Will this iPhone nonsense ever cease? I’m guessing not until Apple actually comes out with a mobile phone. At which point, iPhone rumors will be supplanted, at the same level of intensity, with iFridge rumors. Did you hear it will make Apple logo-shaped iCeCubes? It’s going to be totally chill.
Not only do we hardly report every instance of an iPhone rumor, but I’m still on the skeptical side, along with David Pogue (who I am now contractually obligated to refer to as “Sir David Pogue, Knight of the King’s Realm”).
Still, we did report on the iTunes Phone Driver in the iTunes 7 installer (it’s still there in 7.0.1, though now it’s listed as “Disabled”). I maintain that it’s merely an updated driver for the iTunes phones that Motorola’s been making.
That doesn’t quite explain these strings that MacRumors dug out of iTunes 7, though, some of which make allusions to TV shows and videos on mobile phones—a feature that iTunes-compatible phones don’t support…yet. While some have taken this as tacit confirmation that Apple’s developing a phone, I’m adopting more of a wait-and-see approach. These could merely be for updates to existing iTunes-compatible phones, though Apple hasn’t seemed very excited about them so far. And really, if Apple was going to release a mobile phone, it seems to me that they’d keep it under the iPod branding.
[via Gizmodo]
I can't speak for everyone, but I'm personally sick of "all-in-one" gadgets. I'm the kind of person who regrets having bought a phone with more features than I needed (such as a camera and Bluetooth).
An iPhone? iWon't be buying it. iLike my iPod just fine, and iDon't need it to field calls.