Channel 4 News iPhone interview interrupted by Apple

The moment Apple lost patience with Channel 4 News after their reporter Benjamin Cohen asks them why iTunes is built into the phone.

Category:

Science & Technology

Tags:

• apple
• iphone
• ipod
• itune
• channel
• news
• four

[lohphat]

Th reporter should have asked: "Is this an interview or a scripted advert?"

[mfraz74]

You wouldn't get this on the BBC, they'd be too scared to get into Apples bad books!

[LeClassics]

Just got this link from the BBC article

amazing that the press (guardian, BBC) still idolise the company in the amount of press their columnists give, which shows obvious bias compared to other tech companies, esp. based on market share.

[mrvirtu0so]

@mfraz74 too bad i just read about it in a bbc article...

[HelmutVillam]

Nazis of the technology world.

[vecuccio]

Cunts. They are fucked now Jobs is dead.

[517anon]

Robots. Apple sucks. 

[gratefuldrake]

I like having itunes integrated, i don't mind paying for content, I'm in PR, and i would have done the same thing (though maybe a bit more subtley). The journalist most certainly knew he'd get shot down, but of course he had to try. who cares. this happens daily at all companies.

[MrMarkhall1]

@IntoTheDavyDark The music industry was in deep shit? News to me.File sharing has cost Artists dearly.Now if you want to make millions as a rock star you've got to play live gigs.Apple have made a lot of money using their monopoly, but so have microsoft and thinking about it, your local supermarket.Itunes is not the best music site out there, there are plenty of others,they just have good marketing.This site YT, is the biggest bandit of them all,but don't you love it.

[IntoTheDavyDark]

@517anon iTunes killed the physical music industry? Really? 'Cause I'm pretty sure the music industry was in deep shit long before iTunes came on the scene. iTunes saved the music industry by getting people to pay for digital content. Without iTunes, the music industry would be much worse off than it is. Maybe you should think about what you're saying before you post such utter shit.

[q8trading]

@coresnake0 totally different situations. MS used its monopoly in the OS market to gain control in different market (browsers) using illegal methods such as making their competitors browsers (Netscape) buggy and slow. I was around and I debated it many times. Apple did not and cannot use their large market share in MP3 players (iPod) and jukebox software (iTunes) to gain market share in the smartphone market. It is not just possible. The proof! Now four years later Apple cut the cord with iOS 5.