It seems that Apple is celebrating the new year in a traditional Apple manner — by teasing us until we have to beat our heads with a stick to stop the incessant speculation. They did this by flashing the Apple homepage with a picture (see right) that says “The first 30 years were just the beginning. Welcome to 2007.” But what does this mean? Could it be some sort of cryptic message? What if it contains the location of a future Stevenote? But no, what it really is, as the picture clearly shows, is that Apple will start off the new year by releasing…the iFlashlight. The iFlashlight will be Apple’s attempt at further expanding their range of products, this time releasing something that will be of use to all kinds of people who are in need of a little illumination. Apple, you are so smart, I can’t believe you didn’t think of it already!
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iFlashlight -
Typical of Apple, they take a product that already exists and attempt to make it their own with the usual results.
v1.0 of iFlashlight (code name Apollo) will suffer from overheating, random shutdowns, patchy bluetooth support and sealed parts that are impossible for users to replace.
Apple fans will counter the complaints by saying, "Well it sure looks cool".
For a second, looking at that graphic made me forget that 2007 is anything but an Apple related phenomenon.
All looks very luminous to me .. very 'Illuminous', indeed!
It's perfectly obvious that Apple has actually invented the Genesis Device, only it makes iPlanets in the shape of an apple.
I still say iTorch sounds better... it's a shorter name, easier to pronounce...
It's the iFlash version of Leopard designed for weekend wannabes and switchers with every conceivable piece of eye candy built in.
There's also the iLite version for people who don't want all the eye candy and novelty apps but who'd like the Finder in Leopard to be at least as fast as it was in pre OS X days.
Thank you so much for, uh, enlightening us!