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Unlike Apple and its team of "insiders" and their "leaks", which coincidentally seems to always be people who get free goods from Apple's marketing department.
by josteink 13y ago
Unlike Apple and its team of "insiders" and their "leaks", which coincidentally seems to always be people who get free goods from Apple's marketing department.
This is a complete sham!
- CitationNeeded 13y agoDo you have an example of that happening where the "free goods" were not a temporary review unit which was later returned?
- valarauca1 13y agoA former senior marketing official at apple talks about it. http://www.macobserver.com/tmo/article/how_apple_does_controlled_leaks http://www.macobserver.com/tmo/article/how_apple_does_contro...
- ciniglio 13y agoThis doesn't mention anything about giving hardware to anyone. All this talks about is how Apple plans leaks of information...
- 300bps 13y agoOh great, a reddit-style novelty account created 42 minutes ago.
- arrrg 13y agoDo you have any evidence for that? Due to Apple’s enormous success and many fanatical fans I don’t think it’s necessary for Apple to do things like that.
- josteink 13y agoMan, I agree with fanatical, and you'd think that would be enough. But just look at Gruber. While I still bothered to click the occasional Gruber link-bait I seem to recall he on several occasions mentioned equipment which he "had gotten from Apple". I'm assuming that means he didn't pay. I'm sure I say stuff like that loads of places. Especially on the hipster SF blogs which for a period made this website almost unreadable.
- arrrg 13y agoWhat, review devices are a problem now? That’s the most normal thing in the world. Reviewers get stuff to review for free. From everyone.
- interstitial 13y agoAnd have you ever read Consumer Report's take on that?
- neya 13y agoHere you go: http://www.macobserver.com/tmo/article/how_apple_does_controlled_leaks http://www.macobserver.com/tmo/article/how_apple_does_contro... >...I don’t think it’s necessary for Apple to do things like that. The problem with people (like you) is that they see things as 'black' or 'white' or 'good' or 'bad'. Any signs of the possibility of shades of grey are dismissed without second thought. Most if not all companies pay the media and do shady stuff under the radar while they can.
- arrrg 13y agoSo … there is no evidence, right?
- lowglow 13y agoI've been friends with journalist on the Apple beat for major publications. Apple is notoriously picky about who it gives early product announcements too, and they never _ever_ purposefully "leak" anything. Apple does play favorites. If you are in Apple's good graces and play by their rules, their team will give you early access to you have more time to write in-depth reviews about their devices (But don't EVER think about prematurely releasing the story). If you get on their bad side, you're pretty much stuck and have to wait like normal people for launched product releases.