Which Rumor Site Has Been The Best?

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in General Discussion edited January 2014
In the past year rumor sites have been mostly hit and miss. Ever since the successful lawsuits Apple had against certain individuals the rumor sites have been more wrong then right. Which ones continue to be better then the others?



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  • Reply 1 of 16
    ghost_user_nameghost_user_name Posts: 22,667member
    Rumors sites, much like most journalistic sites, tend to pass the torch in regards to who is the biggest hit. MOSR used to be the biggie way back when. These days, ThinkSecret has been the most spot on. Personally, I prefer macrumors.com, as they provide constant coverage of all the rumors, along with their own opinions.



    Wired: ThinkSecret

    Tired: MOSR
  • Reply 2 of 16
    drewpropsdrewprops Posts: 2,321member
    CORRECTION:



    AppleInsider was the "biggie" back in the day (I've been a member here since January 1999). One Example: AI broke the story of the Yosemite-style case design the night before Steve Jobs trotted it out onstage.



    MOSR has had a high bullshit ratio for years...Ryan Meader's (site's owner/operator) was the constant butt of many people's jokes in regard to the rumors circulating there. Of all the Mac rumor sites MOSR is the tawdry night time soap opera, full of fake boobs and capped teeth.



    Think Secret has consistently been pumping out dead-on data for the last year or more, placing it well ahead of any of the Mac rumor sites in accuracy and breadth of coverage as it hits both hardware and software alike. None of the other old Mac rumor sites had such consistently accurate information.



    And agreed that all of the sites have had their "day of glory"...so Think Secret may one day pass out of the accurate rumor business. Every so often one of the lesser sites will break a story that proves to be true...like the mirror-door G4 towers.
  • Reply 3 of 16
    ghost_user_nameghost_user_name Posts: 22,667member
    Depends on when 'back in the day' was



    RFI carried the torch before MOSR. Then MOSR hit, and it was favored for a little bit. Then I remember AI, as you said, take the torch. These days it is ThinkSecret...



    I think the real reason MOSR was "in" way back when (well before 1999) was that they really had no competition when they first published. They were hip for a year or so, but AI came into the picture in a nasty way after that. After MOSR's 10.7 minutes of fame, Meader just crashed and burned so quickly...



    If it wasn't for SpyMac's nasty iWalk fiasco, they may have been considered to be a rumors site to watch. Right now, they're little more than a community of teenage mac fanboi's with a seriously hideous forum Really, you guys don't know how well you get it here at AI until you hit their forum...
  • Reply 4 of 16
    the cool gutthe cool gut Posts: 1,714member
    [quote]Originally posted by drewprops:

    <strong>CORRECTION:





    Think Secret has consistently been pumping out dead-on data for the last year or more, placing it well ahead of any of the Mac rumor sites in accuracy and breadth of coverage as it hits both hardware and software alike. None of the other old Mac rumor sites had such consistently accurate information.

    </strong><hr></blockquote>



    They have consistently been missing the mark ever since the *guaranteed that the powerbooks would not get superdrive late last year. Ever since then, they have not been able to predict anything unless it was either common knowledge, or announced the next day.
  • Reply 5 of 16
    stunnedstunned Posts: 1,096member
    Thinksecret is the best rumour site for me, though its news and rumours are updated unfrequently.
  • Reply 6 of 16
    drewpropsdrewprops Posts: 2,321member
    Think Secret is CHURNING out real dish on a REALLY frequent basis compared to all the other sites track records...they've really impressed me on their hit to miss ratio.



