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The Top 10 Apple rumors (that never came true)
Monday, May 14, 2007 - 02:26 PM EST

Apple Store"With Apple rumors getting spread around more than ever (and regular coverage from national news media), it’s important to remember that many (most?) tend to be either completely untrue or so premature they never come true. So here’s a look back at 10 of the worst offenders," Eddie Hargreaves writes for The Apple Blog.

Hargreaves' 10 Biggest Apple Rumors (that never came true)

1. Disney to buy Apple/Apple to buy Disney
2. Apple Plasma TVs
3. iPods pre-loaded with music
4. Apple to buy record label Universal Music Group
5. Justin Long no longer doing Mac ads
6. Apple PDA
7. Tablet Mac
8. iHome Media Center/DVR
9. $100 Striped, Mini iPods
10. Piles

Full article with descriptions and history for each of the 10 rumors above here.

MacDailyNews Take: What about "Home on iPod?" Oh, right, that's coming in Leopard. wink

Or how about the mythical 3GHz G5 or the G5 PowerBook?

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May 14, 07 - 01:32 pm Comment from: peach picker

I wonder if he is related to Alice in Wonderland - Alice Hargreaves?

May 14, 07 - 01:33 pm Comment from: Jeff

G5 Powerbook

May 14, 07 - 01:33 pm Comment from: Macaday

I wouldn't bet against a tablet Mac...

May 14, 07 - 01:35 pm Comment from: TowerTone

Piles did come true. My wife has some beauties after giving birth to our first kid.

May 14, 07 - 01:36 pm Comment from: balmer

I get piles. :-(

we thought of them first!

May 14, 07 - 01:36 pm Comment from: Jeff

Beatles catalog on iTunes

May 14, 07 - 01:38 pm Comment from: Jonahan

3. iPods pre-loaded with music
What about the U2 iPods/Harry Potter iPods... or didn't they come "preloaded" but downloadable after purchase?

May 14, 07 - 01:41 pm Comment from: GranitW

Well for the PDA what about the touchscreen Newtons, and as a side note I think stripped is mispelled, "9. $100 Striped, Mini iPods"

May 14, 07 - 01:41 pm Comment from: Beryllium

@balmer

What??! You're not claiming a patent on them?

May 14, 07 - 01:49 pm Comment from: Fester Balmer

I've got piles of piles

May 14, 07 - 01:49 pm Comment from: GranitW

Sorry about my last comment, the article was talking about a PDA after Newton, although for small business the iPhone could work...

May 14, 07 - 01:50 pm Comment from: AshNazg

Some of that will come true... it just hasn't, yet. But it will. Mark my words! smile

MW: "Couldn't" ... so, maybe not. Bummer. :(

May 14, 07 - 01:51 pm Comment from: MikeR

What about the "death knell?" Apple was supposed to go out of business umpteen times in the past few years.

May 14, 07 - 02:04 pm Comment from: ping

What about the "death knell?" Apple was supposed to go out of business umpteen times in the past few years.

Damn! I almost forgot! wink

Even our beloved "beleaguered" seems to have packed up and moved to, er, greener pastures...! cool smirk

May 14, 07 - 02:05 pm Comment from: Twisted Mac Freak

This just in:
Isn't Justin Long also a porno star?

May 14, 07 - 02:09 pm Comment from: No Squirt For You

The Apple flying car.

May 14, 07 - 02:10 pm Comment from: ken1w

> Tablet Mac

Interestingly, there is only one "Mac" rumor on the list. How did Justin Long make the list? The folks who thought up this list obviously do not have a long-term memory.

May 14, 07 - 02:16 pm Comment from: Thorin

What about asteroid?

May 14, 07 - 02:17 pm Comment from: No Squirt For You

More NuBus expansion slots.

May 14, 07 - 02:21 pm Comment from: No Squirt For You

An actual OS X virus?

Biggest rumor so far.

