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The Lawyer-Proof Vest? (7/18/00)
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Hey, here's a quickie for you to chew on if you need a little brain-teaser to while away the hours before the keynote: has AppleInsider discovered the Magical Fountain of Lawyer-Imperviousness? We ask only because it seems that ever since it got slapped with a lawsuit by Adobe alleging trade secret infringement in a special insider report on upcoming versions of Photoshop and ImageReady, the site's been on a virtual rumormongering rampage, lawyers be damned. Sure, it pulled the offending Adobe articles, but it turned right around and posted prerelease info on Microsoft's upcoming Mac version of Office. Okay, yeah, it pulled that, too (temporarily)-- but since then, the site's posted a blinding amount of insider Apple info, and has seemingly ignored the demands of Apple Legal that the material be removed.
Really, think about it; AppleInsider has since posted info about upcoming iMacs, details on the new mouse, reports on a new wider G4 enclosure (including sketches and photos), and-- most noteworthy of all-- enough data on the mysterious MacCube to choke an ox. Remember, when Mac OS Rumors dared to mention the Cube, Apple's lawyers ordered that it remove the info posthaste. Ditto MacInTouch, which isn't even a rumors site. Yet somehow AppleInsider just manages to keep blithely adding to its treasure trove of Cube data, despite having acknowledged that it's been receiving some unwelcome attention from the Cupertino mouthpieces.
So what are we seeing, here-- the actions of a site who's already facing a potentially disastrous Adobe suit and therefore feels it has nothing to lose? Is this AppleInsider's way of going out in a blaze of glory? Or is it simply bolder now, having witnessed the horror of the lawsuit first-hand and come away (so far) intact? Whatever it is, we're grateful for it-- and for today's update, which has new data on the Cube, the new iMacs, the new mouse, a smaller Cinema Display, new iBooks, and new Power Mac G4s. Hallelujah, it's raining rumors!
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 | | The above scene was taken from the 7/18/00 episode: July 18, 2000: Everybody's heard about this mysterious MacCube, but what exactly is it? Meanwhile, ATI spills the beans about what Steve's going to announce tomorrow, and AppleInsider must have some magic anti-lawyer salve or something, because the inside info just keeps on coming...
Other scenes from that episode: 2422: All Things To All People (7/18/00) Okay, so just what is this MacCube thing, anyway? Everyone with a Mac and a pulse is yammering on about Apple's rumored new device, but reports about what's actually inside the box-- and who it's for-- vary more wildly than the mercurial Uncle Steve's mood swings... 2423: Loose Lips Sink Chips (7/18/00) Apple-- and especially Steve-- obviously likes surprises, right? There's that "a surprise every ninety days" directive, there's Steve's legendary "oh, and one more thing..." move at his keynote addresses, there's the fact that Apple product development is so deeply shrouded in mystery that many Apple engineers enter the testing labs and are strangely never heard from again...
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