It’s easy to see the imminent shutdown of Think Secret, the Apple rumor site, as a victory in Apple’s war against leaks and a deterrent for others who want to report aggressively about a company. But that’s not how Nick Ciarelli, the Harvard senior who founded the blog when he was 13, sees it. “I see this lawsuit as something that should be encouraging for online journalists who are asserting their first amendment rights, even when their reporting draws the ire of large corporations,” he told me from his cellphon... lire la suite
It’s easy to see the imminent shutdown of Think Secret, the Apple rumor site, as a victory in Apple’s war against leaks and a deterrent for others who want to report aggressively about a company. But that’s not how Nick Ciarelli, the Harvard senior who founded the blog when he was 13, sees it.
Apple Rumors That Never Came True
A few rumors for WWDC have cropped up this week, with nothing but faith to back 'em up. Most of the facts are obvious progressions and externalizations of the fanboy-tasies, or things known before, but here are some particulars I thought worth passing on: TG Daily reports that the 3G iPhone will be in 8, 16 and 32GB flavors from $399-$599 in cost, with a 2.
Alright, we know what you’re thinking; Rose wasn’t all that on point last time he dished about Apple. That’s true, but he has a decent track record and some of what he talks about in this latest round of link fishing coincides with rumors that have been floating around for a while.
Stephen Rosenman submits: Once again Apple (AAPL) gets hammered in the press. This time by Sandy Berger, FBR analyst, who figures that second quarter 2008 unit sales of iPods and iPhones will be down 60% and those of macBooks will be down 50% from last quarter's results. He arrives at these estimates by gauging Apple's suppliers.
Grâce au succès de l'iPod et de l'iPhone, les clients découvrent le monde d'Apple. Résultat, les ordinateurs Mac s'imposent sur les bureaux et à la maison. Alors que les premiers Apple Store vont s'ouvrir en Suisse, la firme de Cupertino sera bientôt plus riche que Microsoft.
Tiernan Ray, over at Tech Trade Daily, has an amusing post up explaining the rather circuitous route of a particular Apple rumor found on various Apple rumor sites. Basically, one Apple rumors site claimed a new research report was coming out detailing potential upgrades to various Apple products.
Eric Savitz (Barron's) submits: Is Apple (AAPL) planning to start a subscription-based music streaming service for iTunes users? In a Friday blog post, TheDeal. com wrote that rumors have cropped up about Apple doing exactly that sometime next month. The Deal pointed to a MacRumors.
The majority of Apple rumors ignored by the veterans at sites like Macrumors and Apple Insider are non-sourced, usually building up from the updrafts of the blog/analyst/network news circle jerk vortex. This new site, with almost no content right now, has a great idea: Drop the pretense of claiming to know what Apple is working on, forum mongers, and write them in their true form as desperate pleas for Crazy Apple Gear.
If today's Apple Event, like last time, left a little taste of letdown in the mouths of the fervent, the reason why is now clear: we knew every detail of every announcement before Jobs could even prime the cylinders of the Apple Event Reality Distortion Field generator, yet alone fire it up.
On a week when Microsoft landed a big deal to put Silverlight on Nokia phones, Apple’s CEO, Steve Jobs, tells Adobe that there won’t be Flash on the iPhone. This is a real bummer for Adobe and many users and developers, because most of the world’s casual games are written for Flash.
Carl Howe (Blackfriars Communications) submits: Apple's invitations to an event on March 6 to discuss the Apple Software Development Kit for the iPhone generated several Apple inquiries around here, and Apple COO Tim Cook's talk yesterday at the Goldman Sachs event added more fuel to the story.
Jon Rubinstein, the chairman of Palm, is once again striking former boss Steve Jobs where it hurts — Apple's talent. The latest hire: Lynn Fox, the head of Mac PR, joined Palm earlier this month. For a PR person, she's made the move surprisingly quietly; her name has yet to appear on any press releases.
I have all the top blogs and Twitter accounts coming into FriendFeed. Already the news is flowing (that’s a view of everything I’m “Liking” or “Commenting On” inside FriendFeed). But, seriously, there’s five places that’ll cover the important stuff well: Leo Laporte’s TWiT Live, Mac Rumors Live, Engadget, Venture Beat, and TechCrunch.
Internet users in China have been complaining this week that they cannot access Apple's iTunes Store. The start of the problems coincided with an announcement from an activist group which said that around 40 Olympic athletes had downloaded a pro-Tibet benefit album that was also carried on iTunes.
Alex Sokirynsky spent two months, working nights and weekends, to write an application called Podcaster for the Apple iPhone, allowing people to listen to and watch Podcasts on their phones. He was encouraged because he had written a few dozen Web-based applications that worked with the first-generation iPhone, all of which were promoted by Apple’s Web site.
Apple investors freaked out Monday, in part because two Wall Street analysts downgraded the stock. They are worried that margins will be compressed and sales of Macintosh computers and iPhones will be less than expected. Apple’s shares fell by $22. or 17. percent) to $105.
Now that Caterina Fake has left Yahoo and Stewart Butterfield has tendered his abstract resignation letter, what will the widely beloved Flickr cofounders do? And where will they go? Brendon Wilson, who worked in the Valley himself before returning to his native Canada, pointed us to an effort by a group of geeks to convince Fake and Butterfield to come back to Vancouver, British Columbia, where Flickr was launched.
Protect Music, Protect Your Couch Bush signs RIAA-backed intellectual-property law [CNet] Add one more item to the long To Do list that President Bush is leaving for his successor. Yesterday, the president signed the Prioritizing Resources and Organization for Intellectual Property Act that creates a White House office to look after intellectual property issues.
You might remember a little spat which occurred between Apple and the Apple rumor site Think Secret, way back in January 2005. Apple filed a lawsuit against the dePlume Organization LLC (the company behind Think Secret) in order to force Nick dePlume (aka Nick Ciarelli) to reveal his sources for stories he published about a "$499 headless iMac" (which was most likely the Mac Mini)