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Community goes extremely overboard on iPhone Extreme

by Mike Schramm Oct 2nd 2007 at 5:00PM


Tom from iPhonebuglist.com was poking around in Apple's online feedback form, and as you can see above, he found something interesting hidden in the HTML code. There was a product tag on the form not for the iPhone, but for the "iPhone Extreme." The page has since been fixed, and there's no trace of it ever appearing.

We completely agree with Apple Insider on this one: it's a stretch to say this is anything more than a coder mixup. Still, there it is, right there (in a Windows window! Tom, how dare you!). Could it be a "sport" version of the iPhone? Or a home device designed to serve as a standalone, Mac-less dock for your iPhone on your Airport Extreme network?

Probably neither. I'm pretty sure a comment over at 9-to-5 Mac has it right (although the site themselves went way overboard, calling a February release on what is really an imaginary product): whoever coded the page just used the Airport Extreme template, and did a mass cut-and-paste with "iPhone" and "Airport." Amazing that the Mac community can get so worked up over what almost surely is simply a coder's mistake.

Thanks to everyone who sent this in!

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Furies

TUAW and 9to5 have gotten in many arguments, this not being the first. Best to let the big boys handle this one =) However being said, this does not look missplaced...

I must say though that both blogs have earned well respected spots on my RSS reader...right next to each other no less haha.

October 04 2007 at 6:28 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
Cleve

@Dave. 9to5mac.com Showed pictures of boththe iPod Touch and Nano called the specs and was the 1st o call the Aluminum iMac. What do they have to do to earn our respect?

October 04 2007 at 5:57 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
Alan Latteri

16gig iPhone, coming end of november. heard it at AT&T store last night.

October 03 2007 at 1:01 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
Joe

@Dave - 9to5 is a pretty new site but they were dead-on accurate with the new iMacs and the new Nanos. They were the first with some very specific details about both of those. I wouldn't call them baseless. Your complaint sounds like it should be attributed to ThinkSecret instead.

October 03 2007 at 9:39 AM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
knockout

"Mistake"?? Give me a fucking break, it's the HTML source, not the photoshopped(r) banner on the site that is wrong!
Please, be kind to coders :)

October 03 2007 at 4:06 AM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
basscadet

"All signs point to February."

what signs??? voices in their heads???

October 03 2007 at 3:34 AM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
dinesh

Arrrggghhhhh!!!! It's been removed now....

October 02 2007 at 11:04 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
Damien Guard

Sounds like the sort of name they'd give the one with faster networking... like the 3G version. (They'd need the distinction to sell them side by side given the increased costs and decreased battery life of 3G)

[)amien

October 02 2007 at 6:50 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
russ d

Those people have been smoking 9 to 5 crack.

October 02 2007 at 6:27 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
Dave

Can we please stop giving publicity to 9 to 5 mac? They have taken the approach of just throwing baseless rumors around (as well as making up some of their own) in hopes of getting something right someday that will give them undeserved credibility.

October 02 2007 at 5:37 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
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