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Apple vs Bloggers
Moby Cock writes "Jason O'Grady has posted a story on his ZDNet blog detailing the state of the current legal trouble he is embroiled in with Apple. He views it as another salvo in Apple's efforts to stamp out rumour sites posting 'trade secrets' prior to the official announcements. The discussion becomes rather pointed and goes as far as to suggest that the case is really a case in support of freedom of the press." From the article: "At issue was a series of stories that I ran in October 2004 about an upcoming product that was in development. Was it the next great PowerBook? Maybe the a red hot iPod? Maybe a killer new version of the OS? Nah. The stories about a FireWire breakout box for GarageBand, code-named 'Asteroid.' Yawn."
> red hot ipod.
And people thought black didn't really match the iMacs.
"Everything worth innovating today will go to court tomorrow."
Powerpage has such a poor prediction record that I'm amazed that he actually did score a genuine leak. I guess this is supposed to boost credibility for the other 99 percent of Powerpage predictions that come from some combination of monkeys flying out of his butt and rereadings of Nostradamus.
The question is whether Steve Jobs authorized the leak. Cause then it's not a leak. Well, it is still a leak, but not one of those illegal kind. But then, of course, reporting it would be encouraged, cause, remember, it's not really a leak (the illegal kind, that is).
Paul Grosfield - the quicker picker upper.
When I was at Apple, I had no problem keeping secrets from leaking from Engineering. Every time I disclosed information to a new person on the project http://www.apple.com/airport/, I started the meeting by saying that if you spoke to anyone about this project you would be fired. Remarkably, no problems.
Yes, but to be fair, it does take MicroSoft abour 24 to 36 months to re-innovate Apple's design features into their products. That's plenty of time for Apple to make money and then release new innovations.
Transistors and Beer!!