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'The Beat Goes On' Rumor Wrapup: Winners

commonpeople said:
A bit like how everyone thinks they can tell the difference between audio compression rates (they can't).
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I think it's more like when listening to one after another, they can tell. But if the next day you play a format for someone and ask them what it is, they probably won't be able to tell you.

Though I agree it's amusing that people cannot seem to be able to tell a real photoshop from a fake and be so arrogant about it.
 
"Meanwhile, Apple's legal involvement in both of these instances reinforces the fact that they have never requested the removal of fakes or mockups."
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Excuse me? Does the Apple Asteroid and the legal brou-ha-ha around that ring a bell? There have been other examples over the years though I can't remember the details of them right now. The Asteroid, however, is a stunning example of the fact that saying Apple Legal has "never" requested the removal of something that may very well have been a fake is blatantly incorrect.
 
phlops said:
Excuse me? Does the Apple Asteroid and the legal brou-ha-ha around that ring a bell? There have been other examples over the years though I can't remember the details of them right now. The Asteroid, however, is a stunning example of the fact that saying Apple Legal has "never" requested the removal of something that may very well have been a fake is blatantly incorrect.
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Or perhaps that device is still in the oven?
 
phlops said:
The Asteroid, however, is a stunning example of the fact that saying Apple Legal has "never" requested the removal of something that may very well have been a fake is blatantly incorrect.
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1. Asteroid information was never removed. http://www.appleinsider.com/article..._firewire_audio_interface_for_garageband.html
2. It wasn't fake. Apple may have never released it, but it certainly wasn't fake. Apple took a number of sites to court to get the leaker.

There have been other examples over the years though I can't remember the details of them right now.
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No, there haven't been other examples.

arn
 
C00rDiNaT0r said:
IMO Apple is doing a good job keeping secrets if it's important.

Look at companies like Sony and Microsoft... psp, ps3 and xbox360 price drops were revealed before the actual price drops, some even posted ads from circuit city. Has the same ever happened to Apple? Even just for the new iPods?
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I don't know about price drops, but I am sure everyone will remember the G5 page going up on the apple site the day prior to release (or was it more than a day, can't remember exactly).
 
nice to see that 9to5mac got so many things right.
they said they knew what's coming and they didn't lie
 
The one thing I don't recall seeing ANY rumors about was the precise item that caused so much gnashing of teeth here--the price drop on the iPhone. Did anyone have that?

Bob
 
Hats off to 9to5mac, they seem to have been on the ball a few times now and are definitely not a fluke. I'll be giving their reports a little more serious consdieration from now on. I don't know where I'll go though if I want Mac info between the hours of 6 and 8 though... :confused:

:p ;) :D
 
I have only been apart of the :apple: scene and news for a little under a year now, and it's interesting to see, this past year, all the events that happen and watching the rumors sites flexing their best.
the 9to5mac site is very interesting to hear from now days since they seem to be hitting the nail on the head every time(every time?)
Other sites have been pretty good about their predictions and rumors.
Now bring on the Leopard rumors! :)


DTphonehome said:
Pwned by arn...ouch!
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bbqpwned!
 
Naimfan said:
The one thing I don't recall seeing ANY rumors about was the precise item that caused so much gnashing of teeth here--the price drop on the iPhone. Did anyone have that?
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It was submitted to MacRumors prior to its official announcement, but I don't believe any of the major rumors sites picked it up. I could be wrong though, as there are quite a few of them out there! ;)
 
~Shard~ said:
It was submitted to MacRumors prior to its official announcement, but I don't believe any of the major rumors sites picked it up. I could be wrong though, as there are quite a few of them out there! ;)
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There's a rumor site aside from Macrumors? ;)
 
phillipjfry said:
Now bring on the Leopard rumors! :)
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I don't think there is too much else to be unveiled with respect to Leopard other than its official release date. And even that isn't too hard to figure out - Jobs indicated an October relase for Leopard, which means it will be no doubt released on October 31 as 11:59pm EST. :p ;) :cool:
 
Actually, I would say this community indirectly predicted the iPhone price drop.

