“Apple has just sent out its invitations to an event on September 9th. You can expect at least one iPhone, and possibly an iWatch as well,” Brian Barrett reports for Gizmodo. “And hey… we’ll be there!
“While in the past Apple invites have included adorable clues about what to expect, this year’s version leaves things at a simple ‘Wish we could say more,'” Barrett reports. “Which could mean a focus on Siri, but is more likely just garden-variety coyness.”
Barrett reports, “We’ll be covering the event live for the first time since 2009.”
Read more in the full article here.
MacDailyNews Take: What would Steve do? Very highly likely, not this. Tim Cook’s grudge-holding capability obviously pales in comparison to Jobs’. Is that a good thing or not?
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That’s for Gizmodo to decide, based on their subsequent behavior. As far as Apple is concerned, I think taking the high road and forgiving past transgressions is more in line with their brand’s image, or at least the image they want to project.
Actually, using the Flint Center, which is a concert hall, (instead of the usual Moscone venue) allows several times as many attendees. So, I think what really happened here is “the bar was lowered” for who gets invited and how who not. And Gizmodo “made the cut…” 🙂
This was a fsck-up. Someone in Apple PR has dropped the ball, now that Katie Cotton isn’t there anymore.
-jcr
Grudes only hurt the holder in the long run.
My take is that the “Wish we could say ‘more.’” means that the ‘more’ (another device) will also be announced on September 9th, in addition to the expected iPhone 6 model(s).
Maybe some time between last year and now, everyone at Apple has lost the ability to use the word “more”. So, they wish they could say it, because they’re currently unable to.
Sorry stand up comedy isn’t for you
YES – that’s it. Instead, during the presentation, Tim Cook will say, “Oh and one additional thing.”
Because nobody is allowed to say, “one more thing” now that Steve is gone.
Or it could mean that they wish they could say more, as in more phones, but the 5.5″ didn’t work out and they will only be launching one.
if you don’t like Gizmodo, don’t click the link cause there is no extra information on their page. (That is if you still hold a grudge.)
I clicked already….so just posted “So, did you guys learn your lesson?” 😉
I know a lot of Apple fans who are Gizmodo readers. I think this was a good move. There’s no benefit to anyone to hold a grudge against Gizmodo. Other companies have harmed Apple (Samsung, Google), and they definitely deserve having a grudge held against them. Gizmodo went way too far with how they exploited that iPhone 4 prototype that they knew was Apple’s property, and Apple went a little too far as well. It all balances out.
I actually stopped reading the Giz once they couldn’t attend the events. Oops
There are non-Apple related subjects posted at Gizmodo. I don’t go there often myself, but it’s very useful for getting general tech news.
I stopped reading them when the redesigned and wrecked their readability. But they were also run by a bunch of man-children back there who would do things like go to trade shows and interrupt stage demos by using a remote to shut off TV screens. Then of course there was the whole issue of buying stolen prototypes. I didn’t hold that against them. And I thought it was kind of childish of Apple to hold a grudge. But their PR person back then was kind of a petulant child, like Steve, when they felt Apple was wronged. (Remember when Steve yanked ATI video cards out of his Steve Note announcing the cube because some idiot at ATI jumped the starting gun?)
But Gizmodo, despite being man-children, were also Apple fanboys, so Apple should have swatted their hands and been done with the issue. Glad to see Apple has taken the higher road. Finally. Now let’s see if Gizmodo has grown up yet.
Punishment over. I’m sure Steve Jobs didn’t ground his kids indefinitely either.
Looks like Gizmodo served its four minute major penalty for high sticking. And they’re back in the game.
Love or hate them, Gizmodo and its related sites (Gawker, Jalopnik, iO9, Jezebel, etc., etc.) have become a force. They get a lot of eyeballs and secondary coverage. They can be snotty and sophomoric, but surprisingly, they often have good things to say about Apple. That won’t stop them from doing sleazy things or being too quick to judge (remember their first comments on the iPad when it was introduced?). But often, surprisingly, they have some good articles.
We fanboys are swift to defend Apple. I get that. But this move shows that Tim Cook wants a different approach to PR post-Katie Cotten. That’s apparent. My fingers are crossed that this works out.
By the way, on the announcement for the September 9 event: did you notice a .0000005 micron chamfer in the right side of the curve of what appears to be the upper part of the apple in the invitation? Given that every other pundit is dissecting this for clues, damnit, I thought I should jump in with more stupidity and tea leaf reading. I think this microscopic chamfer tweak is quite significant, one that holds deep clues of great magnitude relating to the upcoming announcements, whatever the hell that means.
Remember, you read that here first. And I want full credit.
There. I feel better now.
Brian, who are you? WELCOME! Again a great post! Please stick around.
Apple had to invite Gizmodo as Gizmodo was unable to buy a found lost in a bar iPhone 6 to scoop a story with and the folks at Gizmodo will have to wait until Sept. 9th like the rest of us!
Made me go back and look at what Steve Jobs did have to say (the June 2nd Macdailynews article above) and I just thought I’d post the video here with the relevant quotes:
http://video.allthingsd.com/video/d8-steve-jobs-on-the-gizmodo-story/B4064FE4-988A-4220-AC9C-922D79507119
“When this whole thing with Gizmodo happened… I got a lot of advice from people that said:
‘You’ve got to just let it slide, you shouldn’t go after a journalist because they bought stolen property and they tried to extort you.’
