The headline reads: “Gizmodo Knows: iPhone Will Be Announced On Monday.”
The entire body text of the post reads: “I guarantee it. It isn’t what I expected at all. And I’ve already said too much. – Brian Lam”
That’s all, folks.
The link is here.
[Thanks to MacDailyNews Reader “LinuxGuy and Mac Prodigal Son” for the heads up.]
No comment.
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<cough> Bullshit <cough>
Monday can’t come fast enough.
Lam is on CRACK! And THAT’S my professional opinion. I’m an ex-crackhead….hehehehe.
This late in the holiday shopping season? Dream on.
What a smart way to get some quick ad-revenue for Gizmodo.
Well – i’m convinced!
The 5th Monday after the next total solar eclipse that is…….
They’re getting all the hits they want.
MDN,
“No comment” because you have no information or because you have info that you can’t yet report?
I know, I know, “no comment.”
Could be he’s under NDA… or just making stuff up.
It is hard to believe. The least you would expect is an Apple special event announced in advance.
MW: big, as in “This would be a big deal if really true”.
I make stuff up all the time…like, for example “my hair is on fire”.
WAIT! AAAAAARRRRRRGH!!!
Apple would NEVER release anything on a MONDAY! For the following Reasons:
1. Monday is not Tuesday
2. No pre-special event cute little invite that they email to everyone.
Hot damn! I zuned myself on the headline!
This is bullshit. I guarantee it. And I’ve already said too much
Usually when MDN has no comment, they just leave off the MacDailyNews Take.
So, why did MDN make the “no comment” statement?
Reading between the lines, I believe MDN knows something, too, but can’t or won’t say.
I agree – this sounds like complete bs… But what if the key word is ‘announced’? Maybe the start of a teaser campaign leading up to Macworld, for example…
Load up on some AAPL.
Chiaki,
I agree 100%. MDN wrote “no comment” in order to tell us something is up and don’t discount Gizmodo’s report.
It’s Brilliant! Steve Jobs will destroy the current wireless market, but killing their holiday sales! Companies will be CRUSHED! People will be jumping out of windows and the stock market hits an all time technology low as people dump, Motorola, Nokia, LG and other top phone producers. Verizon, T-Mobile, Sprint – Nextel and Cingular will be ruined! Because Apple will carry their own service and then RULE the WORLD!
“I guarantee it” Muhahhhahaha
Chiaki and Dave,
You’re right! There is no reason for MDN to say “no comment” in their Take. If they have “no comment” on ANY other article, they just don’t add a Take at all.
I think MDN’s “no comment” statement means something, too.
Ok, let’s look at this:
1) MacWorld is about 4-5 weeks away. Why announce now? The big event that everyone will be watching is MacWorld.
2) It’s a Monday. Apple announces new products (almost always) on a Tuesday.
3) No invites have been sent out. This would be a HUGE announcement and would be accompanied by a lot of fanfair.
4) It would be 1 week prior to Christmas. Wrong time to announce a new product. Right now is the time to just keep selling all you have. Don’t bring confusion to the consumer.
In all, I’m just saying it smells like B.S.
This is IT!!!
I’m taking Monday off, and I’m camping out at the University Village Apple store. We’re going to have one of the worst storms in history tonight. Will that stop me? NEVER!!! Who is this Gizmodo fellow? Who cares!!!
iPHONE BAYBAY!!!
I’ll call you all on Monday from my ossem new phone.
Now everyone hold your breath.
-c
MW: ‘seemed’ (credible to me!)
I believe Gizmodo is correct! it will be announced on Monday. Monday, January 8, 2007.
Ah, Rock on Steve!
As I remember, Cingular and T-Mobile aways announce new phones on Mondays on their web sites.
Brian Allen
Utter nonsense. As someone else said, an announcement like that would ATLEAST bring some sort of launch event w/ prior invitations.
Adding a 24″ iMac to the line, that can be ‘announced’ on their website. Upgrading the Mac Mini’s, that can be ‘announced’ on their website. Adding an ENTIRELY new product in an ENTIRELY new market launching into an ENTIRELY new business would most certainly be a big event.
Nice way to get attention though.
Oh baby! APPLE.com IS UNDER CONSTRUCTION RIGHT NOW!
I generally agree this is BS but we have seen a number of things happen of late that would have not been imagined just a few years ago: multi-button mouse standard on Macs and Intel processors to name two. Could all these “leaks” be getting to SJ? Could they move up the announcement to stem all the speculation leading up to MacWorld just in case rumors have gotten out of hand? I guess we’ll know by the end of the day Monday.
no comment = too stupid to comment on
APRIL FOOLS!!!!
This has got to be real. I can’t imagine Gizmodo would, out of the blue, decide to put its reputation (such that it is) on a five-day clock.
No sense commenting, though – we’ll see on Monday…
Finally! Now I’ll be able to act like an adult and get rid of my stupid, useless Zune.
