Josh Quittner, the editor of Business 2.0 magazine, notes that business writers for Newsweek and USA Today who have written positive books about Apple are among those who received advance versions of the new iPhone to write a review before its Friday launch.
Quittner’s magazine, on the other hand, did not receive one in advance.
“He appears as the talent on Apple ‘geek cruises’ for crying out loud. (Though in his defense, he says he doesn’t take any pay for these gigs, but instead enjoys a discounted cruise vacation for himself and his family.) Oh, and, in the interests of full disclosure, Edward Baig, of USAT, wrote Macs for Dummies and iPhones. And Steven Levy wrote the books Insanely Great: The Life and Times of the Macintosh, the Computer that Changed Everything and The Perfect Thing, a great book about the iPod phenomenon.
“I am sure this had absolutely nothing to do with why Steve Jobs decided to give these guys review units two weeks before the rest of us, who are clearly on the C team (and the C, here, I can tell you, stands for chopped liver.)”
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