“A photo that has recently cropped up on an image sharing website appears to show Apple chief executive Steve Jobs holding an iPhone conversation during a recent youth sporting event in California,” AppleInsider reports.
“Admittedly, the photo tests the boundaries of what could be considered ‘news’ and is also difficult to authenticate due to a slight motion blur. Nevertheless, it does appear to show the Apple co-founder, clad in his trademark blue jeans and black turtleneck, plugged into some form of electronics device,” AppleInsider reports.
“‘Yes, the photo is for real, and yes it is an iPhone that he was talking on, or at least it was the same size and shape,’ wrote the photographer, who goes by the tag name ‘thane’ on image sharing website, Flickr. ‘He took it out of his pocket to make calls using the touchscreen,'” AppleInsider reports.
Full article with full image here.
It would be more newsworthy if Jobs wasn’t using an iPhone.
I wonder if he wears any other clothes.
Macnutt, exactly.
Fake.
When the iPhone itself is getting paparazzi attention, you know Apple is about rock the face of the earth again. I can hardly wait to see waht the latter part of 2007 is like . . .
That was my first thought too Macnut.
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ummm..ok, so where’s the iphone? — to the photographer, can I please have my last 2 minutes of my life back…and the next time you want to take a photo and be a real paprazzo, simply get your fat ass up and walk right up and snap that photo! YOU WUSS!!!
This bitch is gonna rule the world
@macnut222, check out this..
http://www.geekculture.com/joyoftech/joyarchives/692.html
That’s fuzzier evidence than the Zapruder film!
I wonder if he wears any other clothes
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precisely. he wouldn’t wear that to a soccer game.
I mean, if you’re a celebrity.. would you…
right, fake
Ummm . . . can someone explain to me how a guy worth more than a BILLION dollars just walks around and goes to “youth sporting events” without personal protection?
While dressed in the same thing he’s almost always seen in when in public?
Nope, I’m not buying it. That could be my Uncle Jesse for all I can tell.
What the hell WAS IT, anyway? A soccer game? A baseball game? Football? Lacrosse? Parcheesi?
Only you California wack-jobs call things “youth sporting events”.
“… Apple co-founder, clad in his trademark blue jeans and black turtleneck…”
Please, all… get it right. it is a black “MOCK” turtleneck. A turtleneck goes way up and folds back down. The mock turtleneck is an extended crew neck and much more hip.
Naw…Steve Jobs doesn’t do “public” and if he did, it wouldn’t be like that. Its totally not him…different nose and profile look all the way… videographers in las vegas know these kinds of things.
Andrew Hamilton
Video Production Las Vegas
http://www.hiproductions.com
Obvious fake.
If nothing else, WHY would any responsible CEO take a near-priceless prototype product to a kiddie sports event? Why risk having it get lost, broke, or stolen?
Seems to me if you were gonna show something off, you’d do it someplace where you knew you’d be seen. A chance-spotting at an obscure event is not that place.
Apple co-founder’s kids observed engaged in para-military exercises, battlefield simulations…
(sorry)
When I’ve seen Steve Jobs without jeans and a turtleneck, he wears shorts and sandals. That said, it has been a tad nippy lately–I myself only got back into shorts this week and I’m considerably south of Cupertino–so it may be that he wore that. It feels too much of a coincidence…
So I could believe it’s a Photoshop job.
Also, where is the iPhone? I see headphones. I see no iPhone. His hands appear to be behind his back. Heck, he could be listening to an iPod.
Still, I would see no reason why Steve wouldn’t be listening or using an iPhone. Rank Has It’s Privileges, after all, and that proverbial cat is out of the bag so it’s not like he’s letting out something secret.
He’s a beta tester, that’s all.
(Ye gods–how would you like to have Steve Jobs as a beta tester? I thought the Keynote guys had it bad…)
Now that’s a serious beta tester! R&D and iPhone departments, let me guess, this is one Tester who’s feedback doesn’t go straight to the round file, right? LOL
Go Apple… so many lunches yet to be eaten, so many tender butts yet to kick.
That’s it,
Due to this clear invasion of a person’s privacy — I’m buying an iPhone to show my support.
How do we know he wasn’t listening to an iPod? Those sproting events can be boring . . .
Funny, Kevin Costner.
To those who don’t know the Zapruder film:
http://jfkmurdersolved.com/zapruder.htm
Ummm . . . can someone explain to me how a guy worth more than a BILLION dollars just walks around and goes to “youth sporting events” without personal protection?
I think it’s kinda cool such a VIP can go in public without being surrounded by a security goon squad.
However I would NOT assume that he goes unprotected or alone.
How many here have had “brushes with fame”? You’d be surprised how many well-known people trek around like everyone else.
As long as doesn’t start sporting a cape and painting his legs red and blue, I don’t care what he wears.
As long as Steve doesn’t . . .
Hoax + Wishful thinking = Even more irrationality than usual