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Friday 9 November 2007, 11:48 AM
ITN thrown out of iPhone press conference for 'being rude'
News just in from the front line - UK TV news company ITN has just been thrown out of this morning's Apple iPhone press conference in London for 'being rude'. Apparently, the interviewer expressed some negative thoughts about the details of the 18 month contract - my informant reckons the word 'rip-off' was used - and the film crew was immediately shown the door. The ITN newsroom is agog: it's the sort of thing one might expect when dealing with President for Life Gzonk of Gzonkistan, but not normal behaviour during a product launch. Rumours that hundreds of black-poloneck wearing Apple ninjas are now keeping the editor of ITN under house arrest are not thought to be true.
There may be footage of this on the 12 o'clock news on Channel 4, so keep 'em peeled - and, as they say in TV, more as we get it.
(For readers outside the UK, ITN has been going since 1955, when it was set up to provide the news for the freshly-launched commercial TV channels set up to break the monopoly of the BBC).
PreviousComments on this post
For all the complaints about Microsoft, Apple is every bit as aggressive in it marketing and licensing. Even the Quicktime player always sits in the system tray and when you get rid of it, it asks for and update and hey-presto reappears.
The pricing policy on this phone is ridiculous: why you could buy that Asus EEE for less and thats a whole PC. If you have Skype on it then you should even be able to make phone-calls (courtesy of a Wifi connection.)
Its a pity no-one raves/reviews about Palm like they used to.
Right on two out of three there MattP.
The pricing of the 18 month contract IS an issue, but I don't think it is Apple's issue. Kinda like blaming petrol prices on Renault.
And as for raving about the PalmOS, I'm with you, but aren't Palm ditching the Palm OS on future devices?
My QT icon left the moment I ditched it. I think you may have it ticked-on in some settings box somewhere.
Yeah, Palm are going forward with Access, their mobile Linux play. Though they'd better get their act together if they want to steer off the Android threat...
its a shame they got thrown out, they did have a valid point; its insane that people are expected to folk out £1000+ on just the contract. I think the rest of us will just have to wait til they surface on eBay fully unlocked!
