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AT&T Rep: Apple Has Told Us No New iPhone in June or July

Middiebear said:
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Can the front page print a retraction?...

AT&T CSRs don't receive any official information about ANY phone releases prior to general public... Let alone an iPhone release.

We weren't informed about the iPhone 4 being released until AFTER Apple's official press conference last year.

Even though I know this is a site for rumors... I've found this site to make sure the BS rumors were weeded out before it would become front-page news... But making an unsubstantiated statement by a random AT&T CSR front-page material is just plain bad journalism.

BTW: AT&T has been cracking down on customer's upgrade eligibility dates. If you downgrade/remove features/plans on your account odds are the date will be changed.

AT&T makes no promises that the date is constant and it can really change at any time...

The customer related to the article probably was suspended too many times for non-pay and that's the reason why the date was changed... Not because of some crazy conspiracy to correlate with the next iPhone release...
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So you wouldn't know by now that vacation days are mysteriously blacked out between June and July for employees such as yourself? That has ALWAYS been the giveaway for employees at Apple, AT&T, and Verizon for iPhone releases. Usually, reports begin trickling in during May that employee vacation days are out for a certain period of time, usually around WWDC, so that all hands can be on deck for a major event (like an iPhone release).

I'd be willing to bet that for the first time in quite a while, you - an AT&T rep, are able to schedule the 3rd and 4th week of June off.
 
Michael Scrip said:
Even if Apple and Google both make money from ads and apps... Apple still gets $600 per phone.

Apple has the right idea :D

"Android" can have their marketshare... I don't think it bothers Apple in the least.
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That's the point though - to compensate for the lack of profits from hardware sales, Google flood the market with their OS to make up their margins through ads and apps.

Apple are bothered and hence tried to make it more attractive for developers to use Apple over Android through Ad-Sense, thus reducing the attractiveness of Googles OS

In the end they'll probably make similar amounts of money but through slightly different routes
 
Travis284 said:
iOS 5 at WWDC and new iPhone hardware at an apple special event in September. You heard it here first.
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ugh. i always laugh at anyone who ends their 'predictions' with "you heard it here first", 'cause they nearly always end up being the most inaccurate.
 
Carlanga said:
pfft, this should not be front page news, hell not even second page... just a bunch of hearsay from a CR that knows nothing about it and speculates BS.
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Yeah, customer service reps are always soooo reliable.
 
mattlol said:
ugh. i always laugh at anyone who ends their 'predictions' with "you heard it here first", 'cause they nearly always end up being the most inaccurate.
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Travis's claim isnt new or "heard it hear first though". It's been gossiped about on this site for weeks.
 
TheyCallMeSaint said:
Disappointing, but expected. This actually brings up more questions than answers though:

1) Is this a permanent move to a Fall Release of the iPhone?
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I'm starting to think it will be. If you look at the "big picture" it makes sense. The iPod is in decline, so Apple's previous big Fall music event isn't really big anymore. The iPhone could shore that up and bring lots of sales to 4Q and maybe even, reinvigorate iPod sales.

Apple then uses early summer to push new Macs for back to school. Late winter/early Spring remains iPad.
 
Chupa Chupa said:
I'm starting to think it will be. If you look at the "big picture" it makes sense. The iPod is in decline, so Apple's previous big Fall music event isn't really big anymore. The iPhone could shore that up and bring lots of sales to 4Q and maybe even, reinvigorate iPod sales.

Apple then uses early summer to push new Macs for back to school. Late winter/early Spring remains iPad.
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I agree

The iPhone is currently the jewel in the crown for Apple so moving it to Autumn will make the latest device the main Christmas gift.

iPods won't be boosted in my opinion though; they mainly appeal to those who dont want an iPhone but use iTunes/want more than 32GB of storage.

They'll boost if they turn it into a fully fledged media behomoth that plugs into a tv and can stream as well as download from iTunes....but at a much cheaper price than an iPhone.
 
Chupa Chupa said:
If you look at the "big picture" it makes sense. The iPod is in decline, so Apple's previous big Fall music event isn't really big anymore. The iPhone could shore that up and bring lots of sales to 4Q and maybe even, reinvigorate iPod sales.
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This. Jobs spent half of last September's event talking about 4.1 and 4.2 anyway; the iPhone is the next logical step.
 
Never ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever.........

...take anything an AT&T rep says at face value. This is coming from a type of representative, where in my battles earlier this year with AT&T attempting to get back to unlimited data, who told me there was nothing they could do but gave me advice on how to seamlessly switch to Verizon (including how to port my phone number and suggested I keep my AT&T account open until I switch to VZ).

While I fully believe this story did actually take place, I believe the rep has 'ZERO' credibility.

FYI: My later wrangling with corporate was a lot more pleasant and yielded me my Unlimited iPhone data plan back.
 
I wonder if the iPhone and iPod will all release together in Aug-Oct every year. Makes sense since the iPod Touch, the major iPod, is just a castrated iPhone, so to speak.
 
Maybe this is payback for what happened last year with Gizmodo. Apple figures well this is what you get for basically getting an early unveiling of the iPhone 4 last year. We'll just give it to you even later than we usually do hehe. :cool:
 
Michael Scrip said:
Let's be clear... "Android" is an OS from Google that you can find on dozens of phones from many manufacturers.

Apple knows they can't compete with that. And they're not. Marketshare is not a goal. For instance... Android has more marketshare... now what?

It's Mac vs Windows all over again. Windows is crushing Macs 10 to 1. Dell and HP have sales that dwarf the Mac. But is Apple really in trouble with the Mac?
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Market share matters, even for Apple.

Apple did have BIG trouble when they only had Mac to sell. It was iPod, which had NO.1 market share of MP3 player, to save Apple. Then the iPhone which also had NO.1 market share of smart phone. Now it's iPad.

See, like everyone else, Apple make most of their profit from product which dominate the market.

The competition from Android is heating up this year. Apple know this better than anyone else. That's why they finally add VZ iPhone this year. I don't mind the delay of iPhone 5. But I do think iOS5 should bring the "real staff" to iPhone, or the PC vs Mac history will repeat soon.
 
Bunch of lying crap. My upgrade date hasn't "moved" as this lying reader claims happened to him, it is still 6/19/2011. Every year my upgrade date coincides very closely with the release of the new iPhone. AT&T isn't going to just push my date back (a date I earn by paying a lot every month) because there is no new iPhone in June. So this guy is confusing two separate issues in order to get his BS story out. Maybe the rep said that, maybe he didn't, but he has absolutely no info from Apple, because Apple would never ever ever ever make such a statement to AT&T.
 
This news raises all sorts of questions:

1) When will the iPhone 5 actually be released?
2) Should I go to Chipotle for lunch?
 
Crazy talk

A sales rep reply is now how low the credibility standards have fallen?
While you are collecting more hard data like this, I'll be prepping my Black card for the purchase of a pair of new iPhone 5s in June.
 
The cheaper, smaller and mainly aimed at pre-pay iPhone Nano™ will more than keep the revenue going until later in the year after it's release in 3 weeks time.
 
Ok, now everyone knows that if you call ATT and get an answer you do not like, you just call back and another rep will give you a different answer.

They do not know anything more then you and me. They answer the phone, can look up your account, and have troubleshooting screens to help you get thru problems.

They would never know any infomation like this until we already know. Period.
 
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