May 14, 07 - 02:22 pm Comment from: Crabapple

@C1. Just going back in time...Openmoko! Moko is the name of a chimp in an African dialect. Makes you laugh doesn't it?

If you locked a chimp in a room with a typewriter it would eventually craft out code exceed the finest code ever written AaaaaHa! Ha! Ha! Haaa!!!!! grin

Seriously though, roughly drafted is a dangerous site if you have limited time.

Hope Mum appreciated your visit.

May 14, 07 - 02:25 pm Comment from: Crabapple

Golfers = Piledrivers!!!!!!!!!!:-)

May 14, 07 - 02:26 pm Comment from: Crabapple

Zune = Pile up!!!!!!!!!!:-)

May 14, 07 - 02:27 pm Comment from: Twisted Mac Freak

On a different list:
• Zunes pre-loaded with porn. Oops. Never mind.

May 14, 07 - 02:29 pm Comment from: Crabapple

Apple were going to build a space rocket before they kicked S.J out! (true rumour)

May 14, 07 - 02:38 pm Comment from: Twisted Mac Freak

An iPod adapter specially designed for 1974 Chrysler Imperials.

May 14, 07 - 02:40 pm Comment from: DogGone

1. Disney to buy Apple/Apple to buy Disney
Disney bought Pixar and put Jobs on the board - the influence of Apple will still be there.
2. Apple Plasma TVs
Not yet but you never can tell - probably LCD not plasma
3. iPods pre-loaded with music
As pointed out above it has happened is some way with the U2 pods
6. Apple PDA
It's pretty obvious that the iPhone is going to evolve into something even better than a PDA. It already can do a lot of basic PDA functions
7. Tablet Mac
Probably will - iPhone rumors have been around for at least 2 years and Apple were developing it for 2.5 years.
8. iHome Media Center/DVR
Can anyone say AppleTV? Not quite a DVR yet but it will probably happen at some point. The USB port can act as a conduit for signal input.
9. $100 Striped, Mini iPods
Shuffle, nanos?
10. Piles
Leopard anyone? We still don't know the full feature set. Piles may be there in some form or other.

My point is that the rumor mill may have got a sniff of something being cooked up at Apple and that development turned into something similar in many cases.

May 14, 07 - 02:42 pm Comment from: M@c

I would like Apple to make automobile navigation/entertainment systems. The current offerings need that Apple intuition!

May 14, 07 - 02:47 pm Comment from: Irish Dude

I really wouldn't bet against a few of them still happening. iPhone will obviously develop way more functionality (PDA), eh Apple TV will add more aswell. If Apple TV takes off well then Tvs would be a fairly logical step for Apple (not so sure about Plasma though, I doubt they would go for them).

May 14, 07 - 02:48 pm Comment from: Irish Dude

Whoops, I hadn't read the posts. DogGone, your list is more complete than mine, fair play.

May 14, 07 - 02:48 pm Comment from: apple rumor

Steve Jobs is man behind Steve Jobs Blog

May 14, 07 - 03:08 pm Comment from: harrison

can someone expalin what piles is? I must have missed that one

May 14, 07 - 03:14 pm Comment from: An Optimist

The #1 all-time bogus rumor is - Apple is dying and going out of business - as told by Michael Dell and others.

May 14, 07 - 03:14 pm Comment from: coolfactor

I'll take a "striped" iPod any way.

May 14, 07 - 03:16 pm Comment from: Walk away Bill just walk away

Tablet?
There is a tablet Not made directly from . It's a converted Macbook But it is a tablet and it runs OSX. Axiotron Modbook. Go to Other World Computing It's there.

May 14, 07 - 03:16 pm Comment from: maczealot

Only ten? Heck, you can read at least two rumors a day here at MDN.

May 14, 07 - 03:27 pm Comment from: DogGone

What I find encouraging is that the rumor mill is speeding up again. Whilst most rumors are usually off base, the increasing intensity suggests that new gadgets are on the way.

