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Too much iPhone?

Rory Cellan-Jones
10 Jun 08, 16:00 GMT

"Are the BBC right to GIVE hundreds of thousands of pounds worth of free publicity to Apple?" Just one of the complaints about our coverage of the 3G iPhone over the last 36 hours, which was seen by a few people as excessive. Well, my main job is to focus on mainstream TV and radio news outlets - and I haven't breathed a word about the story so far.

But I have been asked to address the complaints on the Editors' Blog - please go and have a look.

It's always difficult to know where to draw the line on coverage of new products - and we have plenty of vigorous discussions here about it. But here's a question for the critics - if we had completely ignored a story which was the talk of Twitter and all the tech blogs, and which generated huge traffic to our site, would we have retained much credibility as a supplier of technology news?

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This is dot.life - a blog about technology from BBC News.

Rory Cellan-Jones is the BBC's technology correspondent.
Maggie Shiels is the BBC's tech reporter based in Silicon Valley.