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Oh! And I had as much fun as anyone else with these predictions and breaking news that TS released from time to time. It is just that they came too accurate, up to a point in which Macworlds stopped being "let's see if any of the rumors become true!!!" and for a moment were more like:
"Alright, here's Steve-o. Let's take out our rumor list... New iLife: check. Headless-under-$500-Mac: check. Under-$100-iPod: check. Great to be with you, bye".
At some point Keynotes lost part of their interest because even the "one-more-thing" had been leaked, pictures, pricing and specs included, days before the event. I prefer something like MWSF07 in which nobody had a clue about what was to come, or the iMac G5 launch of which nobody had seen anything and was a true surprise!! Or the first nano!
This is not much different than TV shows spoilers, or movie ending leaks or comic book spoilers or anything else that's become much more commonplace since the internet took off.
I remember it being weeks after a MacWorld and still not being sure of what was released! You'd have to wait for MacWeek or MacWorld to publish their next issue and see if the speculation you'd heard about ended up being right.
Same with TV shows - you used to actually have to watch a show to know what was going on. Now, you can have pretty much the entire season summed up for you before the first episode airs. Anyone remember the "Who show Mr. Burns?" Simpsons (or heck, "The Who Shot JR?" Dallas it parodied?). How long do you think those secrets would have lasted in 2007? How much less impact would it have had?