Breaking: Apple to launch iChat for Windows on Monday!?
- June 7th, 2008
- 15 Comments
Follow me here. There’s a lot of discussion on Digg and other blogs (Hi, Ryan!) saying that these photos of the iPhone 2 are fake, and the part about a Windows XP or Vista requirement is proof. But look again: The Windows stuff is a footnote. And what’s it a footnote to? Look at the images above.
It’s talking about iChat, and says “Now available for iPhone — and Windows,” with a footnote that says “Windows XP SP2 (or higher) or Windows Vista required.”
To me, it’s not saying you need windows to have video chat with an iPhone, it means you’ll need those versions of Windows for the new version of iChat Apple is going to release for PC.
It’s not a stretch: iTunes, Quicktime and now Safari are already on millions of Windows PCs across the world, so Apple adding iChat to the list just makes sense.
Could this be the “One more thing…” on Monday?
Marshall (Who am I?)
2 months ago
Fake. It clearly says “Xp” in the footnote, not “XP.”
Marshall (Who am I?)
2 months ago
And “wifi” should be “Wi-Fi”
John (Who am I?)
2 months ago
Or WiFi, but not “wifi”.
Jake (Who am I?)
2 months ago
And Crunchgear is written on there as well!
daba (Who am I?)
2 months ago
Yeah Right…
Apple doesn’t set out a site as above and they NEVER put requirements as above. And furthermore, no link? no download button?
sooo fake!
Ireland (Who am I?)
2 months ago
This isn’t news to me. I called this on 9th October 2007
http://forums.appleinsider.com/showthread.php?t=79678
ddd (Who am I?)
2 months ago
Fake, like talks, that Steve Jobs not gay.
deep (Who am I?)
2 months ago
Sounds like you’re in denial - the image is not genuine, for a number of reasons. These are the biggest ones:
- the lock is missing on the red iPhone. Even if they were just taking one image and changing the colors, there wouldn’t be a missing lock.
- Apple’s legal department knows better than to publish something like “RED ™”, not to mention the fact that it’s totally uncharacteristic of them to do that.
- the layout of the ad is horrendous, and not even up to par as a professional designer’s rough draft.
If anything, I would say the more likely scenario is that someone with knowledge of the new iPhone (but never having actually seen it), decided to create this “leak” for the purpose of disseminating the information (knowing full well that nobody would pay any attention if it was just a description).
cmason (Who am I?)
2 months ago
I absolutely agree. The layout is laughable, and the “wifi” and “Xp” errors are too striking to be even considered legitimate. While some of this may prove to be true come Monday, these pictures are just lucky guesses.
Jagtesh Chadha (Who am I?)
2 months ago
Going by the trend Apple has followed (releasing iTune and Safari for Windows), it’s a perfectly plausible theory that iChat too is in store. And man, would I love that?! :-)
Guillermo (Who am I?)
2 months ago
Good point I read on Twitter (http://twitter.com/chartier/statuses/829300713): You can already do video chats between iChat and AIM on Windows, so Apple wouldn’t need to release iChat for Windows to enable iPhone-PC video chat.
smokeonit (Who am I?)
2 months ago
aim can do video chat with ichat, but only video, no audio! and the codec aim uses sucks big time, nothing compared to the qaulity of the ichat to ichat video codec…!!!
Jon (Who am I?)
2 months ago
If it did, then this is great because it will force Skype to also release multi-video capabilities - right now only being able to use one video at a time kinda sucks for conference calls.
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James (Who am I?)
2 months ago
Hey, I hear a new rumor!!! Only Steve Jobs knows when the new iPhone will be available and what features it will have!!!
Seriously, the photos above are clearly fake. The “Xp” gives it away. People really need to pay attention to details when photoshopping these fake images and advertising materials.
Vince Veneziani (Who am I?)
2 months ago
Xp = fake
tsk tsk you guys