[citation][nom]amk-aka-phantom[/nom]Dear Tom's Hardware,As much as I respect this website and its news team (except Gruener), I'd like to request you to stop assuming that your audience consists of "average users" and hence stop using the word "leak" to describe what should be called a "release" instead.TL;DR: I don't believe that Apple, MS, Google and others are dumb enough to have these "leaks" all the time. Use the correct terminology.Sincerely, amk-aka-phantom[/citation]
a leak usualy comes from someone inside who wants to get something out, possibly didn't know, and or it was given to someone and they weren't suppose to release it ever/if at all, not till a certain date.
what you could think, more than release, is someone broke an nda and got these out, as thats the most likely.
rumor leaks though, with nothing to back them up, are just rumors.
and so you also know, the reason these kind of things never get pulled/dont get pulled, is because they are treated as rumors by most, and most of the time people think its fake, if it gets pulled... well... we than know for a fact it was real.
point being, for minor leaks its better pr to turn a blind eye.
leak in video games however... that is a different story. while i can believe that some pres kits were given to bad blogs that release the content, i just cant believe it happening as often as the word leak is used.