Cingular says June 11 is iPhone Day
My fellow Carnegie Mellon alum Declan McCullagh (go Tartans!) has a unique investigative style: when he wants to find out a product release date, he calls customer service and asks someone. Genius, I say! In this case, he called AT&T/Cingular and spoke to a sales manager who confirmed an on-sale date for the iPhone of June 11, 2007. The alert reader will note that Apple's Worldwide Developers Conference also starts on June 11. Coincidence? Uh, survey says no.What's that noise I hear... is that the sound of millions of customers checking the contract expiration dates for their current cellphone service? Sounds like gophers.
Thanks Marcus!
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Jason said 7:39AM on 3-30-2007
I can not wait.
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Biffo said 7:41AM on 3-30-2007
What's a gopher?
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Roger said 9:48AM on 3-30-2007
"Now Cingular is confirming that the release date will be June 11. A customer service manager at Cingular (we called 800-947-5096 and were transferred to sales) gave us that date late Thursday, but, alas, said he didn't have any additional information beyond that."
The source was a customer service manager? Not a press release or a statement by a president or CEO? No other confirmation? Hasn't anyone learned anything from "All The President's Men" about backing up/confirming what a source says?
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andy said 9:38AM on 3-30-2007
if this thing is also sold sim free, i would seriously consider getting an american friend to get one and post it to uk
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Alex said 9:54AM on 3-30-2007
The iPhone coming out at a Developer forum when its locked down to only apple designed functions is awfully strange. But, yeah, i would love leaving WWDC with an iPhone!
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brian said 10:39AM on 3-30-2007
I wish I were going. I'd hang out in my hotel and watch the stampede from Moscone West to the S.F. Apple Store.
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Jason Golden said 10:55AM on 3-30-2007
I agree with Alex (#5) - the iPhone debuting at WWDC says volumes about possible development for the phone.
I know, they've said already it won't be open. But they never did say if you could program for OSX to interface with the phone's services...maybe talk back home, sync with .Mac, etc.?
Very suspicious.
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Adrian vG said 11:20AM on 3-30-2007
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gopher
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Adrian vG said 11:22AM on 3-30-2007
By the way, there is a possibility that the salesman estimated a date jsut like you all rumor mongers do, to around the developer conference?
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zerock said 11:40AM on 3-30-2007
woo my contract ends on june 9th, iPhone, here i come.
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Mike said 1:14PM on 3-30-2007
To comment No. 5, all the more attention drawn to the possible, simultaneous release of Leopard.
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Mark said 2:38PM on 3-30-2007
I love that you mentioned contacting the service providers to ask when the contract is up. I did that yesterday to find out when my verizon contract is up, Early April! Hooray I'm in the clear! The verizon salesman tried to sell me on another pda because you know...the iPhone is "untested" and no one knows how it will be. . . . .
Maybe I'm an apple fanboy, but every product I've purchased from Apple has worked phenomenally. I think I'll stick with an iPhone over the chocolate, razr, or whatever windows mobile 5/6 running thing verizon sells.
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zerock said 1:31PM on 3-30-2007
If its released in WWDC, then they have a chance to show off some Leopard exclusive features i bet.
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Reg Muffet said 10:42PM on 3-30-2007
Regarding developing for the iPhone:
There are a number of different levels of development possible on such a device, ranging from a full OS X SDK exposing every API of the phone internals, up to a "widget layer" that would allow lightweight JavaScript applets to float above the internal apps.
I can imagine a few scenarios where, If there was the demand and Apple could do it without compromising the quality of the product, they could open development somewhere on this spectrum.
And just as you can run Java applets on many modern phones, chances are if you want to run some sort of app on the iPhone, there will ultimately be a way, even if you have to write it in JavaScript and put it on a web page for Safari to display...
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