I just wanted to give you a super colossal amout of support. All of you @ Engadegt are doing a fantasict job. Keep up the good stuff... We Love you guys.......
You rushed to publish without verifying any facts and you played right into the perpetrator’s plans. Your Apple insider did not have any cooperating info other than passing along a faked message. You then blame Apple's PR staff for not answering their phones before their offices were open. Then again for taking a whole two hours to respond. Considering it would take a while for more staff to begin their day, and they would, being responsible employees, start verifying the authenticity of this memo before sending out a retraction and they would know that this was leaked to Engadget? Come on. The responsibility is yours to verify the info. It was easy since it referred to an already published press release. There was no release to be found on their site and the slow response to your inquiry, clearly indicated that they were unprepared to field the many incoming calls, which they would have been if this was real.
Common sense should have kicked in, but you left that at home that is if you ever had it.
A trip to Engadget is clearly a waste of key strokes
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Ryan Block @ May 17th 2007 7:29PM
Thanks, we love you guys too. ;)
Ollie @ May 18th 2007 1:21AM
Hello Ryan,
I just wanted to give you a super colossal amout of support. All of you @ Engadegt are doing a fantasict job.
Keep up the good stuff... We Love you guys.......
Oliver
Sandman619 @ May 18th 2007 6:53AM
You rushed to publish without verifying any facts and you played right into the perpetrator’s plans. Your Apple insider did not have any cooperating info other than passing along a faked message. You then blame Apple's PR staff for not answering their phones before their offices were open. Then again for taking a whole two hours to respond. Considering it would take a while for more staff to begin their day, and they would, being responsible employees, start verifying the authenticity of this memo before sending out a retraction and they would know that this was leaked to Engadget? Come on. The responsibility is yours to verify the info. It was easy since it referred to an already published press release. There was no release to be found on their site and the slow response to your inquiry, clearly indicated that they were unprepared to field the many incoming calls, which they would have been if this was real.
Common sense should have kicked in, but you left that at home that is if you ever had it.
A trip to Engadget is clearly a waste of key strokes
Cheers!