“There shall in that time be rumors of things going astray, erm, and there shall be a great confusion as to where things really are, and nobody will really know where lieth those little things with the sort of raffia-work base, that has an attachment. At that time, a friend shall lose his friend’s hammer, and the young shall not know where lieth the things possessed by their fathers that their fathers put there only just the night before, about eight O’clock.”
I think that should sum all of this up…
the only reason i can see why this would be announced on a Monday before the holidays, is that Apple struck a deal with a wireless service providers who canno wait till January to announce. They want to beat the last few days of the biggest shopping season and they usually announce their products on a Monday.
Any body knows if this will be TMobile? or Cingular?
common TMO
It’s probably a non-Apple product called “iPhone”.
For one thing, Apple has never referred to an iPod phone as an “iPhone” – it’s something the rumor sites and the fan community conjured up. So I think the simplest and most likely explanation is that some company decided to take advantage of the hype around the name and introduce a product called “iPhone” that has nothing to with iPods.
This reminds me of the guy who said some random weirdo in a sandwich shop told him Apple was going to release HDTVs last year.
http://http://www.BitchRepublic.net/
“I believe Gizmodo is correct! it will be announced on Monday. Monday, January 8, 2007.”
Missed it by that much (actually, about 3 hours).
Yeah, notice he said it will be announced “on Monday.” He didn’t say which Monday…
Just because it says iPhone doesn’t mean that it’s coming from Apple. They don’t own that trademark, so Apple could do nothing on Monday and Gizmodo could still be 100% correct, just like their TiVo scam awhile back.
I tend to agree, for all the above stated reasons, that it’s bs.
BUT,
if Apple did announce it on Monday. It would raise Apple’s already high credibility rate, as a firm which can spring surprises, to even greater heights.
Apple prefers Tuesday’s
Non-MacWorld product announcements most often come on Tuesdays, for reasons discussed here previously.
In any case, it will be announced after the Holidays so that a not-yet-in-stores product (iPhone) doesn’t end up poaching sales from the iPods that are already on retail shelves.
I hope that when this does not come about, and Apple stock falls, Brian Lam will be found in a gutter with a big headache.
Fscking idiot.
Just like Greenpeace and all the other banging about Forrester’s 65% iTunes drop. Microsoft lemmings at work again..
‘cough’ bullshit ‘cough’
If Apple was to announce the ‘iphone’ they would hold a special press event as it’s a totally new product line.
This guy is just after hits on his website, he has no documented evidence, it’s just bullshit from a sad nerd who wants to get noticed.
Ignore him.
Believe me, IF Apple is gonna launch the iphone on monday, all the tech press would have had invites to the special event and there would be posts on websites stating that Apple will be holding a special event to launch a new product.
I wonder how many website hits this clown produced with this stunt?
“Monday can’t come fast enough.”
Relax, hipster, we’ll tell you when it’s ready.
You guys are all missing another possible reason for this announcement:
Maybe someone at apple is fishing for a leak…..
‘leak’ some information to a few inside people and wait to see if and how it gets out……..
That is a load of balix imo. They will never release anything this close to christmas.
This is the funniest thread I have read on MDN in a LONG time…
“I think MDN knows something too with their ‘no comment’ statement!”
“This is total BS to drive traffic to Gizmodo”
blah blah blah
The reality is that there is no way Apple will announce a new consumer product 7 days before Christmas and within a Month of Mac World – just won’t happen.
I vote bullcrap and like others, hope this garbage does not affect Appl.
I believe MDN’s “No comment” means they expected you guys to ask, “Where’s MDN’s Take?”
MDN doesn’t know a damn thing. Any of you clowns that think otherwise are jags. They don’t do any leg work themselves. This site regurgitates news already posted on other sites. Nothing original comes out of MDN, and certainly nobody in the know is leaking them secret info.
No comment means they aren’t going to waste calories typing out what a bullshit prediction Gizmodo just made, because it’s slap you in the face obvious.
My vote is that its, BS, BC, or just plain crap. But, you never know :>)
After seeing the maelstrom created by Forrester earlier in the week,
Gizmodo is attempting to get in on the “Apple rumor mill feeding frenzy”.
OR
it will be an iPhone BUT not by Apple, someone beat Apple to the punch by trade marking the term iPhone.
There are at least 2 iPhone trademarks in the US, both for telephone devices, so those will conflict I’m sure. Neither seems to be owned by Apple. Gizmodo’s having fun with you.
Just because they’re “announcing” the iPhone on Monday doesn’t mean it will be for sale any time soon.
Apple may not have the iPhone available on monday, but an annoucement could really kick the crap out of Zune and others just when they expect to make their biggest profits. If the iPhone is as good as mant predict, I suspect many would go for an “empty box” with promise of delivery within a few months.
iPhone:
http://www.linksys.com
Can we now STOP calling it the “iPhone” since Cisco released it today AND is the one that holds that copyright and not Apple!!!
So, um, where or when is the announcement for the iPhone (or whatever it’s supposed to be called)? It’s Monday. But it is only 8:00am PDT.
This is the best we’ve been punked all year. Congrats Brian Lam. I was LMAO when I read the Linksys news today.