Giving Thurrott his props

David Berlind asks “Who broke the Apple news?” He points out that the Wall Street Journal wasn’t the first to break the story, as Steve Jobs claimed during his WWDC keynote. However, Berlind credits C|Net’s June 3 story. However, more than a month beforehand, Paul Thurrott broke the story in this April 26 column, although he didn’t cite sources until May 23rd– the same day the WSJ printed their story. I’m disappointed to see the widespread lack of recognition for Thurrott, because he was the original person to break the story. And no, saying that David Coursey predicted this in August 2002 doesn’t count as prior art, since that was a prediction and not a report of the actual transition.

{ed: updated to add a trackback to Berlind’s original article}