Right? How naive must he be to think that a denial from a corporate PR department is unquestionably true? And from McLaren, no less. They are masters of doublespeak and flat out lying.

The Financial Times reported it because multiple independent sources they trust told them it was true. What don’t you understand? The basics of how journalism works?

“When asked if one of McLaren’s minority investors, such as the Bahraini sovereign wealth fund known as Mumtalakat could be willing to divest its stake, the source said that would not entail an Apple takeover, either.”

This device absolutely requires removable media, and any type of flash memory card + reader is much, much thinner than an optical disk drive. And have you ever actually taken apart a device with a card reader and looked at it? An SD card reader is thinner than a 3.5mm headphone jack, which the NX presumably will also…

If Congress is trying to expand the Patriot Act, you can hopefully prove it via something other than www.rare.us.