So many times when people would mention the idea of an iPod touch-like device, people would reply, "That would be commercial suicide for the iPhone," or "That would cannibalize iPhone sales," or "Why would Apple want to kill the success of the iPhone so soon?" etc. etc. As we got closer to the keynote and rumors started spreading about the iPod touch, it seems like everyone kind of forgot about how Apple would keep the iPhone hype going after releasing a device that ultimately did the same thing iPhone did, sans the phone and the (cheapest) $80 AT&T monthly plan. When you start thinking about that, one of the very few options Apple has is to lower the price of the iPhone.

Out of all the far-fetched speculation I've seen on here in the past, I'm actually surprised nobody saw it coming.
 
Thanks Guys

Thanks Arn and Macrumors peeps for the recognition! Much appreciated from big Macrumors.com fans at 9to5mac.com

We'll keep the goods coming! But obviously on a much more subliminal level now that we are in the Apple legal cross hairs.
 
morphineseason said:
Out of all the far-fetched speculation I've seen on here in the past, I'm actually surprised nobody saw it coming.
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As I said, it was indeed submitted as a news item and discussed by a few members here (mostly pessimists who said there was no way the rumor could be true!) but you are correct, there wasn't a lot of weight to it until it was actually announced.
 
sartinsauce said:
You know, like most people, I thought that photo of the 5 nanos was a fake. In fact, I even thought it was a fake after Apple Legal requested it's removal. I just figured they were smoking out their leaks.

I wanna go back to some of those threads and see how many people were screaming "Fake!" or "Worst Photoshop job I've ever seen!"
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The leaks of the iMac keyboard photos was claimed to be fakes too, some said it was a photochop that I remember, but there weren't any telltale signs of photo fakery that I could find. I can see people claiming the nano photos to be fake, because they technically are mockups of something, maybe that nano version didn't exist when the image was originally made.

Weren't there a lot of mispredictions though? It looks like this article lists mainly the rumors that turned out to be true or partly true, not telling us all the rumors that were false.
 
Cleve said:
Thanks Arn and Macrumors peeps for the recognition! Much appreciated from big Macrumors.com fans at 9to5mac.com

We'll keep the goods coming! But obviously on a much more subliminal level now that we are in the Apple legal cross hairs.
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Good luck with that - it is not exactly an enviable position! Just keep in mind it's for the greater good... :D ;)

9to5mac's credibility has definitely been raised in my books... :cool:
 
Squonk said:
:apple: legal SHOULD request some of the fake mock-ups to be removed to keep us all guessing as long as they don't raise the prices to pay for this! :D
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If word got out that they were claiming ownership of images they didn't make, Apple legal would probably lose credibility.
 
JeffDM said:
The leaks of the iMac keyboard photos was claimed to be fakes too, some said it was a photochop that I remember, but there weren't any telltale signs of photo fakery that I could find. I can see people claiming the nano photos to be fake, because they technically are mockups of something, maybe that nano version didn't exist when the image was originally made.
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Yeah, you definitely have to take everything with a grain of salt and an open mind these days.
 
morphineseason said:
Actually, I would say this community indirectly predicted the iPhone price drop.

So many times when people would mention the idea of an iPod touch-like device, people would reply, "That would be commercial suicide for the iPhone," or "That would cannibalize iPhone sales," or "Why would Apple want to kill the success of the iPhone so soon?" etc. etc. As we got closer to the keynote and rumors started spreading about the iPod touch, it seems like everyone kind of forgot about how Apple would keep the iPhone hype going after releasing a device that ultimately did the same thing iPhone did, sans the phone and the (cheapest) $80 AT&T monthly plan. When you start thinking about that, one of the very few options Apple has is to lower the price of the iPhone.

Out of all the far-fetched speculation I've seen on here in the past, I'm actually surprised nobody saw it coming.
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The AT&T plan including unlimited data is $60 per month. All other phones in the same class are charged $80 per month for similar items. Therefore over the life of the contract you actually save over $480 ($20 x 24 + tax) if you use the iPhone. So even at $500, it's like getting the iPhone for free...
 
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