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Brian Lam is an Ass - and the iPhone isn’t from Apple
applegazette.com — The iPhone is a VOIP phone made by Linksys. Cisco, their parent company, has owned the trademark since 1996. They will be announcing their product in a few hours. Brian Lam, of course, was aware of this when he made his post last week, stating that the iPhone would be announced on Monday.
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- streetstealth, on 10/12/2007, -0/+6Wow. I think we all may have learned a lesson today.
- themurph2099, on 10/12/2007, -1/+12Yeah, don't trust Gizmodo
- omgitscolin, on 10/12/2007, -0/+7That's what we call a "dick move."
- Yorn, on 10/12/2007, -5/+3If I remember right, the iPhone was mentioned on Slashdot years ago. Says a lot about the digg subscriber base, and is a classic example of why democractic "social news" sites like this are doomed to failure.
Digg was done years ago and failed already, it was called Kuro5hin.org.
Don't get me wrong, I've used digg for a while and loved it, but the signal to noise ratio in just the last month has gotten to be so ridiculous I can't respect it anymore. We already know that half of the top stories are submitted by the same 20 people, that those people are asked (probably daily) to submit stories either on the behalf of some spam company or for actual money, what do we *not* know yet?
Digg: Downhill since version 3.0
- charlesnorbert, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3Digging the first part of the title. We already know the second part. Brian, you are going to make the front page again. Not quite the same thing this time is it?
- time2go, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4I love social backlash.
- Canadiens1160, on 10/12/2007, -5/+3So everyone got duped, and now they're annoyed they didn't have the foresight to ignore an internet rumor?
- norbiu, on 10/12/2007, -4/+2Tough crowd.
- daveodroid, on 10/12/2007, -1/+3Brian Lam didn't technically mislead or deceive us, but that doesn't mean he isn't technically a prick.
As other have said elsewhere on Digg, he staked his reputation on this (and by extension, Gizmodo's), and as far as I'm concerned, right now that rep is in the mud. It's not like we're short of other sources for tech news. I for one will be going elsewhere.- node3, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2"Brian Lam didn't technically mislead or deceive us, but that doesn't mean he isn't technically a prick."
Yes, he did. He knew full well people would think he was referring to the rumored Apple iPhone.
- node3, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2"Brian Lam didn't technically mislead or deceive us, but that doesn't mean he isn't technically a prick."
- sancho320, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2I thought the whole thing was pretty funny. Did you really believe that Apple would release a product of this caliber less than a week before Christmas? They have never done that before, why would they start now with a brand new product?
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