyrfytr25]

Where did engadget have the chance to get the iPhone? Link? Yes, they did break the law but Apple did choose to not send them an invite to the WWDC. Kinda teenagerish too, but not as much as giz.

http://www.notebooks.com/2010/04/19/apple-on-leaked-iphone-its-stolen/


here is just one article I found. it is in the first paragraph that engadget was offered it first.

 

[palmerc2]

they may block Wifi

but you know a lot of those people have 3G cards in their laptops.....who knows.....

 

[phrint]

I was with you up to this point, but I have to disagree with this. There is a bell curve of both bloggers and journalists that overlaps heavily. The worst journalists are waaaay worse than the best bloggers, on almost any rational scale.

I can see your point there. Not a lot of unbiased journalism or blogging happening today. It's up to the reader to be critical of what they are reading. Either way, it's not too tough to see a bias or crappy reporting in an article.