AppleInsider o przyznawaniu się WSJ i 9to5Mac do błędu →

Daniel Eran Dilger na łamach AppleInsider:

The inability of the Wall Street Journal to admit that its ostensibly „well sourced” reports are often based on deeply flawed analyst speculation and notoriously unreliable „channel checks” is earning the famed paper a reputation on par with rumor blogs that claim to know everything about what Apple is doing yet report false leads and fail to anticipate major new developments.

Just prior to WWDC this summer, 9to5 blogger Mark Gurman published a „rumor roundup” that incorrectly predicted new „Healthbook,” TextEdit and Preview apps for iOS; the „removal” of Game Center; the addition of a „Control Center for OS X” and an iPad „split screen UI” and a secondary iPad display feature.

Those predictions were not only wrong, but failed to foresee virtually all of the significant new features Apple unveiled for iOS 8 and OS X Yosemite, ranging from Apple’s entirely new Swift programming language and Metal API to OS X Yosemite’s new focus on Spotlight search; a new Widget store for Notification Center; new privacy and performance features in Safari; new Messages features; new Mail markup features; the new iCloud Drive; any hint of the new Handoff, Instant Hotspot, SMS/Phone integration between iOS and OS X that Apple collectively referred to as „Continuity”; the new iCloud Photo Library and revamped Photo apps for iOS and Mac; new Keyboard features and third party flexibility; new Family Sharing; and new enterprise features, including connectivity with third party cloud storage services.

Rather than admitting he was wrong, Gurman later insisted on twitter, „I am convinced Apple completely redesigned Healthbook and dropped the ‚book’ because of the leak,” virtually the same response Wakabayashi gave after realizing that iPhones weren’t getting the sapphire screens his sources had predicted.

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