http://blogs.siliconvalley.com/gmsv/2006/11/apple_is_so_not.html November 16, 2006 Apple Flight 101, please stop your taxi and return to the gate Apple is so notoriously tight-lipped about its product pipeline that you'd think it would know better than to make a partnership announcement before confirming the details with all those involved (see "You have to understand, Mr. Jobs is very sensitive about premature elaboration"). Apparently not. Because it seems to have announced its airline iPod integration plan without the full cooperation of two of the airlines it claimed were involved. Air France and KLM say they have not agreed to offer their passengers iPod seat connections, as Apple claimed (see "In the unlikely event of a water landing, your iPod may be used as an emergency beacon"). "It's way too early to confirm any such details," an Air France spokeswoman told Reuters. KLM's flak was similarly indignant. "It's very premature what Apple are saying," he said. "We have no idea if this is technically feasible, if it's financially viable, or it customers want it. At this moment, we have absolutely no intention of introducing it on board." Seems clear enough; maybe something was lost in the translation.