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Apple Obscures Future Device Hints in iOS 5.1 Beta 2 with Fake References
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Huh? How difficult is it to just remove the references to unannounced products BEFORE sending the beta to developers?
Not only do I find the huge list very funny, I actually laughed at that iFPGA reference.
Wikipedia entry for FPGA.
edit: xsmasher beat me to it.
Not too long a visionary on this forum suggested that they will probably do this to mess with us in the future. I wish I could remember who posted that.
Visionary or Apple programmer?
What's sad is there will be analysts that don't read/look at any of this and report that Apple has X amount of products in the works for 2012.
I wish they would have done some more humorous stuff like..AppleCar1,2
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Tricky tricky
Tricky tricky
Okay so, I read most of that Wikipedia entry and I still don't get the joke. I'm probably not geeky enough to get it. Phew, good sign my sanity is still intact.
So this is a brain dead Easter egg?
The telling evidence will continue to be web usage logs. Yes they may use spoofed names there too, but they will use SOMETHING.
Hey Apple, stop doing things deceptive and start doing things cute or humorous. Please? Thanks.
FTR the current methods were great for stock prices and sales. If it ain't broke, don't fix it.
Rocketman
Come on, don't tell me this
isn't humorous!
I mean it lists an iPad 11.1!!!
It's like a treasure hunt, find the correct next product!
I think there must be a away to spot the fake entries by cross-referencing these with similar entries in other .plist files and looking at the content of those entries.
I'll look into it later if I have the time.
I'll look into it later if I have the time.
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I think the joke is that Apple would never make something like an FPGA. They're not the type of company to give you the freedom of doing what you want (until recently we couldn't even use custom text tones for example). An FPGA on the other hand is useless without your own "customization" to it.
TheSuperSteve said:
I think the joke is that Apple would never make something like an FPGA. They're not the type of company to give you the freedom of doing what you want (until recently we couldn't even use custom text tones for example). An FPGA on the other hand is useless without your own "customization" to it.
Since a FPGA can be programmed to be almost anything, you can read the joke as Apple listing "iAnything" instead of "iFPGA".
I.E. you can keep looking at that list all you want, you'll never guess.
What??? iPhone11,3???
THAT's got to be the iPhone 5... or is it the Powerbook G5?
Some people got way too much time on their hand...
THAT's got to be the iPhone 5... or is it the Powerbook G5?
Some people got way too much time on their hand...
It's the geeky version of an "iToaster" or "iPotholder" or "iCar" joke.
The very-funny part is some sites taking the reference and running with it, as though it were a real product.
