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Well, that should just about kill iPhone sales until June...

Dec 06, 07 - 02:06 pm Comment from: ericdano

In other news, CNBC is reporting that the SUN will rise again tomorrow!

MAYBE the new MacPro will be out by then too.

Dec 06, 07 - 02:08 pm Comment from: MikeK

@Frank

That's probably the point of the report considering the CNBC/MSNBC/MS connection.

Dec 06, 07 - 02:10 pm Comment from: MikeK

Oh yeah, Don't forget NBC's grudge with Apple over iTunes...

Yeah the motivation has to be because of the whole NBC/MS thing because all news reporters love to be scooped by their competition on a story. Why would they try to report this first?

Grow up!

The real news here is: How will Steve Jobs financially apologize to "early adoptors" (i.e. iShow-offs) this time around?

Just my $0.02

All of this false media blitz is being paid for by both Microsoft and RIM to try to slow down iPhone sales.

Dec 06, 07 - 02:22 pm Comment from: ericdano

Ray, come on. iShowoffs? Steve Jobs and Apple did not need to do ANYTHING of the sort. I can't think of any company gave customers a $100 back for buying something two months earlier. Microsoft? No. Sony? No (did they ever do anything about the Rootkit?). Motorola? Nokia?

It's a tech thing. One would expect a new, better one out in a year. I'd be surprised if there was NOT a new one.

Dec 06, 07 - 02:26 pm Comment from: AAPL

zucker you suck

Frank,
not everybody in the world watches CNBC or reads tech blogs. ... in fact a very small minority of People would even notice this. Even though, I cannot see what is new here. Apple revamps its products annualy so it's only natural that the next iPhone comes out at this time. I tell you what. New ipods will be out before next Xmas 2008, so maybe you should'nt buy. Oh and a New Nokia phone will be out this afternoon, and another one tomorrow afternoon...

Ray, what do you mean exactly? Every time Apple releases a product, would you like Steve to say "oh, by the way, we've got talented engineers hard at work on making a better version of this"?

zucker you zuck

Dec 06, 07 - 02:38 pm Comment from: GmanMac

@Ray.
Apologize for what?
Not waiting a whole year to introduce the iPhone until battery tech caught up to 3 G chips?

Dec 06, 07 - 02:40 pm Comment from: Steve516

The new mac pro with a penryn processor is a given for mac world.

Dec 06, 07 - 02:48 pm Comment from: Ampar

Ray is probably still bitter about that whole Apple II to Mac transition. Aren't there kids on your lawn you can yell at?


"Just my $0.02"

You're overcharging.

Well, this collaborates what a Rogers representative told me about 2 months ago: The iPhone will come to Canada in July 2008.

Dec 06, 07 - 03:03 pm Comment from: Tired of Retards

golfer,

Collaborates?

You mean "corroborates," you big dummy.

(shakes head)

Let's also blame MDN for reporting this type of news.

Dec 06, 07 - 03:04 pm Comment from: Think

@ realnbk

Yep, the vast majority of users out there will never hear about this and keep buying iPhones every month right up till the new one comes out.

Dec 06, 07 - 03:06 pm Comment from: theloniousMac

Ah so what does everyone do with all these beta units we paid $600 for.

"Ah so what does everyone do with all these beta units we paid $600 for."

Sell them on eBay for $300 or more.

Dec 06, 07 - 03:14 pm Comment from: Ampar

"Ah so what does everyone do with all these beta units we paid $600 for."


Transform into Ultraman and save Tokyo.

@ Think:
Yea, and most of the "tech blog reading" minority eaither have an iPhone since June 29 or decided since January 2007 that they will wait for 3G. They do not need CNBC to tell them so.

@ Retard....

Thank you very much. Didn't you stop to think for a frigging second that maybe english is not my first language. I may be a retard, but you are ignorant.

Dec 06, 07 - 03:48 pm Comment from: Darkness

Ampar, you rock!

I personally keep my beta capsule under lock and key. Let's just say that we're still paying for the last time I used it. Global warming? Afraid that was me...

Oh yeah, I totally buy the conspiracy. Power interests have aligned to damage Apple this holiday season. Quick, someone call the Science Police!

Dec 06, 07 - 03:50 pm Comment from: Realist

Competition - you've got to love it!

Steve's seeing all the other goodies (including some pretty interesting phones) in Best Buy, Circuit City, Frys, etc, etc, and decided it's time to move the schedule up or risk having his stuff pushed to the back of the shelf.

Now, tell me again that the higher tech versions of everything with the Apple logo aren't ready to ship today and every day.

The strategy of getting us to buy everything multiple times is in jeopardy when competitors get their act together.

Dec 06, 07 - 03:51 pm Comment from: Ampar

Hayata!

