New Cheat-Free Caps in Pepsi-iTunes Promotion?

The reporter on this Mac web site thinks maybe so. They have photos of two different types of Pepsi-iTunes contest bottle caps, one with smaller font and a more obscure seal over the lettering. They call this one "new" and speculate that it was released by Pepsi in response to the cheat posted on MacMerc, i.e. tilting the bottle to read under the cap to see if one has a winner or not.

Well, despite the possibility we don't think so. The web site's "new" cap is the only type that we have found in our area since we first set out to look for them on the Saturday following the Super Bowl. We have not yet found the "old" less cheat resistant type in our area. Perhaps that explains why we have been skeptical of the cheat from the beginning. Our "blind" record is 19 winners out of 29 bottles.

The cap labelled "old" looks like it would be much easier to read through the bleary plastic bottle covered with condensation on the outside and residual Pepsi on the inside. So it is possble that Pepsi itself discovered the cheat while making the first run of contest caps and alterred them but still distributed the more cheatable caps already made up. Anything is possible, as we all know, except that the less cheatable caps were not made only after the cheat was revealed on the internet.