May 14, 07 - 03:49 pm Comment from: LordRobin

They forgot a biggie, at least as far as the rumor-following community is concerned.

Who can forget the infamous "Motorola G5" rumors from 2001? That was the rumor that brought down a rumor site. MacOSRumors was never the same after it had to admit, after months of "insider reports", that the whole thing was a load of hooie.

May 14, 07 - 04:16 pm Comment from: Ray

1. Disney to buy Apple/Apple to buy Disney - Uh no. This was mindless speculation from Cramer and those other arm-chair stock idiots.

2. Apple Plasma TVs - Isn't the 30" monitor connected to AppleTV and a satellite just that?

3. iPods pre-loaded with music - Uh no....Anything worth putting on there won't sell to the "Free Paris" crowd.

4. Apple to buy record label Universal Music Group - Cramer and his band of idiotas agin...

5. Justin Long no longer doing Mac ads - I am so happy with this one. It shows how MDN and other rumor sites jump the gun all the time. They had Justin on a sky rocketing career with babes, booze, and drugs all within 48 hours of this rumor.

6. Apple PDA - This is a personal "I wish" of mine. Some moron is probably gonna say that the iPhone is this....The person that says that never owned a Newton. It was really cool. And a 10 year old Newton is more PDA than the 2007 iPhone will ever be.

7. Tablet Mac - See 6

8. iHome Media Center/DVR - Huh? Apple TV and mac-mini...it's done

9. $100 Striped, Mini iPods - Shuffle + Sharpie?

10. Piles - N/C

Just my $0.02

May 14, 07 - 04:51 pm Comment from: Martin

the iPhone IS a pda, and one day there will be a tablet mac.

May 14, 07 - 05:16 pm Comment from: more rumors

11. Mac OS on generic PC's.

12. Apple's imminent failure (this has been rumored since at least 1980).

13. Mac clones to return.

14. Apple to buy... (insert Disney, Dell, Gateway, Compaq, IBM, Apple Records, etc).

15. Apple to fab their own processors.

16. Apple Office.

17. HyperCard X.

May 14, 07 - 05:49 pm Comment from: @harrison

Harrison, go over to Youtube.com and do a search for piles, and you should get a computer related video that deals with piles.

May 14, 07 - 06:19 pm Comment from: toby

The last time they did a list like this they had the iPhone on the list...I feel that's the new Mac Tablet.


They will come out with a Mac tablet.

May 14, 07 - 06:28 pm Comment from: The Other Steve

The BIGGEST rumor to never come true.

***The iPod Killer***

May 14, 07 - 06:43 pm Comment from: No Squirt For You

"The BIGGEST rumor to never come true.

***The iPod Killer***"

Not true. Come June.

May 14, 07 - 06:44 pm Comment from: Woody

@ Harrison: Here's piles: http://www.macrumors.com/2003/04/13/panther-feature-piles/

May 14, 07 - 11:37 pm Comment from: BC Kelly

Have to agree with DogGone and several others above

The iPhone IS the Tablet/PDA

But it's disguised as a wide-screen video iPod, a Phone, and a breakthrough Internet Communication Device

Thank You
BC Kelly
Tallahassee Fla

May 15, 07 - 01:34 am Comment from: mugwump

Here's an obscure one:

Mac Raycer. (google it)

It was going to be some supercharged Powermac.

May 15, 07 - 04:06 am Comment from: John Keogh

or Jack Hargreaves, who presented "Out of Town" on British television. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jack_Hargreaves

May 15, 07 - 09:43 am Comment from: Rudge

I waited for months for the G5 PowerBook to come out. I finally gave up and bought the 1GHz TiBook... and then a month later, Apple came out with the AluBook. Oh well, I'm still very happy with my TiBook. grin

May 15, 07 - 10:56 am Comment from: Buster

@Harrison

Piles can either be Apples document pile or it can be what irritates that A-hole Ballmer after he has a Zune in the morning.

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