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Hot Tub fund.[Joel Spolsky]
Do you really think
Walt Mossberg of the Wall Street Journal
goes to some secret underground Apple Store to buy his hot new iPod to
review a month before it's even announced? Do you think hardware review
sites sneak into processor fabs late at night to gain access to
hardware samples that won't be on retail shelves for months? Do you
really think they're sending
all
of that stuff back? Some are, some aren't, and to be honest, I have no
idea if Mossberg keeps the top secret stuff he's sent or not. For
someone like Mossberg or someone like me, keeping the stuff isn't
one-fifth as important as just having access to it in a timely fashion.
That whole angle has been largely lost in this discussion, and it's a
shame.[Ars Technica]
