appleinsider.com— A report on AppleInsider about Leopard still being an unfinished product was taken down after an order by Apple Legal. "This article has been removed temporarily for edits at the request of Apple Inc."
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Because I think the apple hardware is better. besides, when you move outside the standard 14/15" form factor laptop, there's little difference in cost. In fact, when I priced my macbook it was cheaper than an equivalent dell (in UK). heck, i have 802.11n, sure as hell wouldn't have gotten that with the dell i looked at the time.
> Wow reminds me of all those times Microsoft got > articles criticizing Vista taken downApple has *never* forced a site to take down an article because it criticizes them. I defy you to cite a single example.What Apple has done is to go after sites that reveal information they have disseminated under NDA. For the record, I don't think Apple has any business or right in doing that but they are not going after people for simply criticizing them. They are making an effort (misguided as it is) to protect their trade secrets. You only need to glance at their own message forums on their own site to see that they tolerate plenty of criticism. Seriously, if you can't be bothered to familiarize yourself with the story, why waste your time and mine by commenting on it?
Vista/Longhorn saw what, 4 freakin' years or more of delays and missed release dates? And during that time, MS basically let their existing platform languish, doing almost nothing with it except security updates and service packs. And after all that wait, Vista turns out to be a severely underwhelming release with most of the highly touted features stripped or scaled back to such an extent that it's basically XP with eye-candy.Meanwhile, Apple has pushed their platform forward since Tiger's release, completely switching OS X and their entire computer line-up over to Intel and has announced a piddling 4 month delay in an OS that is shaping up to be a significant update over its predecessor.Yeah, the tables have *really* turned, huh?
Here we go again! Freedom of speech (let's not call it "freedom of the press" unless referring to a bonafide news organization, which AppleInsider is not) does not give people the right to steal company trade secrets, nor does it give anyone the right to publish proprietary information belonging to companies that have broken no laws and whose secrecy does absolutely no harm to anyone. Apple is the only party injured by big-mouthed sensation hounds; and if Apple has the legal right to silence such people and chooses to do so, it's OK with me.
Material under NDA is regarded as a trade secret. Knowingly publishing embargoed trade secrets is as much a no-no as the one that violated the NDA to begin with.
Closed AccountApr 13, 2007
As opposed to the 18+ months that Leopard will bew delayed AT LEAST now?
Closed AccountApr 13, 2007
Darn. How's Microsoft going to rip off Apple ideas before release now?
zetsurinApr 13, 2007
Because I think the apple hardware is better. besides, when you move outside the standard 14/15" form factor laptop, there's little difference in cost. In fact, when I priced my macbook it was cheaper than an equivalent dell (in UK). heck, i have 802.11n, sure as hell wouldn't have gotten that with the dell i looked at the time.
inkswampApr 14, 2007
> Wow reminds me of all those times Microsoft got > articles criticizing Vista taken downApple has *never* forced a site to take down an article because it criticizes them. I defy you to cite a single example.What Apple has done is to go after sites that reveal information they have disseminated under NDA. For the record, I don't think Apple has any business or right in doing that but they are not going after people for simply criticizing them. They are making an effort (misguided as it is) to protect their trade secrets. You only need to glance at their own message forums on their own site to see that they tolerate plenty of criticism. Seriously, if you can't be bothered to familiarize yourself with the story, why waste your time and mine by commenting on it?
inkswampApr 14, 2007
Vista/Longhorn saw what, 4 freakin' years or more of delays and missed release dates? And during that time, MS basically let their existing platform languish, doing almost nothing with it except security updates and service packs. And after all that wait, Vista turns out to be a severely underwhelming release with most of the highly touted features stripped or scaled back to such an extent that it's basically XP with eye-candy.Meanwhile, Apple has pushed their platform forward since Tiger's release, completely switching OS X and their entire computer line-up over to Intel and has announced a piddling 4 month delay in an OS that is shaping up to be a significant update over its predecessor.Yeah, the tables have *really* turned, huh?
macewanApr 14, 2007
Well, I'm a Linux fanboy and find this quite interesting - therefor I diggit.
alanskyApr 15, 2007
Here we go again! Freedom of speech (let's not call it "freedom of the press" unless referring to a bonafide news organization, which AppleInsider is not) does not give people the right to steal company trade secrets, nor does it give anyone the right to publish proprietary information belonging to companies that have broken no laws and whose secrecy does absolutely no harm to anyone. Apple is the only party injured by big-mouthed sensation hounds; and if Apple has the legal right to silence such people and chooses to do so, it's OK with me.
superrcatApr 15, 2007
Vista was 3 years late, not 4 months.
ahknightApr 17, 2007
Material under NDA is regarded as a trade secret. Knowingly publishing embargoed trade secrets is as much a no-no as the one that violated the NDA to begin with.