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You make fair points, though I think the central one is flawed: No permanent damage to any involved; perhaps a net win for Gizmodo and Apple. Exposing a trade
by _pius 16y ago
You make fair points, though I think the central one is flawed:
No permanent damage to any involved; perhaps a net win for Gizmodo and Apple.
Exposing a trade secret the way Gizmodo did probably did hard-to-calculate damage to iPhone sales for the past several months. After all, there is a reason they stovepipe these announcements. I think it'd be hard to argue that this is a net win for Apple.
- gojomo 16y agoBut: the 'secrets' about this model were pretty much as expected. Improved iPhone models are released like clockwork each summer. And the meme "your Apple product will be replaced by a better one in 6 months" is so strong it's a recurring joke on talk shows and late-night TV. So I think your 'hard-to-quantify' on buyers is in fact 'negligible' -- or failing that, 'outweighed by knocking news of all competitors off the front-pages for a couple weeks'.