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Apple Obscures Future Device Hints in iOS 5.1 Beta 2 with Fake References

Ryth said:
I wish they would have done some more humorous stuff like..AppleCar1,2
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Apple Car - Already released by Apple.

applecar.jpg
 
BC2009 said:
Holy crap..... Apple is going to have a very big next year. How am I going to afford all those new gadgets? :)
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You can't. Thats why your almost broke and work as a barista.. See http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FVkH9Hgvda4&feature=player_detailpage

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the8thark said:
Apple Car - Already released by Apple.

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I rest my case.. Another Apple sheep that can't really afford Apple products or the steep data plans and yet does.. because he got suckered by Mr. 6-feet-under Jobs.
 
I'm glad that the "Steve-ness" of Apple has lived on :D

(probably done by Scott Forstall)
 
scoobydoo99 said:
You really aren't getting it, are you? The whole point is to AVOID new additions - the new products will just use one of the previously "fake" i.d.'s. Why in the world would Apple go to the trouble of seeding a bunch of fake product i.d.'s only to then add "real" ones as necessary? Use some common sense.
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Tsk, tsk, asking someone on the Internet to use common sense or deductive reasoning.
 
theSeb said:
Credible rumours? Sounds like an oxymoron to me.
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Why? There's the stuff you read here....


... and then there's the credible stuff!

:eek:

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scoobydoo99 said:
You really aren't getting it, are you? The whole point is to AVOID new additions - the new products will just use one of the previously "fake" i.d.'s. Why in the world would Apple go to the trouble of seeding a bunch of fake product i.d.'s only to then add "real" ones as necessary? Use some common sense.
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Yeah, uh, I think they DID get it. What you said is what they said. (How I read it anyway). I mean once a "placeholder" which may have been added a year or more earlier becomes a real id, then it is no longer a "placeholder" is it?
 
This might signal that the Apple TV is near...

OK, if Apple is going to release an Apple branded TV they will probably be releasing it in several different sizes, they will also probably update the Apple TV set top box for those people that already own large screen TVs and are unwilling to replace them. This would add several new "Apple TV" devices to this list and make it clear that the release was coming and how many devices there would be... So it seems to me that this would be the best way to cover their intentions unlike a normal iPhone/iPod/iPad release which everyone knows is coming...
 
AlterEg0 said:
You can't. Thats why your almost broke and work as a barista.. See http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FVkH9Hgvda4&feature=player_detailpage

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I rest my case.. Another Apple sheep that can't really afford Apple products or the steep data plans and yet does.. because he got suckered by Mr. 6-feet-under Jobs.
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You are such a tool. What makes you think that he 'can't really afford Apple products'? Has it occured to you that maybe this is an older picture? Or a picture in another country were they don't change cars as frequently? Maybe this is his 'commuter' car? His hobby car?
 
Boom!

Good move by Apple. Maybe the rumor sites (ahem) will stop blogging about future iOS device product codes.
Better to focus on how much Gizmodo is offering for the latest "lost" prototypes...
 
Westacular said:
Its presence is not purely a joke, no, but giving it that name is most certainly a sort of in-joke from an Apple engineer. They could have used any number of other, more generic placeholder names for early device prototyping, but they didn't, because "iFPGA" is a pretty funny notion:

An FPGA is like a Swiss Army knife meant exclusively for electrical engineers with the knowledge and equipment to give it purpose. And that's fine: if a tool is only useful to a specialist, it's reasonable to design it with the expectation that only a specialist with use it.

Meanwhile, if you think about what Apple's iSomething branding represents (and has always represented) -- consumer devices that bring technology to the masses using simple, elegant designs that anyone can just pick up and use -- then, well, an FPGA is just about the opposite of that.

And yet, an FPGA chip and an iPad are similar, through a shared sense of versatility: just as an iPad 'becomes' whatever app you're currently running, an FPGA 'becomes' whatever chip design is currently programmed into it.

So the humour of iFPGA (and yes, I did laugh out loud upon seeing that) comes from the juxtaposition of these ideas. It's almost entirely inconceivable as a commercial product, but with a tiny shred of plausibility that makes you pause for just a moment and wonder.
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Sounds like you're reading too much into it.
When I first saw "iFPGA", I thought "you're making an SoC? oh, actually that sounds like a great idea!"

What else would you name it? "A6 test target?" Like that'd happen.
 
Of course I'm reading too much into it!

But that doesn't negate the fact that someone, at some point, could have named the entry simply "FPGA", "Test bed", "Placeholder", or any number of other more generic names but instead chose a much more playful "iFPGA" instead. I found humour in that choice, perhaps more than its author originally intended, I was dissecting that humour (rather excessively, and probably unnecessarily, yes, I admit).
 
Westacular said:
Of course I'm reading too much into it!

But that doesn't negate the fact that someone, at some point, could have named the entry simply "FPGA", "Test bed", "Placeholder", or any number of other more generic names but instead chose a much more playful "iFPGA" instead. I found humour in that choice, perhaps more than its author originally intended, I was dissecting that humour (rather excessively, and probably unnecessarily, yes, I admit).
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:) True true. iFPGA seemed natural to me because... well, pretty much everything has "i" in the front.
 
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