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Apple Hot News seemingly the last to learn of Time Capsule shipments
Earlier today Scott posted that the long-awaited Time Capsules are indeed now starting to ship. However someone ought to go let the folks at Apple's Hot News team know, as this entry in the Apple Hot News feed is somewhat perplexing."Time Capsule, the wireless hard drive you can use to back up multiple Mac computers using Time Machine in Mac OS X Leopard, has begun shipping. "Notifications of the shipments began reaching customers that pre-ordered the device early this morning," according to Jim Dalrymple (macworld.com)."
I'm sure that Apple wants to vaunt the arrival of the delayed Time Capsule (I'm very tempted myself, now that they're arriving). However here at TUAW (and we're not alone) we fail to see how leaving this announcement 'according to [much respected Macworld writer] Jim Dalrymple' is in any way beneficial to Apple: if Time Capsule is shipping, why isn't Apple willing to yell it from the rooftop themselves?
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Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)
Alan said 5:37PM on 2-28-2008
Hahah this is hilarious, Apple gets news about shipping it's own products from an outside source, what has news come to these days?
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Ed Pummelon said 5:38PM on 2-28-2008
I loved this, there's a certain irony in reading a TUAW post which is about other sites posting news late! Even if it is Apple on themselves.
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quandmeme said 7:14PM on 2-28-2008
And I commend all of you for resisting the easy joke on time machines, time capsules, delays, and lost bits of news.
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Mo said 4:37AM on 2-29-2008
“Apple Hot News” is almost always quotes from third parties talking about Apple products, rather than product announcements, according to my feed archives.
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motech said 9:13AM on 2-29-2008
emmmm
this is funnier then you think.
just from reading the title really.
do you know how often tuaw is 2 days late on posting a story?
its quite annoying actually to read something on the web and a day or 2 later come to tuaw and see it as a new story.
hmm
makes you think..
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