Looks like today is Apple rumor day. Next up, we have some mongering on the highly speculated, extremely anticipated iPhone. This he-said-she-said device has been the source of more rumoring than anything I’ve ever seen or heard of. There have been about a million mock-ups and supposed release dates and yet, to date, not a single thing has gelled.
Now we have tenuous information proclaiming that the iPhone will run a truncated version of OS X Leopard (we’re going to run out of cats eventually). This could be Apple’s answer to Windows Mobile, or it could just be more fluff-for-hits. I’m not really sure.
What we do know is that we’ll probably see the iPhone at Macworld in January. It was widely reported that it’d launch initially on Cingular, but current information indicates that the iPhone will likely be unlocked. I guess we’ll see in about a month.
Well, I’d love if they could slim down OS X into something that might plausibly run on a phone and have decent performance… but I’m not holding my breath.
I’m going to say that’s a fake or superimposed photo of that phone. The keyboard looks identical to the touchscreen keyboard on my T-Mobile MDA, with a pretty simple windowblinds-type theme running on it.
I think it’d be as cool as the next guy but I don’t think that’s it — yet.
C’mon everyone… Has anyone else noticed that Apple has stacked up both the iTV and iPhone intros for 1Q next year ? Why would they miss the holiday sales season unless they really had to ? Does anyone think that they’re not ready on the hardware side with either of these products ? And while were at it, why hasn’t the 6G iPod shipped yet?
You have to believe that they’re all Leopard-based, and none can ship until its out the door. Apple almost has to go down this path because if not, they’d have three OS’es to support (Leopard, iPod OS, and iPhone / iTV OS), but all sharing common apps and comms. This would be a geometric explosion in dev and support costs. With a common platform (kernel), they get leverage in lots of ways.
They just have to wait for it to get done.
KingMowCow.
Yea, we weren’t claiming that that image was authentic. It’s one of those fake images that popped up earlier in the year. It’s just the first iPhone image I fell upon.
Ross,
That’s an interesting point. I hadn’t thought of that.