Gizmodo editor not upset that Apple didn’t provide iPad for review
For a niche that has such strong competition among blogs, there’s no doubt that Gizmodo and Engadget are by far the kings of gadget news. Gizmodo alone receives several million pageviews a day and recently broke the news that Google’s Eric Schmidt and Apple’s Steve Jobs had met outside a cafe. So imagine the surprise when Apple decided to “snub” (as some blogs put it) the editors at these publications by not sending them iPads to review. According to Business Insider, “Gizmodo editor Brian Lam was already on a plane to New York yesterday when Apple canceled on him at the last minute.” Some have speculated that Apple was trying to appeal to a more mass audience rather than gadget geeks who would just nitpick over its features. But were these gadget bloggers upset about the so-called “snub”? I emailed Gizmodo’s Brian Lam last night to request an interview, and he responded with this:
Hey Simon, I”d rather not comment on the story. Not much to it. They don’t owe us anything and we don’t owe them anything. No big deal.
You can quote me on that, actually.
Duly quoted.
