Yes. Unless they had some specific agreement with Apple to do a teardown and have time for research about the specific components pre-release, then they were un

Yes. Unless they had some specific agreement with Apple to do a teardown and have time for research about the specific components pre-release, then they were under the same exact NDA that everyone that signed up to their developer unit pre-release lottery was under. They even stated that they knew they had signed an NDA, but felt that publishing their teardown information was "more important" than the NDA.