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- battletops, on 10/10/2007, -8/+105It was disguised as a Zune...
http://hideapod.com/ - jbess, on 10/10/2007, -0/+60"something that looked like something else"
what a description. - HCJfilms, on 10/10/2007, -4/+62No pics? LAME.
- chewbaccapits, on 10/10/2007, -3/+51This story is worthless without pictures.
- trghpy, on 10/10/2007, -5/+33Holy *****. True relevance of the post...
ATT actually tested something.
Wish they'd care about other services they sell as much as they cared about iPhone. - justinp, on 10/10/2007, -14/+41Seriously? Who cares.
- KnockoutNerd, on 10/10/2007, -1/+23When people like you point out the obvious it ruins the whole thing. -_-
- mightycbu, on 10/10/2007, -1/+17but what's the point? seeing a Zune in the wild was almost as rare as seeing an iPhone :P
- kupa, on 10/10/2007, -1/+14I can't figure out if your being sarcastic or not, because if you are, then your comment is just awesome, but if you are being serious... Heh.
- TheAcidQueen, on 10/10/2007, -5/+17Pics or it didn't happen.
- batmant, on 10/10/2007, -2/+12probably just packaged it in something like looked like an iPhone with full signal
- Chairboy, on 10/10/2007, -0/+8They obviously disguised it as a battery powered electric shaver. That way nobody would question why they were walking around rubbing it on their face. The second thing to do, of course, would be to disguise the testers as hobos so nobody would think twice about them apparently talking to themselves.
- fkr3, on 10/10/2007, -3/+10A PC.
- MavRevMatt, on 10/10/2007, -0/+7"something that looked like something else"
Well, we can all see how much AT&T knows. - delta013, on 10/10/2007, -0/+6The cloaking device was probably designed by AT&T's friends at the NSA.
- olympian41, on 10/10/2007, -0/+6Woah. Slow news day or what
- h2oDomination, on 10/10/2007, -6/+11Ah, but nobody CARES about the Zune. :P
- drakino, on 10/10/2007, -0/+4Apple's paranoia seems to be working well for them. And yes, while it might "only" be consumer electronics, Apple is being paranoid for very good reasons. A few I can think of:
1. By being secretive up until their announcement, Apple ensures they control the marketing message, and not someone else. Jobs even admitted the reason they showed the iPhone in January was so that they could announce it, and not the FCC when it was being certified.
2. Competitors have less time to try and copy what Apple does if they can keep something secret right up till it ships. That way the first iPod nano someone comes across is actually a real Apple iPod nano and not some Chinese knockoff.
3. Better sales by not pre-announcing a newer product. Sure, many of us here on digg are likely to do a ton of research prior to buying a product, including checking when it is likely to be replaced but the general public likely won't go so deep. If a company pre-announces their next big replacement for an existing product loud enough, then the general consumer is likely to hear it and hold off on buying the existing product. Look for example how badly some car sales slump after a big car show with a newer version of the same model.
As for limiting product development to a small team, I can't really see anything wrong with that. More cooks in the kitchen doesn't always mean something better. Vista is a clusterf**k of "really obvious brain-fade things", and that had a massive, non secretive team working on it. So clearly openness and team size isn't the solution to fixing that problem.
Apple is a business, and businesses primary goal is to make money. Apple's practices may seem strange compared to other companies in the same field, but it's working well for them. They were a big deal when they started as the industry was new. Then they went through 15 or so years of noone caring. When Jobs came back, he turned the company around, to, well, the point where we are sitting here discussing their newest product, instead of saying "Remember when Apple finally when under?" - DoTheFandango, on 10/10/2007, -1/+5That's because it's not an iPhone.
- Earlofnecromium, on 10/10/2007, -2/+6Boring.
- themouth, on 10/10/2007, -3/+6After I bought my iphone and was staring at my now useless Verizon vx6700 pocketPC, I realized that if I hollowed out the pocketPC I could have used it for an iphone case. Chances are apple engineers probably had the same idea. If you disguised it as another phone no one would even notice anything out of the ordinary. Very clever.
Also, anyone wanna buy a used VX6700? ;) - daGUY, on 10/10/2007, -0/+2Interesting, but they can't even tell us NOW what the disguise was? Maybe because they're going to use it again to test the next revision?
- cusoman, on 10/10/2007, -0/+2Boy Cliff, you're really reaching these days for quality apple stories (since that's all you ever submit). Maybe it's time to find a new hobby... just a suggestion.
- Dolomite, on 10/10/2007, -1/+3lol, disguise it as a Zune so it can blend in with the other 3 Zunes in the world.
- EXIDY, on 10/10/2007, -2/+4Are you one of the two that you know?
