In other news, Apple has once again showed that they don’t care much for their fans by killing wildly popular blog ThinkSecret.  I don’t know if this is part of some ridiculous marketing angle, but suing and forcing a fansite to shut down usually isn’t in the best interest of any company.  Portfolio has some more notes on forcing fans to shutdown sites.

Marshall Kirkpatrick hits the nail on the head about disclosing that anonymous tipster, ”

ThinkSecret’s main news sources were anonymous tipsters who either called or emailed a tip line and gave the latest dirt on Apple, sometimes including pictures and news that has yet to be released.  Most people call this buzz, and it’s a good thing.

AppleGazette has a newsy piece (opinionless) about the ThinkSecret.com shutdown.   Ron Schoene also speculates about ThinkSecret getting paid off to settle the lawsuit out of court.  I think that is truly what happened.  Why else would Nick say he was happy about the way things turned out?

However, Apple doesn’t want people talking about their products, at least not until they tell you that you can.

Kinda reminds me of Microsoft back in 1999 when they ruled the world.  Look at them now.

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