Apple Fever Grips Entire Universe
Tomorrow, Steve Jobs will presumably unveil the new 3G iPhone in front of Apple’s Worldwide Developer’s Conference. The anticipation has been pretty remarkable, even by tech-geek standards.
Already, breathless bloggers have been critiquing pictures of the new iPhone. One problem: the pictures appear to be fake. Very good fakes, but fake nonetheless. It didn’t stop Crunchgear from showing the photos with the headline, “Breaking: Exclusive leaked pics of the iPhone 2! Thinner design? Check! Different colors? Check! Video chatting? Check and check!” True excitement.
Engadget wasn’t as excited. Ryan Block’s retort: “Loads of fake Apple shots hit the web: 3G iPhone pre-WWDC edition.” What is perhaps more fascinating is the detail in which Block goes into telling us why the pictures from Crunchgear are fake, down to saying, “Ever since the iTunes store launched, iPhone box art has shown the store icon in the fourth row / fourth column position. This box art only has three rows from the top.” Now that guy knows his Apple box art.
Silicon Alley Insider is even holding a contest for users to guess what sorts of features the new iPhone will have on it. Unfortunately, the page the contest is on is failing right now, probably due to the billions of hits they’re receiving from people dying to guess what the iPhone will look like.
My favorite iPhone story has to be from Forbes Magazine’s Brian Caulfield who has actually been physically stalking the iPhone and believes he found the boxes it may be encased in. Apparently, they’re at a Quanta Computer warehouse in Fremont, CA. Maybe. Caulfield learned that 19 huge shipments came into the Port of Oakland over the last month. Semis were spotted rolling from the port to Fremont–which is only 27 miles away.
There is something in those boxes.
And it might be cool.
At any rate, we will learn all about it from Jobs tomorrow at 10AM Pacific. CrunchGear is liveblogging it here, so check it out. The waiting will soon be over.
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