“There have been reports around the Web that Apple’s much-rumored iPhone has been delayed and/or that it’ll be a flop,” Jason D. O’Grady blogs for ZDNet. “Then it occurred to me – could iPhone be a diversion?”
“Apple engages in a fair amount of misinformation in the lead up to Macworld Expo San Francisco too. They’ve been known to selectively leak plausible-sounding stories to various rumor sites around the Web to throw us off the scent. Sometimes there are so many different Macworld Expo rumors that it’s virtually impossible to tell the credible from the decoys,” O’Grady writes. “What if iPhone is just a decoy?”
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Jason D. O’Grady has not been paying enough attention – these “rumors” are coming from manufacturers among other sources.
A decoy diverting attention from WHAT?
Nice idea, but wrong say many analysts.
Apparently, the secret behind the new iPhone, is that you can use either Apple’s MobileOS, or Windows mobile.
This will be implemented with “Mobile Boot Camp”
iPhone does not make sense.
i think iPhone was started because Apple feared phones with music capabilities would hurt ipod sales. but it does not.
The phone business is much to difficult to enter into.
Deals with phone companies have to be made, new phones seem to come out weekly and Apple does not have that quick turnaround. apple is lucky to get 1-2 versions of its product out each year.
what if….?
I’m personally don’t believe that Apple started the recent frenzy for 2+ year old rumor.
Damacies,
If it is a decoy, its diverting attention from a full blown PDA or tablet computing device. Heck, even if its not diverting attention I still think Apple has got to be working on a new personal computing device of somekind.
diverting attention from the Inviso!!!
YES~! Finally!
What happened to Zune Tang and God? Did that Crap out on us?
I hear Apple pays people to pose as sandwich delivery guys who stalk tech “journalists” giving them inside information along with the ham on rye, just to throw them off.
Decoy? What does that make Vista then?
I don’t get it. How can Apple be using the iPhone as a diversion if they haven’t said a single word about it?
iPhone is just a rumour generated and propagated by sites like MDN to get page hits. It doesnt exist.
@No Irony
That was very funny.
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Will Parallels also write a virtual Windows Mobile emulator to run inside Mobile OS X?
A simple to use Mac compatible smart phone makes a lot of sense. Apple would be stupid to at least not explore the possibility. At this point in time it would need to be Windows compatible as well.
An iPhone DOES makes sense as it fits with Apple’s idea of extending the Mac: digital hub.
Contacts, mp3s, photo and even video images from a camera that are easily synced or transfered to a computer would be great.
An iPod is part of the digital hub strategy as well and Apple improved upon existing products.
I think a digital camera or video cam would be very hard for Apple to get into as the products there are already very good.
iTV works as well as it extends iTunes and video off of Macs. A PDA works in this strategy too but when u add up features, u might as well buy a laptop or a smart phone.
Handwriting recognition is still fantasy because if it doesn’t recognize your writing 99% of the time without training, you won’t use it because it doesn’t “just work”.
maybe from the iPwn?
Haha…Apple is laughing @you, fanboys
And we’ll laugh when the truth (that is, no iPod on the horizon) is discovered. Then, it’d be time to launch our mobile Phune (a mixture between a mobile phone and the zune…brown would be the main colour, of course)
Hahaha
<fingers in ears> La la la la la la la la…
What if Jason O’Grady was a diversion?
Given his incredible rumor prediction accuracy in the past, the moniker would fit…
Sorray, I already ‘ave a patant on ze word, “Phune”.
Decoy so Apple can introduce the iMap: Apple’s take on GPS navigation, merged with an iPod that connects to your car’s stereo and is a bluetooth smartphone.
Um, it’s “Damocles,” not “Damacles.” I assume you are referencing Damocles, Sword of.
Oh, the iPhone is real AND a decoy.
What’s the deal with Wintel fans on MDN? I thought it was already established that their presence here was for one of two reasons:
A) They’re crapping their pants over their own doomed OS.
or
B) They secretly admire Apple and wish they’d switched years ago.
When are they gonna figure out that THEY are the unhappy computer users, not us?
I, like many others, would buy an iPod/phone as soon as it came out. I have an expensive phone made by Nokia and I use Cingular. Both are crappy. Crappy phone – crappy service. Anway, it would at least be nice to ditch this POS phone with it’s built-in camera and lame interface for something along the lines of an iPod.