Comments on: Dropping Hints

By: diesel

diesel — Mon, 08 May 2006 16:43:05 +0000

i’m new to this site and i kinda like it so far. it’s not as heavy as daringfireball so tis is a nice break from heavy analysts crapping words whenever they can.

keep up the good work!

By: Brian Donohue

Brian Donohue — Mon, 08 May 2006 16:42:17 +0000

Put it in perspective: TS is basically a gossip, Enquirer-style site for Mac geeks. Clearly, Apple wouldn't waste money on lawyers and court costs to sue them if they weren't annoyed, at least once in a while, by their tactics and reporting. To that extent, TS is doing what journalism should be doing--being a gadfly on a big corporation's nose. But yes, it helps in the gadfly business to be reasonably accurate most of the time. I'm ready to cut them a break on this one, because I had predicted back in December that the Jobs crew would go single-core with consumer models (iBook and iMac and Mini) first. Clearly, I was wrong, though I don't claim to have info from Apple insiders.

By: Josh Pigford

Josh Pigford — Mon, 08 May 2006 15:09:14 +0000

Chase: this post just shows how much crap this site is

Thanks for the insight…

By: Karuel

Karuel — Mon, 08 May 2006 14:45:06 +0000

I cannot wait for these new books.

(Note: Who cares if it was deliberate or not?)

By: DocB

DocB — Mon, 08 May 2006 14:15:26 +0000

Word of mouth advertising goes further faster on the web.

By: Dave

Dave — Mon, 08 May 2006 12:34:12 +0000

You’re absolutely correct. Apple routinely provides these “leaks” just prior to the release of something new. Why pay for advertising when legions will rumor sites will do it for free? We’re talking about it now, aren’t we?

By: Gareth Potter

Gareth Potter — Mon, 08 May 2006 11:38:59 +0000

hehe, nice to get some acerbic comments to a post for once. David, you note correctly that one of Apple's web sites was hacked recently - it was the Korean one. But it is surely obvious that the hacking of a site is something quite different from what we have here. A site can be professionally maintained by a company's web team whilst being run on a hideously insecure web server, whose responsibility might well be in the hands of a different department, i.e. IT. In the Apple Korea case, it was IT that cocked up, not the web team. Roland, whilst I am mindful of that great aphorism, I beg to differ. Make no mistake, this was deliberate. I suppose it is plausible that it was the act of an individual in the web team, rather than a conscious act by Apple's marketing department, but given the anticipation it has generated, I think it could go either way. I simply cannot believe that a glitch like that would be allowed to go live and remain so for quite some time.

By: david

david — Mon, 08 May 2006 09:26:21 +0000

Roland is spot on. it’s probably you who is delusional if you think that Apple or any large company is immune to such mistakes because of their “tight control” or professionalism. One of Apple’s web site’s was just recently hacked, so I hope that dispels any notion that they are operating in a tightly controlled environment. Your attacks on Think Secret seem strangely venomous…crazy post. No digg.

By: Chase

Chase — Mon, 08 May 2006 07:59:42 +0000

this post just shows how much crap this site is

By: Roland Dobbins

Roland Dobbins — Mon, 08 May 2006 02:58:45 +0000

Your comment Big companies do not make visible coding cockups like that on live web sites.’ is demonstrably false. Big companies, including Apple, make mistakes of this type from time to time – Google is your friend.

To paraphrase Napoleon, never ascribe to cleverness that which can be explained by mere incompetence.