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Comment by teraflop | Hacker News Reader

Is there any reason to believe that this actually happened and isn't just an Apple employee feeding PR fluff to MacRumors? It's essentially unverifiable.

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True or not, this story is pretty much just fluff anyway. I clicked the title, because I figured it would be something interesting since it was on HN, but I just got a tiny anecdote about a company being nice.

"You can get good PR by giving your customers free products." This is worth reading?

They do have a reputation for taking good care of their customers. I believe that qualifies as "any" reason. Secondly, considering their margins, it's probably the best bang for the buck with their advertising dollars. Tens of thousands of impressions for $226 (or whatever it costs them to make the dang thing).

Agreed, there is no source link. There is 1 link to the "story" on macrumors and another to the forum discussion.

I suspect it's true. It's certainly Apple's style. But of course there is no proof.

Think about it: if Apple put out a press release saying "we're awesome because we sent this guy a free iPad 2", everyone would (rightly) think it was crass.

What (allegedly) happened here is far classier.

well, not having an external source link simply means this is the source. Whether or not you believe it or not is a separate issue.

disclaimer: I wrote the article, and I believe it likely to be true, but can't verify it for certain, unless the Apple VPs or guy who-got-iPad steps forward.

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