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Poll: iPhone at Macworld?
So will there be an iPhone announcement at Macworld? Some speculate that yes, there will be. Others say no, at least not at this time. We here at TUAW are agnostic about the entire issue. We're happy to report rumors about the iPhone in its many possible incarnations--who might manufacture it, what it will be called, and who might buy it-- but we have no solid evidence one way or another as to when or if the beastie might appear.
So what do you think, TUAW readers? Are you with the yays or the nays on this one?
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Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)
Diogo Mendes said 7:20AM on 12-11-2006
Yeah, 1st vote...
I just hope that Vodafone will offer it in Portugal... (Enterprise user with free phones every 6months, yeah!)
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slingshot said 7:36AM on 12-11-2006
I vote option 6. I'm so sick of hearing about it I'm not even sure I'm gonna want one when it comes out. No product can live up to the weight of expectation this thing has amassed.
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Mark S said 7:42AM on 12-11-2006
I'm sick of all the iPhone rumors too. At this point I could care less.
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PlanetartGear said 8:06AM on 12-11-2006
I hope they do release it. The market is in a very similar position to the mp3 market prior to the iPod. Lots of players, lots of devices, (some with quite good hardware) but not a single one with a half way decent UI that "just works" every phone I've owned has been a pain in the arse. Look at how nice that Razor hardware is and then read all the complaints from people on just using the darned address book!
Apple could come in here and make a machine that actually worked, lets hope they do and that it does work and that they can capture enough of the market to make it profitable for them. Hard to measure profits when working with the phone companies, their billing practices are ludicrous.
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Alex said 8:08AM on 12-11-2006
"It was a beastie!"
Gotta love Lord of the Flies.
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LittleJoe said 8:11AM on 12-11-2006
I dont see how we can possibly see an iPhone in the near future when nothing has even been put through the FCC yet.
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Ben Babics said 8:17AM on 12-11-2006
I never cared about the iPhone at all... until last night when my phone broke. Now I am warming up to the idea of an iPhone being announced/released in January.
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Charles Miller said 8:44AM on 12-11-2006
I'd give reasonable odds against there being an iPhone, and if one does exist, reasonable odds against it being introduced at MacWorld. I'm not going to be devastatingly surprised if I'm wrong on both counts, but I'm at least on that side of the fence.
My reasoning turned into a really long essay. You can find it here: http://fishbowl.pastiche.org/2006/12/12/on_the_iphone
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Galen D. W. said 8:45AM on 12-11-2006
This poll needs another option: ENOUGH WITH THE IPHONE ALREADY!!!!
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Gerald Buckley said 10:32AM on 12-11-2006
The iPhone's coming. But, I doubt MWSF07 is going to be where it's debut happens. I think the new TV device though is ready for prime time and will take most of the applause in the keynote. THAT deal is gonna rock if it has a DVR in it.
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Ron Martinez said 11:12AM on 12-11-2006
Well, it's overdue, given growing market demand and speculation, and the overt attempts of phone manufacturers and carriers to fill the gap with iPod-oid music phones. So the onus is on them to get something out the door. Not to mention Wall Street's already factoring in iPhone revs in setting stock price targets.
But it would be no use to deliver a phone that isn't a true leap ahead of what else is out there, and that's probably putting pressure on this development.
mOSX, with some form of iLife/iWork mini-apps in your pocket? Or how about true iChat video phone-to-phone? And form factor: think about the perfect phone and it's got rich audiovisuals, plus a comfortable keypad for texting, emailing, or writing up notes. Then there's the nature of the network connect, and probably reconsidering some of the received design conventions of the mobile world, like the IP connection is via a carrier-controlled walled garden, and nothing unauthorized runs through it. Not exactly aligned with Apple's developer-centric delivery of dev tools with every copy of OSX.
Add to this the fact that carriers engage in extensive testing before they let a phone go live, because support calls hoover up profits and contribute to the dreaded "churn."
So, it means innovating on numerous fronts in a category notorious for rapid innovation and enormous uptake, and the kind of bullet-proof releases required of the console game industry.
A bit more than photoshopping a keypad onto a nano. ; )
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Wheels said 12:00PM on 12-11-2006
"Macworld is about Macs"
Steve Jobs
Macworld 2006
Other than that, I don't give a flying squirrel about the iPhone.
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Philapple said 1:33PM on 12-11-2006
At this moment it appenz a strange things: if you try to search the word "iPhone" on Apple Search (that is based on Google Co Co) the first result is Apple.com!
Look at this page: http://www.filippocorti.com/pages/page2/mac/result/?cx=009486749950716717919%3Aedzcv6gfaeg&q=iPhone&sa=Search&cof=FORID%3A11
And here 1 image: http://www.filippocorti.com/file/blog/2006/dicembre/Apple_iPhone_GoogleCoCo.jpg
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Dudesky said 2:11PM on 12-11-2006
I really hope the phone comes out, just so we can stop all these rumors. BUT, if it comes out and it is not avaliable for Sprint, I think I might jump off a bridge!
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Scott F said 3:23PM on 12-11-2006
You're missing one option: Shut the hell up about the nonexistant iPhone already.
Seriously. Can we talk about Apple's phone when and if it actualy exists? Enough.
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Alex said 3:51PM on 12-11-2006
Even if apple was not going to announce it originally there, they will now. If not release it, they will announce it. I mean think about most of their advertising is already done for them.
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Steven Fisher said 4:50PM on 12-11-2006
The iPhone is a crazy rumor told only by people trying to drive up their impressions.
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Peter Kirn said 12:04PM on 12-12-2006
You know, I'm excited about Macworld for entirely different reasons. I'm psyched to be able to go and hang out with some of the brightest minds on the platform, to see some writers I haven't seen in a while, to get to go to Flashforward Monday and Tuesday and get some deep tricks for Flash projects I'm working on ... remember, you know, the Mac? Hey, if Apple comes out with some ingenious new gadget, great. But I don't care about Apple because of their gadgets. I care about their computers, period. And yes, that includes iPod.
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