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- RealityCheque, on 10/12/2007, -7/+91"Apple had to keep secrets from multiple companees"
"Companees"? Are you ***** kidding me?
Editing, has CNN heard of it? - thisistrinh, on 10/12/2007, -0/+81impressive.. 30 months, but the possibility of getting your ass fired for leaking company secrets would also keep my mouth shut!
- chrisgeleven, on 10/12/2007, -1/+69Quite amazing that even with every blog and news organization trying to find out about this phone that for the most part, the details weren't leaked.
Most of the "leaks" were of stuff that were common sense. In fact, I doubt most of the "leaks" were really leaks, just educated guesses and common sense.
I do know two things:
1) Cell phones in the next year or so are going to change big time. I bet every cell phone manufacturer was up all night last night trying to figure out how to beat this beast. This is for the good of us all.
2) Once it is cheaper and hopefully with Verizon, I will get it. - inactive, on 10/12/2007, -0/+34Looks like Kevin Rose's insider was just blowing smoke up his ass.
owned - alex189a, on 10/12/2007, -0/+26Thank you for the smart post, particularly your first point. It is good for us all. That is the single most significant thing about the iPhone- it forces the rest of the industry and the entire tech world as a whole to continue to put an emphasis on building things that are better and better designed (and if you think I'm talking about the black and chrome scheme you're lost).
Too many people still have blinders on about the importance of the user experience over the product's technical specs. - inactive, on 10/12/2007, -6/+27You sir, are a *****.
- jakebarnes, on 10/12/2007, -0/+16Wow... just not funny at all. I mean, you actually managed negative funny. The next joke I hear will have to first compensate for your comment, and whatever is left of that joke will be all that I laugh at. Your joke has detracted from the over all funny that exists in the world. Think about it, because of your comment, there is less funny in existence than there was before your comment.
- joebooty, on 10/12/2007, -8/+23This article is genuinely absurd. There have been a steady stream of stories on digg, slashdot and various other techie sites for months. In October or November I clicked a link to a copy of an apple patent for a multifunctional handheld touchscreen interface which pretty much detailed exactly what the iphone was and how it would work.
Do not get me wrong the device looks awesome but the notion that this was kept secret at all is just a joke. - Barr08, on 10/12/2007, -0/+14Those could have all been guessed or speculated upon by the thousands of geeks out there. Coincidence IMO.
- Dedpoet, on 10/12/2007, -4/+15@RealityCheque
" "Companees"? Are you ***** kidding me? "
Apparently, they are not kidding you. Also from the article, "Cingular worked with Apple software developer on breakthrough features like visual voicemail - the ability to see a list of voicemail messages in a list and choose to listen to them in any order..."
Ah yes, nice to have those lists in list format. They work best that way. And "worked with Apple software developer"? What? - djSyndrome, on 10/12/2007, -0/+9FTA:
"Many of the country's top technology analysts and journalists flocked to the Las Vegas airport Monday night, on the first day of CES, to be able to see Jobs reveal his secrets here Tuesday morning."
Uh, what? - IamBobX, on 10/12/2007, -2/+9"Hey I have a great idea! I'll make up a bunch of 'rumors' about the Iphone while drinking beer, cuase I'm so 1337! If they are true I'll show everyone how hardcore I am! If they are false, I'll tell everyone how I was helping Steve Jobs by spreading false rumors!"
lol - khag7, on 10/12/2007, -1/+8its the apple category. filter that =)
- Angostura, on 10/12/2007, -0/+7Poor writing, indeed. But I think the author is trying to say that lots of people were flying out of CES on Monday night to get to Mac Expo the next morning.
- jaycliche, on 10/12/2007, -0/+6The first "leak" that I saw was the patent filing a few months ago. I think it would be hard to avoid that.
- Geekazoid, on 10/12/2007, -2/+8They had to announce it now, because as soon as the FCC paperwork was filed, everyone would know. that is why they announced it 6 months before it would be "available". I still think that they should release an ipod with the same features, just not the phone software. Wouldn't that get around the FCC approval for the cell phone capabilities? maybe a patch later on would just add it in.
- r2builder, on 10/12/2007, -0/+6You tell the best stories.
- alex189a, on 10/12/2007, -2/+7@jaycliche
Right on. Sony vs. Nintendo. Solid, current example. - bSimms, on 10/12/2007, -0/+5There was a much larger amount of inaccurate "leaks" than there were accurate ones... So I would assume most "leaks" are indeed just guesses. It's not that hard to think of what a phone from apple would look like.
- jaycliche, on 10/12/2007, -1/+6"Because I really need a pocket PC that runs BSD, comes with a contractual obligation and costs more than my car.
Plus, once it is obsolete, you get to throw it away. Just like a Macintosh."
I suggest you move to a remote technologically free commune to avoid things becoming obsolete. - inactive, on 10/12/2007, -1/+6I just almost literally pissed myself laughing at your response to my comment. Well done sir! That's one of the funniest things I've read all day. Thank you.:)
- Quix, on 10/12/2007, -4/+8"Cell phones in the next year or so are going to change big time."
I don't know about that. Just because competitors see Apple finally do it right, doesn't mean they "get it." The iPod is 5 years old and still doesn't have any serious competition in the usability department. Cell phones have sucked for 15+ years. The usual suspects aren't going to be motivated to change that status quo right away.
Corporate cultures are slow-moving beasts, and while the iPhone may be a wakeup call, these companies aren't going to spring into action in response. The Motorolas/Palms/Sonys of the world will pooh-pooh the iPhone until it becomes a major market force. At which point, of course, it will be too late to do anything.
