ummm 5 days before christmas? seems like a very odd time to release a new product. Even if it's not available for a few weeks in to January this still seems like odd timing.
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iPhone Announcement on Monday?
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What are you talking about? There's articles about USB Pole dancers on there every other week!
Ok... forgot what I said!
But that's impossible for Apple to launch or even announce such a product "now", this next Monday, just before Xmas. Think about it...
That's true...I mean, I don't think that they'll just put it on the front page of the apple store. Also it is VERY close to Christmas...I think its a little too close.
For speed bumps, maybe, but for a MAJOR product like the iPhone? Can't be. Unless they have a whole new product announcement strategy.
That's fine with me...I would love to see the specs for this and count down the days until we would actually recieve it!!!
Ah-HA! Now THIS I can believe. That makes a lot more sense too. Personally, I welcome our iPhone overlords.
This is a good point. They set a bit of a precedent when they announced the iTV. Perhaps if Apple decided to become a MVNO, they'd have to file something with the FCC? Releasing a cell phone itself requires FCC approval. Maybe Apple wants to announce the iPhone project before all the details come out in some FCC report.
If (and I mean if) this is real, it would most likely just be an anouncement. I could see Apple doing this in reaction to all the rumors flying around concerning an iphone. They may be wanting to nip all the speculation and leaks in the bud before they have any negative stock affects. Nothing would be worse then for the rumors to continue to build and then for Apple to release something that can't possibly meet those ecspectations. That could hurt the stock negatively. So this might be some sort of preemptive strike on their part, once again only, if this is true.
I hope they announce it like the did the 2G shuffle...expected shipping in October...not like the iTV that didn't even appear on the website.
As a stockholder, I've been concerned about that possibility myself. All this hype, and if it doesn't come to pass, the stock plunges. You have a good point.
The iPhone news has turned from speculation about upcoming iPhone features to iPhone speculation getting out of hand. Apple could heap some proverbial coals onto the fire with an announcement.
I would think that all these rumours will land closely to each other but they aren't.
What is stopping these analysts from making random speculation?
We should plot a chart of these analysts of how many times their speculation come true, or false. Then everytime they say something, attach the link of the chart to it. It's meant to discredit those that make random speculations, and prevent us from setting high hopes..
i think we should..
What is stopping these analysts from making random speculation?
We should plot a chart of these analysts of how many times their speculation come true, or false. Then everytime they say something, attach the link of the chart to it. It's meant to discredit those that make random speculations, and prevent us from setting high hopes..
i think we should..
Are you kidding me? That would pretty much wipe out at least 1/3-1/2 of remaining iPod sales between now and the release while people wait for it to come. That's a 100% not gonna happen.
That's what I've been thinking. With all the stock analyst already certain that their is a iphone on the way, they are all figureing that into the projected stock value into next year. If this continues, and Apple doesn't release what they've come to expect will be released, they will start to downgrade Apple's stock for no reason other than their over expectations.
Watch, there is no iPhone and all this iPhone rumor stuff was just meant as a distraction for us so Apple could unveil something completely different.
seems odd, why do it then, what not at MWSF, unless MWSF is so super this year they don't have time for a stupid iphone announcement
I think the above-quoted post captures the significance of the Gizmodo story. People have been using "iPhone" for Apple's cell phone as a convenience, but there's not solid evidence that it'll actually be called that, and I was under the impression that someone else holds the rights to the name. So maybe Lam knows about a product that's actually called "iPhone" and will be announced on Monday. Gizmodo holds their own and is not going to suffer huge drops in traffic when one of their editors plays a little joke on fanboys.
P.S. That last time he made the hint about the TiVo update, I didn't expect it to be about Apple at all. He said before the Apple event, but I didn't think he was implying a connection. And TiVo news, especially HD-related, is big news to a lot of Giz's readers..
