“Apple is going to celebrate 6 years since the launch of the original iPhone, presented by Steve Jobs in San Francisco on June 29th, 2007,” Adam Landonn reports for Technorati.
“Gizmorati‘s Matthew Lucas reports that an Apple inside source told the tech news publication ‘the iPhone 5S and the iPad 5 will be unveiled during a special event called ‘Original Passion, New Ideas’, on June 29, 2013,'” Landonn reports. “He also reports that Apple will celebrate iPhone’s 6-year anniversary since the smartphone was unveiled by Steve Jobs, and the unveiling of the new devices, iPad 5 and iPhone 5S by Tim Cook.”
Landonn reports, “The iPhone 5 was the last model to receive detailed input from Jobs, according to Businessweek.”
Read more in the full article here.
MacDailyNews Take: If you planned on celebrating 6 years of iPhone, wouldn’t you do it with an “iPhone 6,” not an “iPhone 5S”?
On a Saturday?
I know, right? Geez, there is no way this is happening on a Saturday…what a stupid rumor!!!
eh…either way it was just gonna be yet another row of icons (that thing gets any longer, it’s gonna need a condom–hahahaa –that’s what she said…….no….that’s Literally what she said—–) and an even more wafer thin iPad this time with a Cornea resolution display and yet another even more proprietary connector–cause that usb mini thing is just too ubikwit…yubiqwit……….all over the place…….a GED is a terrible thing to waste.
they had particular pattern to announce new product in the past during Steve era. but it’s not anymore. it’s Tim Cook. he isn’t care which date if they are ready to release, then do it. but I don’t expect any innovation on those because all new function, technology are already found in android now. of course, they could change design little bit, and replace faster CPU or GPU, more memory, etc. these are all they have done so far. no innovation. shame on apple.
Is that the Mayan calendar? On mine, it’s a Wednesday.
you are looking at May
Oops. My bad. Sorry. (I was looking at May, which is close to Mayan.)
My memory says the iPhone was introduced in January 2007 at the MacWorld keynote because I was there.
January 9, 2007 to be exact. It’s listed in the Apple Keynotes Podcast.
June 29 was the date to buy. My son reminds me of it because it was on his birthday.
I remember that day well, because I stood in the rain for 6 hours (Spokane, WA) to get mine (still have it). At 60 years of age (then) I was the oldest in line.
Maybe they got the announcement tangled up with the launch date. I could see it announced sometime earlier in June and then launching June 29th, commemorating 6 years since the original iDay.
That makes more sense
Launch before AAPL 4Q begins to jack up numbers?
I think it was introduced in January but available for sale on June 29.
Yes, delay needed for FCC approval and all.
By the way: “Original Passion, New Ideas”???? Does that sound like an Apple presentation? To me it sounds like some half-baked slogan for an advertising agency.
I was thinking the same thing. “Original Passion” strikes me as a possible Apple event title–I can come up with half a dozen oblique references it could be making. But “Original Passion, New Ideas” is just lame.
Regardless. Apple doesn’t celebrate historical events. That goes against forward thinking. They’ll mention those dates as it pertains to a new product’s launch, but not to celebrate or honor a specific date. Look at the 10 year anniversary of Apple retail, barely a blip. We, the fans, celebrate Apple’s notable dates for them. Tim and the gang keep pushing for the future and we love them for it.
Actually, Apple did celebrate anniversaries before the return of Steve Jobs — think TAM among others. No one other than Tim Cook and a few others knows if Apple will start to do so again. However, six years seems like a very unusual anniversary to restart celebrating such things.
Unusual, I would agree. But probably not unexpected. Seems people will celebrate any “year” anniversary of just about anything, just as an excuse to celebrate something, no matter how trivial or mundane. Guess it is important to them though.
So far no one was able to predict such Apple events even as close as 10 days ahead. Now someone claims to have “sources” more than 3 months ahead? I don’t buy this s…
I agree.
Freeze the market like M$ thought they could.
Maybe with a 3SSS?
Personally, I would like to see Apple introduce an iPod touch with a 4.7-5″ screen.
You and millions of other potential buyers.
Yes, but why leave it there? The device should be a WiFi-only companion to a larger iPhone. iPhone Plus/iPod touch XL. That should be the plan. If it can work as an iPod then it can work as an iPhone.
MDN take is spot on.
iPhone 5s… where the ‘s’ stands for six!
Doesn’t make any publicity sense to release both the iPhone and the iPad at the same time, so I’m not buying the rumor. To my knowledge, this kind of category blurring in press events has never happened with Apple.
MDN should know better!
It’s 3, 3s, 4, 4s, 5…………get the idea?
Paul should know better!
It was 3G, 3GS, 4, 4S, 5….
🙂
Let me add one more reason why this rumor is stupid…
Unless the iPhone 5S and iPad 5 were simple spec bumps, they’d require a new iOS. This is especially true if there was any “new ideas” put into it.
A new iOS would have been showing up in logs by now, if not also beta released for developers.