Filed under: Analysis / Opinion, Cult of Mac, Apple, iPhone
Community goes extremely overboard on iPhone Extreme
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!
Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)
Dave said 5:38PM on 10-02-2007
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.
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Damien Guard said 6:59PM on 10-02-2007
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
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russ d said 7:03PM on 10-02-2007
Those people have been smoking 9 to 5 crack.
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dinesh said 11:05PM on 10-02-2007
Arrrggghhhhh!!!! It's been removed now....
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basscadet said 3:34AM on 10-03-2007
"All signs point to February."
what signs??? voices in their heads???
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Knockout said 4:06AM on 10-03-2007
"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 :)
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Joe said 9:39AM on 10-03-2007
@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.
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Alan Latteri said 1:13PM on 10-03-2007
16gig iPhone, coming end of november. heard it at AT&T store last night.
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Cleve said 6:00PM on 10-04-2007
@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?
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Furies said 6:45PM on 10-04-2007
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.
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