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Phil Schiller: Apple rumormonger

by Scott McNulty Mar 6th 2008 at 5:04PM



Phil Schiller isn't only Apple's Senior Vice President of Worldwide Product Marketing it would seem he is also a fan of Apple rumors. If you watch the video of today's event it is plain as day on his calendar (served up to his iPhone via ActiveSync): 2pm: Brainstorm new Apple rumors. Oh, Phil, you scamp!

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Luis Menendez

Just what we need!

March 07 2008 at 8:09 AM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
Graham

Surely the aspect so far ignored is that the software update is coming in late June, the end of the 2nd quarter. Installing apps from the APp store is going to need some bandwidth.... perhaps a 3G iphone might arrive around the same time?

March 06 2008 at 7:13 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
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Bill Mac

I totally thought that too as soon as the word June came outta SJ's mouth.

I'm betting not only a v2.0 iPhone software, but a v2.0 iPhone hardware as well in late June.

All the more reason to buy a whole new phone instead of just doing the free upgrade. :)

March 06 2008 at 8:02 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
jonathan

true, and as much as i'd love a 3g iphone, (i currently have a 1.1.4 jb one) i have no problems downloading apps from installer on EDGE.
even the slightly larger ones at 5MB (like the bsd subsystem)

i imagine some games (like that spore) might be heavy duty, but i cant think of these apps being larger than the ones we currently see on installer....correct me if im wrong...

March 06 2008 at 11:24 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
michas_pi

Oh, Phil, you're such a card!

March 06 2008 at 7:12 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
Bryan

I still think its dumb that Apple says there will be a nominal charge for Fireware 2.0 for Touch users.

OK, I understand the charge for the JSU, that included 5 new apps. But Fireware 2.0 is just giving us ACCESS to the Apps Store! Why does their accounting require a charge for that? Seems a little unfair.

OK Steve Jobs, you're not looking to make a profit on this charge. Then give it to us for $1.

March 06 2008 at 6:08 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
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Blaktornado

Even if this isn't a joke, it would be very funny and clever if Apple DID actually start off most of those rumors to build hype :P

Although, surely, they don't want people being disappointed either so it's unlikely.

March 06 2008 at 5:51 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
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matthew

I actually was thinking about that during the event. There were a lot of last-minute rumors about the SDK being more limited and less far along etc. and my feeling was that the actual announcements were way above the many pessimistic expectations. It made me wonder if any of the negative rumors were planted....

March 06 2008 at 6:09 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
tristan

Was there any mention on a new calendar application other than exchange support? this version looks slightly different. it looks like it might support multiple calendars. there are 2 + buttons. top and bottom right. I may have just totally missed mention of this fact during the live blog.

March 06 2008 at 5:26 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
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Jake

Yep, you can hook the Calendar app up to sync with as many accounts as you want. Only one Exchange account, but you can have one Exchange, one iCal, etc.

March 06 2008 at 5:32 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
maturola

They did say it will support multiple cals

March 06 2008 at 5:41 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
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