On: The Verizon iPhone 4

[Jonnyrealed]

Apple invited Gruber as press to the iPhone 4 Antennagate conference last year. He was also invited to the opening of the Philly Apple Store. Apple isn't the only one reaching out to Gruber — Google sent him a Nexus S for review as well (which I don't think he ever got around to writing).

[37prime → Jonnyrealed]

But Grubber was not invited to the Verizon iPhone announcement. https://twitter.com/gruber/status/24937327675580416

[Jonnyrealed → 37prime]

That was Verizon's event and they sent out the invites.

[37prime → Jonnyrealed]

Which was actually an Apple Event in disguise. Gizmodo, Ryan Block and Leo Laporte were not invited.

[Jonnyrealed → 37prime]

Macworld wasn't invited to Verizon's iPhone event too.

[rufo → Jonnyrealed]

My (uneducated) guess is that Verizon handled the event, but Apple passed along a blacklist to Verizon.