tjwett said:
Apple monitors these and many other forums regularly. that's why anytime we get an actual piece of leaked info Arn is quickly dealt a Cease and Desist from Apple legal. anyone remember the Mirror Door PowerMac photo?
Sure do! That whole ordeal was pretty funny, though - I kept imagining some poor Web tech at Apple who was immediately and summarily fired. Then again, at the time, there was so much hype that perhaps it wasn't as much a "mistake" as it was a "teaser".
I think it is in Apple's interest to monitor sites like MacRumors - a lot of us are more verbose and detailed in our cheers, jeers, speculations and other rants and raves then we would ever be if Steve Jobs phoned us personally. I mean, come on, you know? If Steve called me and was like, "Hey girl, what do you think of my company and our products?" I'd be like, "Great! Keep it up!"
Besides, Apple is too small to not bend an ear to we fanatics who take time out of our days to post to these kind of sites. I don't really think that even in the most structured forums online that deal with M$ products, M$ actually gives a damn about what people say (otherwise, Windows would have been open-sourced immediately after NT was released). I like to think that the folks at Apple have some sort of communications liasion whose responsibility it is to cull these sites and bring info to Steve, R&D or whomever, both because Apple *cares* and because as much as I would like it to have more, the company still only retains a (debatible) 5% market share.
