Apple bars Bloomberg from iPad event as payback for spy chip story

Authored by cultofmac.com and submitted by Smith_421

Apple and Amazon are already starting to make retaliatory moves on Bloomberg Businessweek for its claims that the two companies’ servers were hacked by China.

AdvertisementAmazon pulled its Q4 ads from Bloomberg’s website, cutting off significant ad revenue. Meanwhile, Apple has decided to give Bloomberg the old Gizmodo treatment — by banning the company from next week’s “There’s More in the Making” event.

Bloomberg usually attends all of Apple’s keynotes and has been given numerous exclusive interviews. Now the company will just have to watch the keynote like everybody else.

Buzzfeed reports that Bloomberg was not invited to Apple’s fall event. Apple declined to comment but the move is obviously a diss for not retracting the spy chip story.

How long Bloomberg’s banishment from Apple events will last is a good question. After Gizmodo published images of a leaked iPhone 4, Apple banned the publication’s reporters from keynotes for years. The site was only recently invited back to Apple events.

Apple CEO Tim Cook and Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos both called on Bloomberg to retract its Chinese spy chip story. Multiple security experts, the National Security Administration and the Department of Homeland Security have all said that there is no evidence to support Bloomberg’s claim that spy chips were installed on Apple’s and Amazon’s servers. Bloomberg continues to stand by the report, saying it came from more than a year of research and multiple sources.

dontsendmeyourcat on October 27th, 2018 at 14:27 UTC »

If the story was false then good, journalists should be held accountable for their accusations.

Also in today’s age, does it REALLY matter, Bloomberg can have something published 5 minutes after all the other sites posting from the event

Content_Policy_New on October 27th, 2018 at 14:25 UTC »

Apple, Amazon and Supermicro should sue Bloomberg for damages. I recall supermicro shares tanking due to this fake news so maybe investors should sue them too.

Commodus on October 27th, 2018 at 13:08 UTC »

I'm sure someone's going to get angry at this merely because it's Apple, but if you were an Apple exec and you were sure a story was both false and damaging (even if well-meaning), why would you give that outlet special access?