jeb1138
Carioca
MacWhispers (http://www.macwhispers.com), which at first glance seems to be a newcomer to the rumor arena (its 'archives' only go back to November of last year with 2 articles in November and 5 in December) claims in a recent "Exposed" article (http://www.envestco2.com/macwhispers/0000011.html) to be the Mac Daddy p) of Apple rumors. A quote:
So is this just a publicity stunt by MacWhispers (death to them if it is!) or is this the straight story? Fryke? Anybody got any inside information on the subject?
They also claim that rumors sites that say they have insider information from sources inside Apple are lying.We have previously given our information to existing, well-known rumor sites, and they have published our conclusions... but often "massaged" them in a way that lessened their accuracy. You have certainly read many stories on these other sites that were, in reality, based upon our information. We recently decided to publish our information on our own site...
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We wouldn't doubt we have much better data to work from (as our data comes from paying customers with these many companies) than any of the other folks in the pure Mac rumor site business.
Is this the truth? I guess "never say never" doesn't apply to macwhispers...? For example, fryke's site (http://mac.fryke.com) recently started an article saying:This is the holy grail of the rumor business: having someone send an email or give a telephone call and just hand over perfectly credible inside information about Apple workings. The reality is that this simply does not happen. Ever. And, while some well-known rumor sites gently (or blatantly) make claims of having "insider" sources at Apple, again, that just doesn't happen.
I always took something like this to mean sources (close to the team) inside Apple. I guess I was reading it wrong and "close to" means manufacturing suppliers &etc...?Sources close to the PowerBook development team at Apple..."
So is this just a publicity stunt by MacWhispers (death to them if it is!) or is this the straight story? Fryke? Anybody got any inside information on the subject?