    There was never a Mac rumor site that was updated on a regular schedule.
  • Reply 7 of 16
    ghost_user_nameghost_user_name Posts: 22,667member
    [quote]Originally posted by the cool gut:

    <strong>



    They have consistently been missing the mark ever since the *guaranteed that the powerbooks would not get superdrive late last year. Ever since then, they have not been able to predict anything unless it was either common knowledge, or announced the next day.</strong><hr></blockquote>



    Speaking of rumor sites publishing reports of products within a day's release... I seem to recall the Cube hitting AI's site within like 12 hours of the announcement.
  • Reply 8 of 16
    bodhibodhi Posts: 1,424member
    Yeah but Worker Bee had such a HUGE mouth that all the rumor sites were hitting the Cube pretty much right on (except MOSR who had the dimensions all wrong). But your right...AI had scans of the marketing materials about a day before the keynote.
  • Reply 9 of 16
    ghost_user_nameghost_user_name Posts: 22,667member
    A few days before that MWNY I was hanging with a friend of mine who worked at Apple. He was in charge of the third party hardware testing lab. I asked him if the rumors were true when we were leaving a bar, and he said, "What rumors? A New machine?". I said, "Yeah, word has it there is going to be a cube". He tossed me the keys and said, "You know too much. Stop asking me questions."



    I didn't believe him. Turns out he had the Cube in his lab for many months prior to the release to test it. He just never saw the case, all he ever got was the guts.
  • Reply 10 of 16
    formerlurkerformerlurker Posts: 2,686member
    [quote]Originally posted by M3D Jack:

    <strong>A few days before that MWNY I was hanging with a friend of mine who worked at Apple. He was in charge of the third party hardware testing lab. I asked him if the rumors were true when we were leaving a bar

    </strong><hr></blockquote>



    You got him drunk and he spilled the beans !!



    JYD Flashback..... <img src="graemlins/cancer.gif" border="0" alt="[cancer]" />
  • Reply 11 of 16
    ibrowseibrowse Posts: 1,749member
    [quote]Originally posted by stunned:

    <strong>Thinksecret is the best rumour site for me, though its news and rumours are updated unfrequently.</strong><hr></blockquote>



    <a href="http://www.appleinsider.com/"; target="_blank">www.appleinsider.com/</a>



    How's that for infrequent...
  • Reply 12 of 16
    stunnedstunned Posts: 1,096member
    [quote]Originally posted by iBrowse:

    <strong>



    <a href="http://www.appleinsider.com/"; target="_blank">www.appleinsider.com/</a>



    How's that for infrequent...</strong><hr></blockquote>



    <img src="graemlins/lol.gif" border="0" alt="[Laughing]" />
  • Reply 13 of 16
    ghost_user_nameghost_user_name Posts: 22,667member
    [quote]Originally posted by FormerLurker:

    <strong>



    You got him drunk and he spilled the beans !!



    JYD Flashback..... <img src="graemlins/cancer.gif" border="0" alt="[cancer]" /> </strong><hr></blockquote>



    heh, he wasn't that drunk. He had a beer or so, then his ex-gf, who also worked at Apple showed up. They went and "talked", so I sat and talked with this other guy who worked at Apple. This was at some irish pub near Palo Alto. Fun time, I got to be the designated driver



    I really didn't believe him, he liked to mess with me since I was actively publishing mac3d.com at that point. God do I remember JYD though. He talked as much smack as TW
  • Reply 14 of 16
    formerlurkerformerlurker Posts: 2,686member
    [quote]Originally posted by M3D Jack:

    <strong> God do I remember JYD though. He talked as much smack as TW </strong><hr></blockquote>



    <img src="graemlins/lol.gif" border="0" alt="[Laughing]" />
  • Reply 15 of 16
    ibrowseibrowse Posts: 1,749member
    [quote]Originally posted by M3D Jack:

    <strong>God do I remember JYD though. He talked as much smack as TW </strong><hr></blockquote>



    You know, there was always some kind of subconscious connection to the two. So exactly how long as the tale of 'getting a friend from Apple drunk and getting pictures of the next great thing' been around? The first time I saw it here it was a joke anyway. But I've heard references to it a lot.
  • Reply 16 of 16
    ghost_user_nameghost_user_name Posts: 22,667member
    He'd never directly tell me anything about unreleased hardware. At Macworld he had to avoid me like the plague. If anyone saw him talking to me at a show, about anything, he could get canned. Simply because I was a journalist at the time. Reminds me of someone's signature once, "Want to get someone at Apple fired? Call my number from their phone!"



    I'd still like to know how AI got the pictures...
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