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2 options: 1) Legally incompetent CEO of a major international corporation 2) Another controlled leak from Apple. Which do you think is more likely?
by swombat 17y ago
2 options:
1) Legally incompetent CEO of a major international corporation
2) Another controlled leak from Apple.
Which do you think is more likely?
- seldo 17y agoIn all seriousness, option (1). There's no upside to leaking this 24 hours in advance of actually announcing it when hype is already at fever pitch. And if you need examples of hilariously incompetent CEOs I refer you to the automotive and banking industries.
- joezydeco 17y agoSure there's an upside. Now that the market knows media companies are involved, they all will spike tomorrow morning when the market opens. You also prime the hype pump one more time. Remember that the financial types don't read tuaw, gizmodo, and engadget all day long looking for Apple rumors. I consider it the noisemaker they shoot off before the real firework show starts.
- byrneseyeview 17y agoAs opposed to spiking a day later?
- mrtron 17y agoNo upside? That is a pretty outrageous claim. The upside is more press. The 'news' agencies/tabloids hate repeating material and need fresh information to talk about tonite before the big launch. You have to throw some meat out to the lions, even if you are intentionally leaving them hungry.
- mixmax 17y agoWhile I agree on the automative industry I don't think the CEO's of the banking industry are incompetent. Unfortunately, I wish their actions could be excused by incompetence.
- jasonlbaptiste 17y agothese are the guys that run the textbook market. ill go with option 1.
- ynniv 17y agoI have to disagree: have you seen the money students drop on textbooks lately? The whole market has consolidated and now makes books worthless after only a year or two (hence small secondary market) by releasing new revisions with different exercises in them. Maybe publishing at large doesn't know their business, but the textbook companies are minting money.
- CamperBob 17y agoThe textbook publishers had better gather their rosebuds while they may, because that scam isn't going to work forever.
- ynniv 17y agoHah - kids don't buy textbooks because they want to. It has nothing to do with paper pulp, and the universities are hurting for cash lately.
- epochwolf 17y agoYeah, $0 for my latest comp sci class. Someone found a pirated pdf of the book and offered to hand it out to the class. The professor made no objection.
- alanthonyc 17y agoApplying Occam's razor here would support your conclusion.
- gjm11 17y agoDo you mean Hanlon's?