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December 28, 2006

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Top ten Apple Rumors

Posted Dec. 28, ’06, 10:05 AM PT by Dan Moren
Category | Apple » Speculation

toptenrumors.jpgYou know, a list of the top ten rumors from Apple’s history kind of reads like one of those compilation albums you’ll see advertised on TV: “You’ll get such favorites as ‘The iPhone Medley’ and ‘I wish upon an Apple PDA’…” CNet’s Crave has run down the list of old chestnuts, from “porting the Mac OS to generic PC hardware” to “a true video iPod.”

I have to wonder if this is really a comprehensive list of the last 30 years, since most of them date from the ’90s at the earliest. Then again, I don’t think I was cogent enough during the eighties to be aware of Apple rumors. Unless they involved He-Man or Transformers.

Of the list, only one of the rumors has panned out: the transition of the Mac OS to the Intel platform (okay, we’ll give them half credit on the “Apple purchasing BeOS” rumor by substituting Be for NeXT). Some may still have their day in the sun (the true video iPod), while others are probably only a matter of wishful thinking (a Nintendo-Apple partnership, sigh), and, of course, the iPhone, which I refuse to believe in until I’m making a call on it while not surrounded by a gaggle of supermodels (that’s how I’ll know I’m awake). But here, on the eve of Macworld Expo, the rumor mills are churning away. I myself plan to start a good four or five rumors per month in 2007. Call it my New Year’s resolution.

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1 Comments

Dan--the man said:

I'd be happy if this were the next Mac Mini case

December 28, 2006 1:16 PM

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