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But Grubber was not invited to the Verizon iPhone announcement. https://twitter.com/gruber/status/24937327675580416

That was Verizon's event and they sent out the invites.

Which was actually an Apple Event in disguise. Gizmodo, Ryan Block and Leo Laporte were not invited.

Macworld wasn't invited to Verizon's iPhone event too.

My (uneducated) guess is that Verizon handled the event, but Apple passed along a blacklist to Verizon.