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Why does Apple.com have a page for iPhone among iLife ‘08 Guided Tours?
Friday, September 28, 2007 - 11:20 PM EDT

MacDailyNews reader "Aaron," While searching for a tutorial on emailing photos from his iPhone to his iWeb page, has uncovered a page on Apple.com that does not do what normal incorrect addresses (URLs) do.

Normally, incorrect URLs - for example: http://www.apple.com/ilife/guidedtour/emac.html - return the error message:

Looking for something? The page you tried was not found. You may have used an outdated link or may have typed the address (URL) incorrectly.

But, the URL http://www.apple.com/ilife/guidedtour/iphone.html returns a curious result: an active (placeholder) page, not the usual error message, with a missing QuickTime movie.

What it means is unknown, but it raises tantalizing questions, chief among them, as "Aaron" asks, "Why would iLife need a guided tour for the iPhone unless there is some integration coming?"

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Sep 28, 07 - 11:27 pm Comment from: Shimanchu

Things that make you go hmm....

Sep 28, 07 - 11:28 pm Comment from: Whatever

Why indeed?

Sep 28, 07 - 11:29 pm Comment from: Stever

Doesn't the iPhone integrate with iWeb photo libraries. You can send a picture taken with your iPhone and upload it directly to you iWeb photo library

Sep 28, 07 - 11:38 pm Comment from: Jonahan

Yes you can send to web gallery via iPhone I'm guess that's what this movie is going to show.

Sep 28, 07 - 11:38 pm Comment from: Jonahan

Guessing too raspberry

Sep 28, 07 - 11:39 pm Comment from: anti-creative cretin

Once when looking into a mirror I saw a woman standing next to me who wasn't there ...and a man with a pair of fine scissors who wasn't me. She said something to me that didn't make sense ..and I didn't even seem surprised. I don't know if I was just a placeholder for someone else ...or had crashed someone elses imagination ...but I'm glad I finally found a reason to tell someone.

Sep 28, 07 - 11:47 pm Comment from: Willie G

Actually, the iPhone integrates with .Mac web Galleries, which is not a function of iWeb, but rather an extension of both iPhoto, and iMovie. Let's also not forget that the hub of the iPhone is iTunes, which is also a component of iLife. So, really we have integration with 3 of the 6 iLife apps.

Having said that, there already are ample videos about the aforementioned integrations, so one is left by this with the impression that there are some new tricks up iPhone's sleeve coming up soon.

Sep 29, 07 - 12:06 am Comment from: Hmmm...

Where shall we start?

There are working links for:

/ilife/guidedtour/small.html

/ilife/guidedtour/medium.html

/ilife/guidedtour/large.html

Odds are Apple had intended to make a page specially formatted for the iphone - /ilife/guidedtour/iphone.html

Ohhhh wait a minute. Yep. Sure enough. If I navigate to apple.com/ilife on my iPhone and then click the guided tour button, I get no options for small, medium, large or downloads... I go straight to ilife/guidedtour/iphone.html and the option to start a movie is shown...

A little commonsense would have made this obvious. Apple is quite smart about sending you to an optimum page for your experience.

Sep 29, 07 - 12:14 am Comment from: RC

Straw grasping??

Sep 29, 07 - 12:16 am Comment from: standardmess

@Hmm:

Good sleuthing!

Sep 29, 07 - 01:12 am Comment from: Mr. Reeee

anti-creative cretin...

Can I have some of whatever you were on?

Sep 29, 07 - 02:46 am Comment from: mugwump

Sorry folks, you're off the mark. iDVD is coming to the iPhone. Bank on it.

MDN MW = "yes" as in, y u p.

Sep 29, 07 - 09:53 am Comment from: Demon

As I've said before Apple is not done introducing iPhone iTrix. I still see Apple offering iWork Mobile before the end on 2008, so some form of iLife Mobile is not a big is not a big stretch.

Sep 29, 07 - 10:05 am Comment from: The Truth

I was visiting Area 51 last week and noticed a hangar now marked "iPhone."

Weird.

Sep 29, 07 - 11:56 am Comment from: John

MDN will publish anything...

Sep 29, 07 - 11:58 am Comment from: LorD 1776

Including you John.

Sep 29, 07 - 12:26 pm Comment from: Drunk Cheney

Keynote presentations from your iPhone?

Sep 29, 07 - 12:28 pm Comment from: Drunk Cheney

Oh, that's iWork. But still would be nice.

Sep 29, 07 - 01:00 pm Comment from: Hg Wells

Nice, but not helpful if you live in the United States (as I do) and cannot purchase the iPhone.

Read that as being in the states in which AT&T;, and therefore Apple, refuse to service.

Sep 29, 07 - 01:13 pm Comment from: Waiting in Alaska

AT&T;is even coming to the great state of Alaska in December. They have bought Dobson Communications (Cellular One up here) which will add about 2 million customers to the rolls. Can't wait. I'm getting one and both my married daughters are getting one.

Sep 29, 07 - 01:35 pm Comment from: Hg Wells

Hadn't heard that, Waiting in Alaska! Perhaps there is hope for the world after all!

I admit that I will probably wait for version 2 anyway, but at least life will have meaning again!

...as will the mythical web page!

Sep 29, 07 - 02:44 pm Comment from: Steve Ballmer

... because they are incompetent!
http://fakesteveballmer.blogspot.com

Sep 29, 07 - 04:13 pm Comment from: Why is this story even still up?

http://www.apple.com/ilife/guidedtour/iphone.html is a link for the iLife guided tour when viewed from the iPhone.

Sep 29, 07 - 04:31 pm Comment from: glad cow

Way to go, "Aaron" - if that is your real name!

Sep 29, 07 - 04:57 pm Comment from: Jooop

iTunes is not part of iLife. The only programs that are on the iLife DVD are iPhoto, iWeb, iMovie, iDVD, and GarageBand.

Sep 29, 07 - 06:59 pm Comment from: groupie

GarageBand.

There's gotta be some way to "play" an iPhone, through air-jamming or something...

Sep 29, 07 - 09:16 pm Comment from: Jesus

The page works fine when viewed on my iPod touch... movie and all. MDN should do a little more research.

Sep 29, 07 - 10:42 pm Comment from: IONLYUSEOSX

There are three icon spaces left on the iPhone to fill (if scrolling will not be available). Now that the iPhone supports video out, I can see Keynote or iWork mobile being an option. Possibly iChat mobile as well. Also, I do not believe Apple is done with the camera app yet. Digital zoom and mp4 capture?

And last but not least, the big one. GAMES for iPhone purchased direct from iTunes!

Sep 29, 07 - 10:42 pm Comment from: Mtnmnn

Recall all of the criticism surrounding iMovie 08? Editing by just scrubbing across clips, etc. Well, I'd lay odds that you'll be able to edit video shot with the on-board camera, soon to be video capable. Just a guess, but it almost certainly why all of iLife 08 is standardizing on the new scrub through interface.

Sep 30, 07 - 12:53 am Comment from: R2

I'm going to fuck Aaron up when I see him.

Sep 30, 07 - 04:56 am Comment from: bored

way too much Apple time on his hands (sound familiar?)

Sep 30, 07 - 02:09 pm Comment from: snapathon

mmmmmmmm....... married daughters

Sep 30, 07 - 09:27 pm Comment from: the other Mark

iTunes was originally included on the iLife disk.

Oct 01, 07 - 12:05 am Comment from: Dimplemonkey

Remember that Flickr app that got removed with 1.1.1? Use your imagination, you'll know what I mean...

Oct 01, 07 - 10:09 am Comment from: shiftOpt k

interesting… very interesting…

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