According to a "settlement page" on their site, the old faithful Mac rumor site ThinkSecret has shut down.
Apple and Think Secret have settled their lawsuit, reaching an agreement that results in a positive solution for both sides. As part of the confidential settlement, no sources were revealed and Think Secret will no longer be published.This is a major disappointment to me. The two rumor sites I checked daily and always trusted were ThinkSecret.Com and AppleInsider.Com. Now, there is only one, and all because Apple is overly obsessed with secrecy over products which are widely known about anyway.
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I think this is a really bad thing for Apple, who will now lose the hype built up by such websites as Think Secret, for there new and upcoming products. Everybody what primed for the release of the iPod and iPhone as a result of the work of Think Secret and Apple Insider. So it's really Apple's loss.
It's also too bad because speculation on upcoming products is MacAddics favorite passtime come MacWold and WWDC time.
I tend to agree, this is biting the hand that feeds you. On the other hand, I understand that Rumor Sites are a double-edged sword, and Apple's stock has tumbled based on bad rumors more often than it has climbed based on accurate ones.
And, I must admit, these days every news magazine has turned into an Apple rumors site, de facto.
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