Scott Moritzof TheStreet.com has a hang for land exclusive stories — Microsoft - post phones , Verizon - based iPhones and more — but his path record is n’t exactly the best base on whatTechnologizerfound in their partitioning of these “ exclusive ” stories .
TheStreet.com ’s Scott Moritz has an exciting exclusive : Northeast Securities analystAshok Kumarhaslearned that Microsoft is working on a Microsoft - branded phonebased on itsWindows Phone 7 Series OS . It ’ll be manufacture by HTC , and software problems have postponed its release into 2011 .
The story would seem to give new life to honest-to-goodness hearsay about aMicrosoft phone , codification - named project “ Pink . ”Except … Scott Moritz story headlined as”exclusives”–usually crediting Kumar for the scoop – have a crummy track record of exclusively revealing stuff that turns out to be straight . When I see them , my instinctive response is incredulity , not politic acceptance of anything in the level as gospel .
Shall we recapitulate ?
The sole : Verizon , disgruntled over Palm Pre sale , decides not to betray the phone :
The result : At January ’s CES show , announced it would betray Palm ’s Pre Plus and Pixi Plus , starting by and by that calendar month . ( Of course , it ’s conceivable that Verizon changed its head , and if you want to get really technical , you might grapple that the Pre Plus is n’t a Pre . )
The exclusive : Googleplans to to sell an Android phone through retailers by the close of the year , bypass wireless aircraft carrier , aver Kumar :
The upshot : The Google telephone is material , and it almost shipped in 2009 . Moritz ’s account says it will apply a Qualcomm Snapdragon Saratoga chip ( right ) and speculates that it might be built by HTC ( ditto ) . But it ’s sold direct by Google , not at retail – and it ’s offer with a rather non - disruptive T - Mobile declaration .
The undivided : Kumar says that the much - anticipated Apple tablet will use a chip from Apple ’s own PA Semi partition , not an Intel CPU :
The upshot : Bingo ! ( Of course , the real surprisal would have been if the iPhone - like iPad did apply an Intel C.P.U. . )
The undivided : A new iPhone uncommitted on Verizon Wireless this summertime wpack a Qualcomm wireless chip , Kumar enjoin :
The upshot : We may not know for a few month if there ’s anything to this one .
The undivided : : Kumar has learned that the Apple pill willuse Verizon Wireless for broadband – proven by its use of a Qualcomm chip :
The event : Less than a workweek later , Apple unveiled the iPad . Its 3 G translation will run on AT&T. I ’m not sure if anyone who is n’t necessitate with manufacturing of iPads knows for sure if there ’s any Qualcomm technology inside .
That ’s three exclusives that turned out to be whole or partly bogus , one that was right , and two ( counting the raw Microsoft one ) that may or may not amount to anything . Even if you assume that both the Qualcomm iPhone and Microsoft telephone exclusives will pan out , chances would be fifty percent that Moritz was right , and fifty percentage that he was wrong .
Anyone desire to explicate why Moritz celebrate relaying Kumar ’s rumors as “ sole ” fact – and why TheStreet permit him do so ?
reissue with permission fromTechnologizer .
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