How's that squirting thing working out?? - ismith, on 10/10/2007, -0/+2pics or it was just a bunch of nerds claiming this so they can brag that their sidekick was actually an iPhone in disguise
- digitalelite, on 10/10/2007, -1/+3Why would you not want to use AT&T. There is a reason APPLE signed with them.... because they are the best. ***** anyone who does not like AT&T.
- motheroats, on 10/10/2007, -5/+6they tested to see how ***** slow it really is to have edge and not 3g
- capecodcarl, on 10/10/2007, -1/+2I thought I was being obvious sarcastic, but I've either angered the Apple drones for daring to suggest there might be a phone (or dozens of phones actually) out there with superior features for less cost, or I've angered the people sick of corporate shills towing the Apple party line hyping this stupid thing. Apple could've slapped an Apple logo on a vintage 1989 analog bag phone and called it the iPhone and I guarantee you they would've sold at least 100,000 of them. People would have been ranting and raving about the superior range and battery life of their 15 pound analog bag phone with built-in cassette player.
- dagamer34, on 10/10/2007, -1/+2Picture or it never happened.
- oofgeg, on 10/10/2007, -0/+1The description of the article gives me all the info I need. I need not wade through a wordy article of a guy who can use a phone.
- jawbreaker4fs, on 10/10/2007, -0/+1EDGE on the iPhone is pretty good. It's a lot faster than I would have expected. I suspect the only people who are complaining that the iPhone doesn't have 3G are those who have never used the device. All the other iPhone users I've talked to haven't had any problem with it.
...also I suspect the complainers have a little bit of iPhone envy. - imontoya, on 10/10/2007, -0/+1I'm waiting for "Trivial Pursuit: The iPhone Edition" to hit the shelves any time now. Hasbro/Parker Brothers must be mining the net ferociously.
- mpeters13, on 10/10/2007, -0/+1Fortunately, the editor can be reached via the number at the end of the article [for those who actually got that far...] for verbal bludgeoning for this rather worthless article.
- PeteyPablo, on 10/10/2007, -2/+3I bet they made them look like PSPs
- SteveMax, on 10/10/2007, -1/+2What's an iPhone?
- SkippyDoorknob, on 10/10/2007, -0/+1It was disguised as the old Sports Illustrated football phone.
- ehelbush, on 10/10/2007, -0/+1It amazes me the stuff that ppl digg
- aserer511, on 10/10/2007, -0/+1dick burns...
- superkendall, on 10/10/2007, -2/+3And found it wasn't a problem, so then they released it.
- Rice, on 10/10/2007, -0/+1"Richard Burns loved to tinker in the backyard"... heh.
- SkippyDoorknob, on 10/10/2007, -0/+1Transformers - iPhones in disguise!
- mindless2, on 10/10/2007, -0/+1I bet the used an invisibility cloak.
Good thing they disguised it though, otherwise they might have been killed for it. - shawnz, on 10/10/2007, -2/+3why the hell would you buy an iPhone to replace a PocketPC? that's like buying a mac to replace a....
*****, never mind. - kethraal, on 10/10/2007, -1/+2"Steve Jobs... live out your boyhood secret-agent fantasy some other way.. not using Apple Inc as your personal play-thing."
Really? Last I checked, Apple Inc. WAS his personal play-thing, which he personally created.
What company do you own? - subtle, on 10/10/2007, -1/+1So bored was the reader that he didn't even follow the link. And when diggers hit the comment section to make fun of the submitter, the article and Apple itself, 10 bucks says they used a contraption to communicate via the Internet tubes so nobody would know it was their testes they were holding, hoping everyone would think they were doing "something else."
- zoom1928, on 10/10/2007, -2/+2I love how AT&T proves they don't give a damn about their customers:
"[WRT discussion of major problems with AT&T] it hasn't been followed up by complaints from actual users."
So because you ignore the customers you consider that there are no problems. Sounds just like Verizon. Their service has been down where I work for over two years. Their tower lost power due to construction near it, and Verizon hasn't bothered to fix it in over two years. It wasn't their fault it quit, but they haven't bothered to fix it. The local VP with Verizon played the same game as the AT&T guy in the article. He claimed that because my complaint was the only one that made it to his desk that there was no problem. They don't care and don't try. If there is ever a cellphone company that actually attempts to provide working service, they'll be very successful. - MauiMac, on 10/10/2007, -1/+1Obviously you... You clicked the link to this page after you read the title...
- nondescrypt, on 10/10/2007, -4/+4FYI - you can no longer insult Microsoft on Digg, they pay all the bills around here now, or haven't you heard?? There is now a Microsoft team that will automatically bury your comments if they are deemed to be putting Microsoft in a bad light as per our recent advertising advertising. Never heard of it?? well, it's not like it made the first (or second) pages. but, regardless, Thanks for your co-operation.
- mattmollysdad, on 10/10/2007, -1/+1dixie cups and string
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