Comments on: Apple store takes reviews--but not of its own stuff

Apple will brook no criticism of its offerings on its new product review page--but praise and pan other makers' stuff all you like.

[socokid]

This is news?

A company providing a way for customer feedback on third party
items sold via their own site is news? Shouldn't we be thanking
them? I mean come on, if Apple (or ANY other company)
provided allowances to provide less than the maximum "Apples"
for their own stuff, then they might as well say, "We're not sure
it's the best". A company would never EVER allow that.

This "story" is quite silly.

Other companies aren't scared of their users

Are you serious? This story isn't news?

Just about EVERY other company that provides this kind of service doesn't restrict you from reviewing their products. Leave it to Apple and Mr. Megalomaniac Jobs to disallow reviewing Apple's own products.

What surprises me is that a biased news site like CNET even carried this story.

[sunergeos]

Good catch...

That's why I prefer to rumage through sites like Microsoft,
Intel, Dell, Oracle, HP, Gateway, Sony, Cisco, Sun, Palm,
Toshiba, etc., because they actually let us state an objective
opinion of their wares. When I need a review of a Microsoft
product I go to the Microsoft site and simply look up their
product site, read the posted reviews, cut and paste and I'm
ready to turn in my review.

I'm wondering if we could start a grassroots law suit to
address their truth in advertising violations. Unless they
start modeling their Web site like the rest of the industry
we should stick it to them - pronto!

Good catch , CNET. That's the award winning reporting we
have come to expect from you.

Wait a minute, this review may not get posted because it
isn't a CNET statement. Now what do we do?

[TekSavvy]

Why the Heck Not!

I have to say, Apple's choice to rate their own products may sound misleading but I think it makes a ton of sense. If I own a company that puts out a product, why would I say that it's anything less than perfect? It's good business sense if you ask me. We know that nothing is perfect but it's intelligent marketing. Besides, by way of comparison, Macs are incredible and I have been using Windows for 12 years and I've only had my iBook for about 6 months. By far, the best purchase I've ever made...

[nzamparello]

Talk about one sided!

hehehehe! This is rich... Any negative comments could be seen as defamatory and obscene.. ;-)

[montgomeryburns]

Tired of CNET's bias against Apple

Someone in CNET's editorial staff is blatantly anti-Apple. For a
comprehensive electronics news/review web site this behaviour
is completely inappropriate. I've been a loyal reader of cnet.com
for ten years and i'm absolutely tired of bi-weekly anti-apple
stories plastered all over cnet's front page. Bias such as this
should be limited to fraudulent sources of information such as
FOX.
CNET, you should be above this.