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SAI: Walt Mossberg has no clue when the iPhone 3G will ship
Talk about your offhand comments getting scrutinized for every nuance of meaning. In a chat with Silicon Alley Insider, our dear Uncle Walt expresses his bemusement that a casual remark in Finland has echoed around the blogosphere so vigorously. As we noted along with plenty of other sites, Walt's "the iPhone will be 3G in 60 days" statement seemed quite loaded with certainty -- and he'd be in at least some sort of position to know before the rest of us -- but as it turns out, Walt was basing his estimated date off of the same rumors and other remarks that we've all heard already.
It's back to reading tea leaves and the entrails of birds for us prognosticators, I guess.
Thanks, Dan.
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Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)
Frank said 3:23PM on 4-08-2008
oh, internets -- how you LOVE to toy with us.
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DrWho said 3:46PM on 4-08-2008
lol - rumor based on a rumor (based on more rumors...)
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Aron Trimble said 3:55PM on 4-08-2008
something about the blind following the blind...
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John Kirk said 4:27PM on 4-08-2008
The internet is like a giant echo chamber. A whisper at one end comes out as a giant distorted scream at the other end. (And to carry the analogy a little further, most rumors are pulled straight from someone's rear "end".)
Since I've never been right before and am unlikely to repeat the performance, I want to gloat a little bit here. I argued (quite unconvincingly as it turned out) that people had their logic all backwards. Most argued that Mossberg was in the know and that his comments therefore must have come from a reliable authority. I argued that Mossberg was in the know precisely because he would never reveal inside information. Accordingly, he would never casually reveal information that had been provided to him in confidence.
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atuck said 4:08PM on 4-08-2008
Oh, well in that case, I am gonna pick up about three iPhones right now, and then kick and scream about it when it turns out that he was right. Oh the hilarity!
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Ed said 4:37PM on 4-08-2008
Does anyone think he might have signed an NDA? It's possible it did just slip out during his speech and now that he's getting the heat from apple, he's claiming he just heard it on the internet.
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pjcabrera said 5:25PM on 4-08-2008
Bull cookies.
This is Walt doing spin control after getting slapped on the wrist for his big mouth. He has more insider knowledge in his little pinky than all the Weblogs Inc staff put together.
Walt knows.
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iPhoneinator said 6:03PM on 4-08-2008
ya, i cant believe everyone actually belivied him! i think he knows but now apple is just annoying him about it and he made a coverup... i mean come on! as far up as he is he has to know sumthing...
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Alex Rzem said 12:31AM on 4-09-2008
At least we'll have the 3G iPhone in 60 days down in Oz: http://forums.mactalk.com.au/20/47520-australian-iphone-release-info-given-resellers-apple-australia.html
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iPhoneinator said 7:26PM on 4-10-2008
i wonder if the 3g iphone will be a new look to. i mean surely they wouldnt just send out a new version of the fone without changing the look. i wonder if itll be that dual sided trackpad thing that apple got a patened (spelled rite?) for? hmmm..
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