Lots of tech reviews will also not say anything bad, for instance anyone critial of Apple won't get access to their events, products, and will be blacklisted.
You can't trust these publications at all anymore.
Dude, it's a company that makes consumer goods. It's not the government refusing to credential a reporter.
If you are actually an objective news company trying to evaluate a product, then do what Consumer Reports does and go to the open market and buy the generally available product for the full retail price, and then evaluate it. That is a requirement to be an honest broker not influenced by a vendor, which is why Consumer Reports does it. So make up your mind as to whether you want to be a journalist that is independent or whether you are willing to compromise and do P.R. work for apple in exchange for early access.
This is just a list of issues and articles that came to my mind. Every of these sites also criticized the thermal of the last intel macbook pros and all hated the touchbar and all of them are still reporting on apple on exactly the day the embargo lifts. wtf are YOU on about?
If you don't cherry pick there are enough critical articles and critical comments in every review (You said there aren't in your first comment.
You are totally right they must have a giant blacklist if blacklisting is for you not to send demo units of unreleased products to every outlet. THE BLACKLIST IS GIGANTIC DUDE.
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Gamers nexus, which is a top reviewer, have mentioned they dont get some products due to their critical take. It's not an unreasonable or outlandish view at all. Its ridiculous to be so aggressive against another person just to protect a brand. Do you perhaps work for or have shares in Apple? I cannot fathom why someone would be so desperate to protect the image of a billion dollar company otherwise.
No one is entitled to get early access to non released hardware. The outlets that do get access usually sign NDAs and they are not allowed to take demo units apart and you know what GAMERNEXUS also says in their videos that they don't sign these NDAs. If he had the chance to sign it it seems he decided to not do it not the other way around. The spirit of HN was that it's usually pretty good moderated against trolls and flamebaits like the guy above.
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You can't trust these publications at all anymore.