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Huh. Well, the iPod went with Product(RED), so I guess they have some sort of relationship.

Ugh I'm sick of bono! He's everywhere nowadays and now he's on our iPhones?!?!?!

The microphone is pointing the other way in the artist icon.

At a U2 concert in Glasgow, Bono asked the audience for some quiet.
Then he started to slowly clap his hands. The audience gradually joined in, the silence punctuated only by thousands of steady, rhythmically clapping hands. Then he called for quiet again.

Holding the audience in total silence, he said into the microphone "Every time I clap my hands, a child in Africa dies."

A lone voice from near the front pierced the silence: "Well, stop ***** clapping then!"

Must be a mixup. He was probably slated for the 'Tools' icon.

Wow they really are grabbing at anything about the iphone to make a story out of it.
***** buried

Bono? Ew.

This BARELY looks like him. It could literally be one of hundreds of artists that stand in that position - in front of a microphone. Buried as inaccurate.

P.S. Bono is a *****.

I don't have anything against Bono, and he is a nice guy, but I do have to admit that he does seem to be all over the place.

Though that "Artist" icon is rather generic and would look like any of the millions of singers in the world if they just stood in that position too.

Anyone else think this is a huge stretch? The microphones are facing opposite directions, the singers are at different angles...

this is because he and jobs are the same person

Who? Who cares?

It sort of looks like Big Bird to me...

Apple loves U2, pretty soon there will be a Special Edition Apple iPhone U2 phone.....phone.

Yeah! No one else has ever used a microphone!

I don't think it was meant to specifically be Bono, even if they used that image as a reference. How else would they have illustrated a guy singing into a microphone? Buried as lame, I agree with disoriented.

This is news?

big stretch. mics angled differently and the image could be just about anyone

Put this story in a shallow grave where it belongs..

Color me surprised.

I thought everyone knew this when the iPhone was first shown...

No this is not news, like everything else on digg lately. I can see the similarity though. Wait, hang on, my eyes were closed. This should be buried for it's insanity

Bono can't do anything when he's frozen in carbonite like that.

This icon also seriously looks like Homer J.
http://www.kirida.com/uploaded_images/homer-drool-798861.gif

jesus, digg is really going down the pan if this sort of dross is hitting the front page...

Sorry to say since he is with Universal, he might not be Steve's "tiny dancer" anymore.

It's not a big deal though.. it's there because that icon suits better.. That;s it...

LAME!

Yes, it is definitely him... no other singer in the world could have ever been in that pose. The nose, chin, eyebrows seal the deal.

At least it's not Sonny Bono.

Oh come on. Like Bono is the only musical artist in history that's stood in front of a microphone? Buried as inaccurate.

i noticed it the day i got mine, but really i have to wonder

who ***** gives a *****?

the bono clapping anecdote is, of course, false. gotta love urban legends... http://www.snopes.com/music/artists/bono.asp

you can digg me down now.

god I'm suck of Bono

Is this rel event information? seriously, are we so starved for news that we need to know who the ***** model was for an icon? If that is the case, let me tell you all about this pimple on my ass...

nope. i don't think it's him

What's the difference between the Pope and Bono?
The Pope doesn't walk round Dublin thinking he's a rock star.

The day him and Geldof start donating vast quantities of wealth to African countries and stop eating in top London restaurant and the rest of the whole pompous jerk act is the day I pay attention to what they have to say. I cannot see why people like him - he says a few words about people in Africa dying and then eats an overpriced food in top restaurants.

Shut up, do your charity work and go home. You don't need the whole world to know what you're doing to be able to do it.

bono will be crushed by his own ego. stop worshiping.

Bono has always been an advocate for Apple, so I'm not surprised. Jobs had him in a videochat in the iTunes launch keynote. And he's also done many other things for Apple. And don't forget that the album cover for "How to Dismantle and Atomic Bomb" was featured in most of the iPhone pictures.