The thing that really twists my nips about Apple is all the free promotion they get on national TV. Here in the UK, we're constantly bombarded with 'news' about the latest products from Apple, or being shown a new 'App' on an iPhone like it's a revolution or something.

I don't recall the BBC news channel doing a feature on any other mobile phone launched by any other manufacturer in the last five years, and just look at all the fuss made by them about iPad. I accept that Maemo and N900 is pretty much chicken feed for geeks, but Android is fairly mainstream now, with much more reasonably priced handsets. I don't recall any 'wow look!' features on our news service about the HTC Desire, for example. I don't see any stories on BBC news bigging up the release of the N8 either, building up to fever pitch as the launch date approaches...

The free publicity Apple get from the media is sickening and biased. If the news channels aren't showing stories in equal measures featuring other brands, they should stop advertising Apple products. What are they, BBC or QVC?