Asteroid a Hoax?

A e Onymus (get it? hehe!) over at LowEndMac is hypothesizing that the entire Asteroid fiasco was all part of an evil A le plan to quash rumor sites. The a umption is based on the fact that two years after the Asteroid leak, A le still ha 't released a GarageBand breakout box. If A le had actually put work into Asteroid, surely Jo wouldn't be so petty as to shut down the entire project because of a leak? (Jo is rumored to have pulled some product a ouncements at the last minute during MWSF2006 as a way of punishing the development teams for the leak.) De ite the fact that A le's competitors then knew what was brewing in Cupertino, the company still had a good head start, and could surely have pushed the product to market well before anyone else. A e postulates that A le never had the slightest intention to release Asteroid, and created the product for the precise purpose of the leak. After the leak, A le expected it would be a piece of cake to squash the rumor mill with a flood of law suits requesting the names of the mole. I tead, the EFF took over the case of the rumor sites, and a federal district court recently ruled that online journalists have all the rights and protectio as the traditional media, effectively destroying A le's claims.

While an interesting idea, I think LowEndMac might have the paranoia meter set a bit high this week. A le may be secretive, but until I see evidence to the contrary, I'm sticking with Occam's razor.