“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?”
Full article here.
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“What if Jason O’Grady was a diversion?”
Good point. There’s a conspiracy theory called the DiCaprio Code that involves Jason and a group of underground, monastical Mac geeks knowns as the O’Grady Noughts. Self-flagellation with SCSI cables has been rumoured (known as DeGrading) as well purchasing Scions as a high priority. Legend has it that this meaty, evil order spends many nights protecting the legend of the Moto Lisa.
Point in case: “Jason O’Grady” is an anagram for “Sad organ joy”.
It’s definitely part of the diversion.
@Nef:
Analysts can say whatever they want about future Apple products without any repercussions. Analysts don’t know jack. They’ll say anything to get more page hits.
I don’t believe O’Grady’s theory, but I believe there’s nothing to the iPhone rumors at all. I think it all started from wishful thinking on the part of the Apple rumor community. Apple would not do this to themselves – can you imagine how much their stock price is going to tank once MW rolls around and there’s no iPhone?
Seriously, the next time some analyst writes some article about what the iPhone will be like, I think I might just snap and run around killing innocent bystanders.
“I think I might just snap and run around killing innocent bystanders.”
Again?
The Reality Distortion Field is alive and well.
Who else but Apple could have well educated, highly paid analysts playing parlor games of conjecture over a publicly traded technology company with billions of dollars riding on the outcome? You cannot buy that kind of buzz or mind share. Sitting in his office, Steve Jobs is smiling.
iTV will be here earlier than we were told, as in January.
Wingsy has a point. How can a product that’s never been announced be a diversion? For that matter, how can something that’s never been announced be delayed or late?
This is shockingly crappy.
A rumor that it will be a “flop”! Sell!!!!
The reason Windows fanbois hang around here is that, like Jim Allchin, they’d much rather be using Macintosh, but – because they wouldn’t be able to show off their prowess with the Resistry (sic) and other Windows-only “features” – they stick with their poorly-designed monolith of craptaculousness.
headless Mac wasn’t such a diversion. iPhone is needed.
I’ve been saying for awhile that iPhone is a diversion….
Here’s my logic… You have all these know-nothing ANALysts (save Gene Munster who does actually DOES appear to know what he’s talking about) all singing to Nokia’s lyrics that mobile phones will eclipse and totally replace MP3 players…
This is just as likely as when all the ANALysts told us several years ago that those crappy cameras in our cell phones were going to totally replace dedicated digital cameras… Another verse from the Nokia hymn book…. Well, we all know how THAT turned out!
I believe the iPhone is to string these idiots along w/ no intentions of ever being released, until Apple has sold so many iPods, that it is simply ubundantly clear that iPods will not be replaced by the crappy MP3 players in cell phones rendering the iPhone unnecessary…
With the redesigned & gorgeous Shuffle that weighs nothing, doesn’t drain your cellphone battery, and works w/ iTunes, why would you need that crappy player integrated in your phone?
iPhone a diversion? Hmmm!?!
How do you keep a Mac user occupied?
I’ll can’t tell you until it is officially announced.
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