Filed under: Odds and ends, Apple
The iPhone that wasn't
It is Monday, and you know what that means! The iPhone is upon us. Much like Brian Lam of Gizmodo promised us, the iPhone is here and it isn't what you were expecting. Sure, we all knew that Apple doesn't hold the trademark for the iPhone, but that doesn't mean that Apple wouldn't release one of the most anticipated products of their history with a name they didn't own, on a Monday scant days before Christmas.
Oh, wait, that's right. The iPhone is a Linksys product and has nothing to do with the mythical iPhone much as Laurie predicted. So what does this tell us? Not much, other than Mac fans really like rumors, but we knew that already.
Anyway, iPhone isn't that great of a name to begin with. Apple has a great brand with iPod so I predict that if Apple introduces a phone it will be under the iPod brand, though that's a big if.
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Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)
cotdc said 2:35PM on 12-18-2006
Gawker sucks, their lame ass *joke* proves it
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Chris said 2:50PM on 12-18-2006
The iPhone post at Gizmodo was tagged "Apple" yesterday. That tag is now mysteriously absent.
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Sam said 2:58PM on 12-18-2006
Brian Lam is a douche. Gizmodo readers are leaving in droves, going to places that would rather report news than start sensationalist rumors for a few inbound links.
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Fernando said 3:16PM on 12-18-2006
Say goodbye to my bookmarks gizmodo.
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Heelix said 3:28PM on 12-18-2006
please stop being such drama-queens! everything was tong-in-cheek. sure he played on all the fanatics out there feeding and scouring the web for the latest rumor.
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Daniel Cheung said 3:58PM on 12-18-2006
Perhaps the Apple cellphone will be called "iPod Talk"?
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Matthew said 4:26PM on 12-18-2006
I'd like to see Apple call the new(?) mobile handset the Newton.
A strong argument can be made for doing just that.
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jason said 6:04PM on 12-18-2006
could it be called the imobile? yeah, people have to stop using the name "iphone"...
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Maddles said 3:01AM on 12-19-2006
Perhaps "iCall"
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DJRyRy said 9:35AM on 12-19-2006
Ha Ha!
I work at Cisco... (sadly I have to use a Windows XP-based IBM Thinkpad which makes me miss my macs at home)... I've been laughing for awhile about all the "iPhone" junk that's been posted here because I've known for awhile that we owned the the name and were releasing a product with that name.
I wonder what bloggers are gonna call the product formally rumored to be the iPhone now...
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Daniel Rodriguez said 11:52AM on 12-19-2006
"Anyway, iPhone isn't that great of a name to begin with. Apple has a great brand with iPod so I predict that if Apple introduces a phone it will be under the iPod brand, though that's a big if."
It's easy to say that now in retrospect!
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splurge said 4:39PM on 12-19-2006
it will be the iMob surely?
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