Dec 06, 07 - 03:52 pm Comment from: Think

@ Golfer

Actually he would be inconsiderate.

As the old cartoon says, "Nobody knows I'm a dog on the Internet."

Everyone needs to "think" before posting. It's not called the World Wide Web for nothin.
I always thought it woould be a neat idea to have an icon next to your name with the county flag. That way you could see at a glance where that person is from or posting from. Then you could cut them some slack on proper english.

Dec 06, 07 - 03:53 pm Comment from: Realist

P.S. I must admit, though, that I don't understand Touch sales... hasn't everybody seen the phone and the Touch side by side and wonder why the Touch screen is so lousy? Today's buyers of Touch will be tomorrow's owners of 2 Touch's - one they can use as a music player and one they can use as a door stop.

any chance the existing iphones could be upgraded with firmware update and new batteries? It's not something I'm well versed on, but if not, so what? Most of the features that require bandwidth still work well with wifi, which is available most places I spend any time at, other than my car (depending on where it is, of course.) I doubt most people salivating for an iphone at the moment will be waiting till next June to get their hands on one. Just more FUD bullshiiit. Besides, at&t;doesn't have a lot of 3g coverage anyway.

I still don't get why 3G is so important - I am certainly not doing all of my web browsing on the iPhone and when I am out and about the EDGE is plenty fast enough. The only thing that 3G will help with is you can cruise the web and get email while on a phone call(Can't do that with EDGE)

Dec 06, 07 - 04:45 pm Comment from: Spark

I am an iShowOff. Proudly so since June 29th. I have no regrets. The iPhone is the best phone I've ever used. 3G?? Haven't really missed it so far, but I look forward to seeing what it add's in real world tests.

@Tired of Retards

I'm glad you registered you name so Golfer and Think can give you crap ever time you write something. It's a blog people, it's not English 101 and you won't be graded on your spelling.

When you spend time telling someone else how dumb they are, better hope you are freak'n perfect. I doubt it.

Dec 06, 07 - 05:26 pm Comment from: Ampar

" . . . and you won't be graded on your spelling."

No, but it will go on your permanent record. (I've always thought that was a funny and ridiculous threat from a teacher or principal.)

Dec 06, 07 - 05:36 pm Comment from: Jim - TIV

"No, but it will go on your permanent record" - well, I do have this incident on my record involving a russian circus bear, belly shots of JD, and Anna Nicole Smith on the Thunder Mountain ride at Disneyland that keeps coming up in interviews.

wait.. oh... you meant SCHOOL record. Ah...

my bad.

Dec 06, 07 - 05:40 pm Comment from: shiftOpt k

I feel like the mobile phone biz is a completely different beast than the computer biz and therefore early adopters of such items as the iPhone will feel the pain of their choice more harshly than if it were a computer… for the mere fact that a lot of technology doesn't tend to need to be updated as frequently as mobile phones do. (They mostly need to be updated to keep up with consumer demand… aka the desire for the 'latest/greatest' stuff).

But as far as this goes, it's not hindering me from getting an iPhone in January. My contract with verizon will be up on the 8th and I'll be getting an iPhone on that same day. Unless they announce a 3G iPhone at Macworld Expo to come out in March or earlier, I have no intentions of waiting another 6 mos for it. The 3G aspect just isn't enough of a selling point for me to justify waiting longer than I already have. They'll have to be much more new goodies than that to get me on board. I whole-heartedly agree with MDN on the "if you wait for the next best thing in tech, you'll never own any."

Guess we'll [probably] know the real answer to all these speculations in January, huh.

Dec 06, 07 - 06:41 pm Comment from: Ampar

Jim - TIV:

Dec 06, 07 - 07:45 pm Comment from: LorD1776

I refuse to buy an iPhone until Apple integrates 4G and a PEZ dispenser.

Dec 06, 07 - 07:50 pm Comment from: Shogun

@Shift...

I feel like the mobile phone biz is a completely different beast than the computer biz and therefore early adopters of such items as the iPhone will feel the pain of their choice more harshly than if it were a computer…

Are you high? This phone is insanely great. I've got phone, internet, video, maps, email... I don't expect to feel pain for a looooong time. In fact, "pain?" I don't think it's likely that I'll feel it at all.

Money well spent is money well spent.

" may be a retard, but you are ignorant."

learn English and give up on whatever unimportant language with no future that you also speak.

everything is going to be all right folks...take it easy

ya will this is all true, im getting the new iphone when it comes out in july, it's going to officially be anounced in june, it's going to be sick, glossy black, annd 3g! thinner then the previous iphone oh ya!!!!

Has Apple's Macbook pro come in the market for sale? - Mike