Do independant resellers have any idea when the refresh is coming? Are they in the same boat as us? Since they know it's due anytime soon-ish are they just trying to lower stock levels so they don't end up with a lot of old ones?
It's getting dull around here. Someone photoshop a nice mockup so we can all have a w**k over it or something...
I would think that any Apple authorised reseller will have to sign a contract with Apple which probably includes a Non disclosure agreement which probably means that even if they do have prior knowledge of new products if they ever leaked any info then Apple would stop supplying them with stock.
Apple are quite aggresive in these things. The BBC have a Technology tv programme called Click, which did a program about Apple, looking at the PR and marketing and how Apple choreograph their products launches etc. They also spoke to ex Apple employees and authors who had written books about Apple. It was quite intersting but nothing controversial, at the end of the show the presenter said that they had approached apple for an interview, Apple declined to take part but told them that if they broadcast the program it could have a "negative effect" on the BBCs relationship with Apple. Not sure what the "negative effect" was but the BBC broadcast it anyway.
