Macworld is reporting a strange legal move by Apple:
Apple is suing anonymous individuals who it accuses of leaking details to the Web of its unreleased products.
The company filed suit in the Santa Clara County California Superior Court on December 13. Apple describes itself as a company driven by innovation. "The protection of our trade secrets is vital to our success".
It's taken from a Reuters report, which says Apple is acting because "an unidentified individual, acting alone or in concert with others, has recently misappropriated and disseminated through Web sites confidential information about an unreleased Apple product."
I know Apple are a secretive bunch (Apple, bunch - geddit?), but this is a step too far.
Meanwhile there's another analysis of whether iPod could fully revive Apple in the Knight Ridder stable of papers. Despite running through the arguments fairly competently, it starts out questionably:
With its hip new ads and even hipper marketing deal with rock band U2, the iPod has revived Apple Computer's image as a cutting-edge company.
Who on earth would call U2 hip (apart from late 30s middle of the road rock fans... oh) - and surely Apple has retained its image as a cutting-edge company throughout most of its history... certainly since iMac. The iPod's different, though, because it brings Apple technology out of the computing arena and into the far wider electronics market.
