How Apple Rumors Became Reality

Posted by Zonk on Thursday January 17, 2008 @09:44AM from the go-bloggers-go-blogging-inferno dept.

Lucas123 writes "Computerworld has a story on how bloggers, rumormongers and Web sleuths pulled together the story of the MacBook Air several days before Steve Jobs unveiled the laptop on stage on Tuesday, something that is nearly unprecedented in the annals of Apple announcements. 'Remember the sturm und drang that erupted after Think Secret revealed the coming of the Mac Mini, prompting Apple to take legal action to silence Think Secret? Is Apple off its game on keeping secrets now? Why was this year's secret leak different? In a word: teamwork.' This seems to be good case study on how to use information from sites like AppleInsider, 9to5mac.com and Ars Technica get a peek under the covers on future talks."

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Re:Pulled Together? by ZombieRoboNinja · 2008-01-17 11:47 · Score: 5, Informative

>>One of the best things about community driven FOSS projects is the lack of BS words like "revolutionary".

Google the following:
"Openoffice+revolutionary": 174,000 results.
"Bittorrent+revolutionary": 249,000
"Firefox+revolutionary": 435,000
"Linux+revolutionary": 441,000
"Richard+Stallman+revolutionary": 167,000

Whatever positive attributes the open-source movement might have, lack of hyperbole is not high among them.