Except for Microsoft, of course. They're probably hard at work on their iPhone knockoff (ZunePhone) as we speak. - almalax19, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4Yes it is called the iPhone.
- Barr08, on 10/12/2007, -2/+6For a school project last semester, I designed the iPop: hybrid iPod and toaster.
I got an A. - steviepunk, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4Although people know there was an iPhone coming in some form or another, it seems that people were pretty uncertain about the details (prior to new iPods there seems to be a lot more accurate info doing the rounds). So I think the article is referring to the secrecy over the specific features rather than keep secret the fact that an iPhone was in development.
However, I do notice that features that have appeared on the phone are features that many people seemed to think would be coming on a new Video iPod, such as the large screen and the touch sensitive controls
BTW, can't believe that iPod and iPhone are not valid words in the Digg spell checker! - anotherjeff, on 10/12/2007, -1/+530 months. thats a long time. Apple's pretty good at keep secrets. If it were microsoft, the secret would have been out 28 months ago.
I wonder what Apple is planning right now for 30 months from now. - inactive, on 10/12/2007, -1/+5Yes but other people claimed unlocked devices, CDMA compatibility, etc. Just because they had that info doesn't mean it was leaked. And if it was leaked, it was leaked right along side faulty information to cause a swirl of conflicting information.
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -3/+7http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Japanese_mobile_phone_culture
even your beloved Apple still has some catching up to do. Japanese and Korean phones are the real trendsetters. - inactive, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4Must be a ***** car.
- KSUdesigner, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3It costs more than your car? Christ, you need to go buy yourself a better car dude!
- monkeyrun, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3I believe he meant flock to LV airport to catch a flight to SF.
- purdo, on 10/12/2007, -2/+5It wasn't really a secret was it?? As for the last year at least, at every Apple event there was talk of the iPhone.
A secret would be like apple announcing yesterday that they was going to release the Apple Toaster, no one would have heard about it and it would have been a true secret.
What there going to put into Leopard is a real secret as no one knows! - IamBobX, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3I want pictures of this Ipop!
- digga, on 10/12/2007, -2/+5Sure - the rumor mills nailed the specs, didn't they? *rolls eyes*
- jaycliche, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3"Too many people still have blinders on about the importance of the user experience over the product's technical specs."
I think that some of the falling giants have been putting specs above user experience...and it is finally starting to show.
I think for most, form over function (not to exclude function) is what keeps the laymen buying tech products. - jaycliche, on 10/12/2007, -1/+4I agree @chris. I think that all media will be fundamentally different after this year.
- Bamborzled, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2They need FCC approval, idiot.
- jaycliche, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2@junkmail02
"So wheres the 9/11 spammers comment? not here yet...?"
"I guess you are now the unspam spammer."
"and now you are now the spammer"
Back at you! Now you are in the club. No wonder there is so much spam.
;) - inactive, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2@Geckolimit
You can pull vids off of the apple page.
Good for you. - intekra, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2@shrimpdesign
I'd assume with ActiveSync. That is the one common thing about many current smartphones. They run windows mobile. Maybe with support from Microsoft they would be able to come up with something. I would be surprised though, because I currently use a pocket pc for work, and a smart phone for personal use. Out of all phones I've had, I've had the most issues with Windows Mobile devices... Thay just plain don't work reliably all the time.
That being said, I don't think anything is going to have much of a shot at beating the iPhone. It's just another product from Apple that was well designed, well thought out, and VERY well executed.
I can't wait to get mine in June... - uownedge, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2Yes, I too am hoping for even a slight price drop, as well as support for other carriers. It looks like a killer device, everything I'd want in a PDA/Phone/Portable media device.
This will definitely push other makers to push out some better devices, and I wouldn't be surprised if the next version adds a whole slew of new features (which makes me wonder if I should wait for the second version before considering a purchase). - inactive, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1This is nothing.
I have a company that is in the process of making a phone that not only plays songs, it makes coffee, pays the bills, drives the kids to work all at the same time it's negotiating peace treaties with nearby countries.
iPhone? Phleeeze. - HappyScrappy, on 10/12/2007, -1/+2I can hardly think of an Apple project recently that leaked more. What a stupid article.
- Aleks, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1apetrie: This is about Microsoft controlling the monopoly in the smartphone market by ripping off the 'innovation' by Apple/Yahoo/Google and who says they can't pull it off in 6 months!?
Jesus christ, I'm not being a Zealot... I'm all for other companies producing iPhone like devices - I just don't want Microsoft eliminating them. - lordwow, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1They Didn't
- shadyk8o, on 10/12/2007, -1/+2iPhone was a secret?!?! Then what have we been talking and gossiping about for the past year???!!!??? Yes, we didn't know the details but we all knew it was coming!!!
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -1/+2The article is horrible written. I seriously hope this is sarcasm.
- RyeBrye, on 10/12/2007, -4/+5Full details weren't leaked, but the leaks were accurate:
A pocket-sized device running OS X
A touch-screen widescreen video iPod
A phone exclusively partnered with Cingular
... etc.
Nobody hearing the leaks decided to put them all together into one device because that would seem so outlandish... but the rumors sites did have a lot of information about this phone. - Retuobak, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1What's the difference really? :/
Corporations are all the same in the same position.
I'd rather see Apple/Google/Yahoo compete with Microsoft, drops prices and pushes innovation. Nothing better than competition. -
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