well, i never really did the reality check on this, but engadget has a reputation of being very apple-friendly in general (=running a lot of apple-related stories, that is). if this is true, its only logical they attract a lot of apple/iphone users.

i have the same effect on my blog: even though it's more of a "me and my cat"-blog and not technical, you'll find a few stories there about something i did with GNU/linux on my desktop or a positive experience i made with my nokia internet tablet.

the result is that 64% of all mobile devices i see visiting my blog are nokia internet tablets (winCE: 13%, iPhone: 10%, series60: 10%). overall, 14% of my visitors use GNU/Linux, which of course is completely out of proportion compared to the actual market. (i have 78% windows users and 6% mac users)

so if even the few technical articles i write can cause such a bias, on a big site like engadget, an apple-friendly policy could lead to a similar effect, only much stronger.