And I thought deeply about this… And I ended up concluding that the worst thing that could possibly happen, as we get big and we get a little more influence in the world, is if we change our core values and start letting it slide. I can’t do that. I’d rather quit. We have the same values now as we had then. We’re maybe a little more experienced – certainly more beat up – but, but the core values are the same. And we come into work, wanting to do the same thing today as we did five or ten years ago – which is build the best products for people.
You know, there’s nothing that makes my day more than getting an email from some random person in the universe who just bought an iPad over in the UK, and tells me the story about how it’s the coolest product they’ve ever brought home, you know, in their lives.
That’s what keeps me going.
And it’s what kept me going five years ago, it’s what kept me going ten years ago when the doors were almost closed. And it’s what’ll keep me going five years from now whatever happens.”
Steve Jobs, June 1st 2010 – RIP
I bet there’s a “greeter” at every entrance instructed to welcome any Gizmodo rep in the nuts.
Laugh Of The Day Award! 😆
Considering that Gizmodo’s dirty doings with the iPhone are now standard practice, mainly thanks to China, Criminal Nation, why not make up and be friends?
If Microsoft wasn’t funding Gizmodo for its analism services, it wouldn’t even exist.
Must have been a big typo mistake on the invite list. Gizmodo is a bunch of sleaze hacks. Should have been a permanent BAN till the end of the UNIVERSE itself.
Absolute much?
When they start inviting The Register, and Andrew Orlowski in particular, then we will certainly know that Apple does not hold any grudges, justified or not.
It wasn’t just that Gizmodo had bought stolen merchandise, there were other serious shenanigans they used to do… like disabling monitors with a remote during CES demos.
For all of that, I think it was very wise to ban Gizmodo.
However, Gizmodo has really grown up and changed in many ways. They have an audience comprised mostly of influencers that is somewhat important for Apple to reach.
I just hope someone at Apple had a serious talk with Gizmodo and made it clear on what wouldn’t be tolerated moving forward, although I think Gizmodo already knows.
— PR has to be assertive and pro active.
The stock drop a few years ago was due in part to Apple’s PR lack of force in addressing B.S from the press (who want to get Page hits) to stock manipulators like Doug Kass a hedge fund guy who appears on CNBC (making false comments to play aapl like a yo yo).
Recently Apple’s more pro active PR stance coinciding with Katie Cotton’s leaving has protected Apple’s image better (BTW the head of Apple USA marketing also ‘left’ Apple in the same week) . Apple responded fast to the book Haunted Empire, to erroneous claims by the EU, Chinese govt etc.
The Chinese state channel’s false claim of Apple spying got an an apple press release within one day! Astonishing. Apple previously had left stuff like NYT bashing, Mike Daisey etc go unanswered leaving Apple’s image in the dog heap. People don’t understand how these false information can tip over creating an avalanche , people say Apple’s ‘shouldn’t bother’ with small fry like Daisey BUT he got so popular he appeared on big news outlets as an ‘expert’ guest, NPR wanted to devote a whole program to him, the Woz was opening his shows — and the all the while his facts as shown later were fabricated. Daisey was so successful that just a couple of weeks ago I saw a news agency rank apple as the number one labour offender overseas basing I guess on the ‘Mike Daisey investigations’ instead of apple having the best most transparent foreign labour policies.
Apple’s recent PR assertiveness like Tim Cook calling Haunted Empire nonsense, Eddy Cue writing that Jobs never threw things at him, stopping that book in its tracks (the author was scheduled to appear in numerous news channels as a guest ‘expert’) as halted a lot of the nonsense directed at apple helping the stock recover (manipulators have less room to play if their lies are stopped quickly) .
— The above said Apple’s ‘forgiveness’ of Gizmodo is an interesting move. Gizmodo has been giving reasonably fair coverage of Apple since being banned BUT I THINK IT’S BECAUSE THEY WANT TO GET OFF APPLE’S BAN LIST. I also think Apple bashing by OTHER news outlets since the ban has also been ameliorated by them seeing Gizmodo’s ‘punishment’.
Apple’s ‘forgiveness’ (in the real world of cold hard cash page hit journalism) is that they have to make it clear that patently false anti apple b.s will IMMEDIATELY PUT THAT NEWS OUTLET INTO A SHIT LIST. they don’t get pre-release products to review (Mossberg, Pogue etc get pre release models sometimes weeks before they are launched to study them) don’t get invites, don’t get interviews etc. These things are very VALUABLE $$$ to to these news purveyors, note apple is the largest tech firm the world , gets the most page hits on most items, the world including non apple users are intensely interested in it , Apple is like the hottest movie star today: access to it is valuable. (an exclusive interview with a movie star can be worth millions of dollars).
I’m sorry (for all the bleeding hearts out there ) but the world and big business is a tough rough place to be — you can try to be source of societal good, act nice etc — but you always also have to watch your back. Like politics. How many times we’ve seen good politicians not get elected because of bad P.R while some asshat gets elected because of effective P.R B.S, so P.R is important. When Steve Jobs was around especially when he was fully healthy he was a PR and Marketing GENIUS — then Apple PR slid for some years — Apple has to RE-learn it now. So far the last while it has been good, lets see how the Gizmodo thing works — Apple just keep the Big Stick held up in the other hand…
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( I use to work in PR and advertising. )
shoot, apologizes never realized the above post was so long!
could have taken the whole first part out,
was trying to multitask and posted from dialog box without checking. No edit feature in MDN.
Excellent post, transcendent in fact. No apology required
I just examined my invite under black light.
Wish I could say more.