"Funny thing about Apple -- getting its PR drones to respond to even a friendly request is like trying to get a straight answer out of an oil company executive. Unless you're named Mossberg, Pogue, Levy, or Baig, all you generally get is the sound of crickets.

Other big companies range from pretty good (Dell, HP) to fair (Google, Microsoft) to awful (Amazon, Facebook) at getting back to those of us with "press" cards tucked into our hat bands, but Apple's contempt for the media is in a class by itself." | more