*Confirmed* RAILHead Gets Info From Rumor Sites
Wow. My first evar confirmed thread. I'm like - giddy with excitement! Or not....
I love how this guy updates his site a couple times a week with "hints" about upcoming OS updates and 3rd party product releases, as if he himself is a beta tester or has inside connections. Lately he's been pretty far off the mark. This most recent round of updates is no exception.
For the last week or so he went on and on about how the "big IE update" was "holding Apple up" from releasing 10.1.5 - despite the fact that there were visible signs to the contrary from Kevin Browne himself. The more I read this guy's "insider tips" the more it looks like he has no inside information at all. He hasn't provided any real information about OS X, Photoshop or any of the other goodies we've gotten this year, that wasn't released first somewhere else.
...And now he wants people to make donations because of his overcooked server logs. Poor Maury. Like I'm gonna pay him to give me re-fried rumors. Sorry. Not in this lifetime.
I love how this guy updates his site a couple times a week with "hints" about upcoming OS updates and 3rd party product releases, as if he himself is a beta tester or has inside connections. Lately he's been pretty far off the mark. This most recent round of updates is no exception.
For the last week or so he went on and on about how the "big IE update" was "holding Apple up" from releasing 10.1.5 - despite the fact that there were visible signs to the contrary from Kevin Browne himself. The more I read this guy's "insider tips" the more it looks like he has no inside information at all. He hasn't provided any real information about OS X, Photoshop or any of the other goodies we've gotten this year, that wasn't released first somewhere else.
...And now he wants people to make donations because of his overcooked server logs. Poor Maury. Like I'm gonna pay him to give me re-fried rumors. Sorry. Not in this lifetime.
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Don't get me wrong, I think the site in general is OK and anytime you produce cool shareware it's a good thing for the platform. But his "insider updates" are totally disingenuous IMO. He doesn't have anymore clue about what's coming next than we do, based on my observations.
He doesn't tout the site as an inside info source, just:
"NEWS - From Macintosh rumours to the best..."
So he is reporting rumours, whether he gets them off the net or from contacts what's the problem?
I believe his excessive bandwidth costs were mostly down to the Jaguar screenies and movies he put up; he was doing us a service and I don't think his polite request for donations is out of order at all.
Now if he were saying "Give me money and I'll give you the insider-scoop", and then spouted copied and pasted, rumour site speculation at us it would be a different story. Then I'd see your point.
But he isn't, and I don't.
Don't like him, don't go to his site.
<strong>If I recall, he was the first to say 10.1.5 was ready to roll and might be released this weekend. He was off 2 days. He's been right before and first with a lot of info on beta builds of X.
Don't like him, don't go to his site.</strong><hr></blockquote>
Well...he could add a little Pr0n to his site
And like I said, compared to every other mac rumor site (this isn't even a rumor site), he has a relatively high "success" rate.
Look I don't have a problem with mentioning rumors in passing, or with his site in general, but the way his columns read it's like he's got the information and is graciously sharing it with us. In the immortal words of Tyler Durden "I don't think so..." Adobe and Apple aren't giving this guy builds of their new stuff - he makes themes and icons for cryin out loud.
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