“With Apple rumors getting spread around more than ever (and regular coverage from national news media), it’s important to remember that many (most?) tend to be either completely untrue or so premature they never come true. So here’s a look back at 10 of the worst offenders,” Eddie Hargreaves writes for The Apple Blog.
Hargreaves’ 10 Biggest Apple Rumors (that never came true)
1. Disney to buy Apple/Apple to buy Disney
2. Apple Plasma TVs
3. iPods pre-loaded with music
4. Apple to buy record label Universal Music Group
5. Justin Long no longer doing Mac ads
6. Apple PDA
7. Tablet Mac
8. iHome Media Center/DVR
9. $100 Striped, Mini iPods
10. Piles
Full article with descriptions and history for each of the 10 rumors above here.
What about “Home on iPod?” Oh, right, that’s coming in Leopard. 
Or how about the mythical 3GHz G5 or the G5 PowerBook?
I wonder if he is related to Alice in Wonderland – Alice Hargreaves?
G5 Powerbook
I wouldn’t bet against a tablet Mac…
Piles did come true. My wife has some beauties after giving birth to our first kid.
I get piles. 🙁
we thought of them first!
Beatles catalog on iTunes
3. iPods pre-loaded with music
What about the U2 iPods/Harry Potter iPods… or didn’t they come “preloaded” but downloadable after purchase?
Well for the PDA what about the touchscreen Newtons, and as a side note I think stripped is mispelled, “9. $100 Striped, Mini iPods”
@balmer
What??! You’re not claiming a patent on them?
I’ve got piles of piles
Sorry about my last comment, the article was talking about a PDA after Newton, although for small business the iPhone could work…
Some of that will come true… it just hasn’t, yet. But it will. Mark my words!
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MW: “Couldn’t” … so, maybe not. Bummer. 🙁
What about the “death knell?” Apple was supposed to go out of business umpteen times in the past few years.
What about the “death knell?” Apple was supposed to go out of business umpteen times in the past few years.
Damn! I almost forgot!
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Even our beloved “beleaguered” seems to have packed up and moved to, er, greener pastures…!
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This just in:
Isn’t Justin Long also a porno star?
The Apple flying car.
> Tablet Mac
Interestingly, there is only one “Mac” rumor on the list. How did Justin Long make the list? The folks who thought up this list obviously do not have a long-term memory.
What about asteroid?
More NuBus expansion slots.
An <u>actual</u> OS X virus?
Biggest rumor so far.
@C1. Just going back in time…Openmoko! Moko is the name of a chimp in an African dialect. Makes you laugh doesn’t it?
If you locked a chimp in a room with a typewriter it would eventually craft out code exceed the finest code ever written AaaaaHa! Ha! Ha! Haaa!!!!!
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Seriously though, roughly drafted is a dangerous site if you have limited time.
Hope Mum appreciated your visit.
Golfers = Piledrivers!!!!!!!!!!:-)
Zune = Pile up!!!!!!!!!!:-)
On a different list:
• Zunes pre-loaded with porn. Oops. Never mind.
Apple were going to build a space rocket before they kicked S.J out! (true rumour)