It is surprising that a online portal like Wired knew with so much certainty and detail what Steve jobs was going to release next day. Wired says "An Apple insider told Wired today that the company's new ultraportable, expected to be seen in public for the first time tomorrow, has an extremely thin profile and is shaped like a teardrop when closed — thicker at the top behind the screen, tapering at the bottom behind the keyboard." Not only this, they had also released the name of the device and it was written on the website "Steve Jobs is widely expected to reveal a new MacBook at Macworld on Tuesday morning, and with the rumoured name being "MacBook Air."" We have no idea how they got details so accurately but it is something that any company working on high tech products should deal with. Who knows if source code is also shipped outside the company? There is no harm to the customers in short term but if companies will not earn out of their innovations, they will stop innovating and in long term customers will not see anything new. One can argue about the prices charged by the companies for the propriety products but just cheating is not going to do any good. I have put two snapshots of the wired website because I feel they will remove this content once Apple will push them to reveal the name of the insider.
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