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Analysis of the "1" notification on the iPhone icon

MustangJoe said:
Could it be for the new notification system?
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Why are so many people interpreting an icon with a regular old style notification badge on it to somehow symbolize the new notification system?

If they wanted to suggest something about the new notification system, they would have made the invitation look something like the new notification system.
 
admanimal said:
Why are so many people interpreting an icon with a regular old style notification badge on it to somehow symbolize the new notification system?

If they wanted to suggest something about the new notification system, they would have made the invitation look something like the new notification system.
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I don't know and I don't care what it stands for now. That's just my opinion on what I think it is. I'm not going to turn my life upside down over this digital invitation. Tuesday better hurry up! I want to see my new phone and this madness has to stop!
 
The most controversial thing about the invitation, is the fact that the red circle inside the badge is not aligned properly.
 
Let's talk...voice recognition

1...You have 1 notification and it is this invitation to see our sweet presentation of Apple stuff.
 
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DeusInvictus7 said:
I think it means there's one phone, a full "5", that they are introducing, instead of having a "4S" and "5" type deal.

On a side note, I swear Apple has the best marketing team ever, creating hype like no other company can. :D
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Must be the sweetest job ever.

Marketing Employee #1 - "Hey, what should we do today to hype up the unannounced iPhone that everyone is waiting for?"

Marketing Empoohed #2 - "I think we should do nothing and let everyone's imagination go wild."

Marketing Employee #1 - "Brilliant!"
 
Bobby Corwen said:
Usually when someone says

"LETS TALK"

its a bad thing. Like here, sit down for a second; we need to talk...

...we only have 1 phone for now... and... its only the 4S...
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I was actually reading it that way too, for a while.

But then I realized, that it doesn't have to be the case. It could be a very innocuous way of saying "I know you guys are angry/annoyed about still no iPhone 5, but look, we're doing a special event now to update you guys on the new iPhone."

Or of course it could just be a play on words about the voice features, most likely.
 
"Let's Talk" has negative connotations about it.

But maybe it's them saying "Hey I know we haven't said much. But I want to talk about what we are actually doing."
 
AIP5 said:
I was actually reading it that way too, for a while.

But then I realized, that it doesn't have to be the case. It could be a very innocuous way of saying "I know you guys are angry/annoyed about still no iPhone 5, but look, we're doing a special event now to update you guys on the new iPhone."

Or of course it could just be a play on words about the voice features, most likely.
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That. Not the first part. That's just silly - people projecting their own expectations onto the invitation.
 
admanimal said:
Each icon has an extremely clear and in no way hidden message.

The calendar icon tells us the date of the event.
The clock tells us the time of the event.
The Maps icon tells us where the event is (yes, the icon has a real highway and street layout on it...of the Apple campus in Cupertino).
The phone icon tells us they have a message for us.

That's it.
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This makes the most sense to me. Well done.
 
I hope this new CEO reads this blog and makes fun of all of you during the unveil for all this crap!
 
"Let's Talk" only sounds negative by itself. When you throw an improper noun after it, it becomes much less threatening.

Let's talk dogs!

Let's talk comic-con!

Let's talk pyromania!

See what I mean? My money is on "let's talk" hinting at the voice integration.
 
"Let's Talk iPhone" simply means that they're talking about the iPhone and introducing Assistant.
Like, think of it this way; "Let's Talk, iPhone".

The 1 on the phone icon wasn't put there randomly. You can add all 4 icons and add that 1 = iPhone 5.

OR, the 1 could mean 1 new carrier(Sprint)...just like 1 new message or whatever.

Of course, time will tell.
 
I believe that the "Let's talk iPhone"-sentence leaves the impression that Apple finally are ready to talk about the iPhone. Therefore the notification shown on the iPhone-icon is hinting at the fact, that when we were all waiting for Apple back at WWDC they didn't answer our call about the iPhone.

Hell, it could be anything. I'm hoping for a re-design, but I'll buy it anyway.
 
I believe the "1" means that the next iPhone will be one phone to end it all, like it'll be "one" world phone. I mean come on, VodaFone is getting it, Sprint is getting it, I'm sure many other carriers will as well, given that they actually put the Gobi-based QualComm chip in it that would practically make it a universally programmable device.
 
Is it possible that the badge means oops we missed are original release. I mean whenever you get a badge on the phone app it means you missed your call or have a voice mail.
 
....Or perhaps there is no real hidden meaning to it.

It's an iPhone event, the "1" is on the phone icon which usually indicates a missed call or voicemail, which means that someone wants to talk to you.

The tagline is "Lets talk iPhone"

???

Profit?
 
so it looks as though Apple will release just 1 iPhone this year. That doesn't mean that it will be just a marginal update.

iPhone 5 (complete redesign)

with iOS 5

with Assistant feature

with Apple's native in-house Navigation App
 
It means the new iPhone has a Call Notification light!!!!!:)

(which Ive wanted for years).
 
It's all just promo for the Number 23 part 2 with Jim Carrey. If you take the 10 from the clock icon, add the 4 from the calendar icon, add the 2-8-0 from the map icon, then subtract the 1 from the phone icon...23. Took me a few minutes to figure out that 23 was somewhere in this, but bam, the system doesn't lie.
 
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