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iPhone Coming Earlier Than June?
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Taking a look at the Apple.com job listings, there are tons of opportunities associated with iPhone. It makes me wonder how much there still is to do.
Camera, speaker, wifi, hardware, software, all of these are actively hiring.
Maybe it's all for iPhone 2.0?
Camera, speaker, wifi, hardware, software, all of these are actively hiring.
Maybe it's all for iPhone 2.0?
lol, i should hope it's for v2.0. After all, they do have to manufacture these things before june (or whenever they're released). They can't develop up to the end of may and start selling june 1st afterall.
Hmm... wish they would release it in June.. *Checks bank balence* According to my wallet, I have $3.73 saved for the iPhone.
Do you think they will sell a "stripped" version?
Of course.
One's already available in that price range.Do you think they will sell a "stripped" version?
http://www.sneakmove.com/2007/01/diy-cut-and-fold-paper-iphone.html
LOL: great minds think alike.
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Yah. Something else may be coming out earlier then expected. Its called iDon'tcare. You too can take it for a test run today. All that is required is to not be overly impressed with the iPhone.
Apple has a winner on their hands. If they had done this. If they had done that. If they hadn't done this or that. A lot of ifs involved with this phone, and more then a few people irked off as well with some of their decisions. Like Cing....AT&T to name one of the bigger ones. Gah. I just want to crawl back under the covers for another few years. Uninspiring doesn't begin to cover it.
Apple has a winner on their hands. If they had done this. If they had done that. If they hadn't done this or that. A lot of ifs involved with this phone, and more then a few people irked off as well with some of their decisions. Like Cing....AT&T to name one of the bigger ones. Gah. I just want to crawl back under the covers for another few years. Uninspiring doesn't begin to cover it.
I AM SO SICK OF PEOPLE RATING EVERYTHING NEGATIVE! How can an earlier ship date be bad? How can hidden features be bad? How can new products that weren't even announced or anticipated be bad? What's wrong with you people? This is just as stupid as people anticipating "rev B" of the iPhone - before anyone even knows what the original will do!
Extra time = 2 months to possibly not get approved. 1 month to make adjustments required. 2 months to get approved again.
HOWEVER, with that in mind there are other things that have to be sceduled like rate plans, web announcements, brochures, etc. etc. I'm sure it could happen early but they may already have things in the the pipeline.
Who knows. Early would be killer.
well knowing apple there are 2 release dates. The date that you can order them and in la la land they are shipped and the typical you wait weeks for your unit to ship. So I could easily see the La La and shipping date being early but I really do not see the iPhone making into people hands until after June.
That why it could be bad. La la land ship date do a lot of harm to apple. People expect to be able to walk into a store in June and buy this phone but apple more than likely will be in short supply so now people will get ticket off at apple and the general public is not very forgiving.
i'm gonna go with a no on the early release. I can't attest to it nor do i have any reliable source inside apple, but i just have a hunch. I think it will come out in june and if it comes out early it will be by weeks not months.
I agree, early could be a killer, i feel like a fool but i just heard about the iPhone over the weekend
I've been hearing snippets about it for the last year or so and not really noticed it.
About a year ago somebody told me about the next gen iPod that was full screen, i thought ya right...
A month ago i heard something about and iPhone and i thought it was something to do with iChat, similar to Skype...
And i've probably seen that add splashed across the apple home page a few times...
But it didnt' hit me until this weekend...
So maybe it would be good to keep delayed till june so everybody gets wind of it... (or maybe i need to start paying attention more)
and that was one of the very few times Apple actually pre announced product.
the Apple TV was on time (or a bit early) too..
most of the software was not ready at the keynote (i saw some bugs in safari, apps were missing), but nothing that would take more than a few months to solve.
to be sure we should just be looking at the FCC approval applications.
Like any US Carrier is great.
I keep hearing people complain about Cingular. I'm sure if it was on Sprint, people would complain, and same with Verizon. The thing is, all the carriers suck, and no matter which one Apple picked, they'd still get flack for it.
So stop whining just because Cingular isn't you personal preference.
Got that right. Now that I'm counting on an April release, if it doesn't come then I'm going to be super-pissed.
Why say that?
Why say Apple rarely beats it's own dates? They do it all the time. I think they do it on purpose. Let's see, the latest example: "we'll transition to Intel in a year", they did it in 7 months.TV in the first quarter? Shipping in a few days. Not sure I remember the last time they failed to meet their own imposed deadlines.
Of course, they rarely announce things in advance, so you never really know. It has seemed a little odd to me that two big announcements in recent months were future products.TV and iPhone. I guess you can make a strategic case for those two annoucements, but most of the time they announce something in advance they meet or beat their estimate. The 3GHz G5 being a notable exception. Not really Apple's fault. IBM promised something they couldn't deliver.
Why say Apple rarely beats it's own dates? They do it all the time. I think they do it on purpose. Let's see, the latest example: "we'll transition to Intel in a year", they did it in 7 months.
TV in the first quarter? Shipping in a few days. Not sure I remember the last time they failed to meet their own imposed deadlines. Of course, they rarely announce things in advance, so you never really know. It has seemed a little odd to me that two big announcements in recent months were future products.
TV and iPhone. I guess you can make a strategic case for those two annoucements, but most of the time they announce something in advance they meet or beat their estimate. The 3GHz G5 being a notable exception. Not really Apple's fault. IBM promised something they couldn't deliver.
Hmm... wish they would release it in June.. *Checks bank balence* According to my wallet, I have $3.73 saved for the iPhone.
Do you think they will sell a "stripped" version?
For $3.73 I think you will get just the "Home" button.
The earlier it comes, the sooner they get to correct the bugs, the sooner they get to put out rev2, the sooner they get to sell me one. (hopefully)
Maybe they're rating the story negative rather than the content of the story.
The rating system here doesn't make it clear what you should be rating. In this case the story seems nebulous and hopeful, so it's not very likely, hence negative.