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iPhone Used to Browse MacRumors.com?

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It looks like someone at Apple has started more openly testing the Apple iPhone across web sites, including MacRumors.com.

One reader tipped us off that they had come across iPhone browser identification strings in the Apache logs of their eBay images. According to their submitted logs, the browser identifies itself as:
Mozilla/5.0 (iPhone; U; CPU like Mac OS X; en) AppleWebKit/420+ (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/3.0 Mobile/1A538a Safari/419.3
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While browser identification strings can be easily spoofed, these requests originated from Apple's internal IP addresses.

After this tip, we were able to confirm similar findings in our own logs, verifying the above claims.
 
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https://www.macrumors.com/2007/05/25/iphone-used-to-browse-macrumors-com/
Perhaps...

If this proves that folks at Apple look at MacRumors, then they clearly must have some idea of what users really want. Hopefully, they read the thread that was a nearly unanimous negative on the demise of the Mini, because it can't go away.
 
The perfect feel good news to hear after watching the perfect feel good film (Ferris Bueller :D )
 
Arn,

So which rumors/forums did the good people at Apple look at whilst they were here at MacRumors?
 
Well, it was confirmed some time ago (by the mods) that Apple employees occasionally browse the site.

* waves to Apple employees *

And, it's news because it proves there are actual functional units roaming around, and we can determine some (but not much) information from the browser string.
 
Detlev_73 said:
If this proves that folks at Apple look at MacRumors, then they clearly must have some idea of what users really want. Hopefully, they read the thread that was a nearly unanimous negative on the demise of the Mini, because it can't go away.
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Yeah... because the opinions of 400 Mac zealots make a dent in the Mini's target market. :p
 
I bet Apple Employees also want to know what the rumors are. They probably don't know everything that's behind closed doors at Apple either.

As for the testing... good. Let's hope they're testing the iPhone browser 24/7... to make sure it works on as many sites as possible.
 
Peel said:
Arn,

So which rumors/forums did the good people at Apple look at whilst they were here at MacRumors?
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I don't feel comfortable posting any specific information from our own logs, as we generally are pretty strict about privacy of information when people browse our site. What I posted was submitted from an outside individual and I was able to verify it to be reputable.

arn
 
SteveG4Cube said:
Yeah... because the opinions of 400 Mac zealots make a dent in the Mini's target market. :p
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The mac fans have a great impact on the market...people convince other people to switch, who convince other people to switch, who convince other people to switch, who...
 
szark said:
And, it's news because it proves there are actual functional units roaming around, and we can determine some (but not much) information from the browser string.
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Apple would be insane NOT to have functional units being tested within a month of the product's launch.
 
Wow... someone used an iPhone to look at a website and it's news
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Sorry if it's not newsworthy enough for you, buddy. We'll try and hunt down something that will suits your tastes. :rolleyes:

Awesome! Wish we had some accompanying pics.
 
I'm guessing it's fully functional seeing as launch date *appears* be less than 30 days away.

I've seen the videos a bazillion times but I am really looking forward to seeing firsthand how internet browsing on the iPhone pans out.
 
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