The Financial Times screams down the iPad hallway with news that “Apple could begin selling U.S. television shows for $1.” Or, you know, it could not.
The company will maybe do a limited trial in April for the release of the iPad, FT reports. Because how can you not trust “people familiar with the discussions?”
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Would you trust a blog called Boy Genius Report? I would. Why? Because it has “genius” in the name. Just like those guys at the Apple Store who can never figure out how to fix my iPods, so they just give me new ones or tell me to fuck off.
BGR says it “hit up a source close to HTC” to get these tidbits about the Desire (basically, the Nexus One) coming to AT&T and the Hero 2 coming to Sprint. The HTC Desire is supposed to drop between May and June, and the genius has no intel on the Sprint phone. Continue reading
TechCrunch fired one of its employees, 17-year-old Daniel Brusilovsky, earlier this month for accepting a MacBook Air from a company in exchange for a blog post. (We incorrectly referred to him, as too did TechCrunch founder Michael Arrington in his post, as an intern. Brusilovsky says he wasn’t.)
We called for TechCrunch to come clean on which company paid for press. Now, Loren Feldman of 1938 Media joins us in the hunt. His method is rather clever. Continue reading
The New York Times is running a story about how most new books on Apple’s iPad may not average between $12.99 to $14.99 — that’s the price ceiling. This entire speculation about the Most Secretive Computer Company Ever is pegged to “at least three people with knowledge of the discussions.”
This phrase always kinda baffled us: “at least three people.” Aren’t they your sources, Motoko Rich? Like, don’t you know how many people told you that? Were you drunk? Unable to count to four?
The Gray Lady is on watch. We better see some cheap e-books next month, Mr. Rich.
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We haven’t posted in a week. I guess that means the blogosphere is done with stupid rumors, anonymous sources and inane claims. Job well done, guys! Let’s all go home.
Yeah, ok.
Time to sift through the bullshit we missed last week.
Target numero uno: “Google Paying Apple More Than $100 Million Annually For iPhone Search Deal.” Continue reading
Less than 24 hours after Michael Arrington‘s TechCrunch had to come clean on laptop bribery to protect his blog’s journalistic integrity, the founder drops a sourceless prediction about the world’s largest social network.
Facebook is planning to launch a “fully featured webmail product” to replace that crappy inbox feature we only use out of pure necessity, Arrington writes. He attributes that eye-catching headline to “a source with knowledge of the product.” Continue reading
Even the New York Times resorts to anonymous sources every once in a while. Hey, everybody does it. Woodword and Bernstein had them. (Granted, they were unraveling a national government conspiracy, not guessing about the next plastic toy from Apple.)
But not even the Times gets a pass from Credibull. Citing our favorite “a person briefed on the deal” source, the double byline tagteam of Nick Bilton and Brad Stone say Amazon is buying — er, “said to buy” — a “touch start-up” (sexual puns aside). Continue reading
A touchscreen BlackBerry that doesn’t suck? Maybe.
TheStreet.com’s Scott Moritz reports that Research In Motion is developing a Web-friendly operating system to accommodate a new phone that will launch in the spring, citing an anonymous analyst (second-hand source). Continue reading
What is it with this iPad thing? Apple gears up for an announcement, and the entire tech news industry loses its head.
Business Insider reports that Apple is working on a version of the iPad for Verizon Wireless. The blog’s source? Fox News’ Clayton Morris, who flopped on some rumors leading up to the recent Apple announcement and has yet to publish his own story about this rumor.
Morris’ source? “A Verizon source.” Continue reading
Less than a week after Apple announced the iPad and nearly two months before anyone not named Steve Jobs or Stephen Colbert can own one, TechCrunch’s MG Siegler breaks out a rumor (clearly tagged as such in the headline) that Apple is “pretty far along on work on a second tablet device,” he wrote. This new TamPod (thanks, Colbert) will supposedly run an operating system closer to Mac OS X than the iPhone.
