Sep 25
Okay. This has gone on long enough.
I hate to play the unnamed sources game, but I have unnamed sources like everyone else does. I just don’t usually bust them out, because I prefer to use named sources that you, the reader, know you can trust.
When the rumor popped up that Verizon is passing on the Palm Pre, my unnamed sources in the industry – call them People Who Know A Lot Of Stuff, or Sources With Knowledge Of The Situation – were pretty derisive. Verizon hasn’t passed on the Pre, my sources said; it is just letting Sprint have their time in the sun. But my unnamed sources also wanted to stay off the record, so I didn’t write about the topic. They have since changed their minds, so as to make all this idiocy stop.
Reliable analysts with actual names agree with my People Who Dare Not Speak Their Names. Deutsche Bank’s Jonathan Goldberg says Verizon will probably carry the Pre, and he has an actual name. (It’s Jonathan Goldberg.) Tavis McCourt, whose mother named him Tavis McCourt, agrees that Verizon will probably carry the Pre.
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