The Speculative Pre-History of the iPhone

harrymcc writes "The blogosphere is abuzz with rumors about 'iSlate,' Apple's supposed upcoming tablet. It's constructive to look back at coverage of the first iPhone in the months before it was announced. A high percentage of what was reported turned out to be hooey — as I remembered as I reviewed stories that said the iPhone would have a click wheel, a slide-out keyboard, and two batteries, and would run on an Apple-branded wireless network. I'm guessing that much of what we 'know' about iSlate is similarly off-base."

Comments

That may be true, but

[dilemmachine]

It will still be an amazing device nonetheless. Not just because of what it can do, but because of the thousands of awesome apps that can run on it.

I see, you guys are working really hard...

[Hurricane78]

...to pull yet another Apple article out of your asses, even when there is absolutely nothing to report anymore and we’re all already stuffed to the top with it.

I wonder what Apple pays for this...

Just remember: Every new story about it, makes me want it less and block it more.

Of course the anti-Apple fanbois are out in force.

[aussersterne]

Listen, I'm a Linux user (okay, I do own an iPhone, but I was a Palm phone user for years before that) and don't own or use a Mac or any other Apple products (apart from an iPhone), but seriously. Apple makes products that are, to my eye, of a generally better design, quality, and level of attentiveness and integration than your average Dell or HP or Motorola, etc.

Apple products are well-liked and often do very well in their market segments.

Shock though it may come to some here, the iPhone does in fact make and receive calls and do any number of other very useful things, yes even in New York, and I imagine that the iPod is pretty good at playing music and Macs are pretty good at web browsing, word processing, multimedia, and other things that many people typically use computers for.

So what's with the virulent, rabid anti-Apple hyperbole and the (getting very old and boring) claims (presumably in the interest of a kind of sledgehammer humor) that Apple products don't actually work at all, and that there is therefore something offensive about people that use Apple products?

Is Slashdot the victim of a giant backhanded astroturfing campaign by Verizon, HP, and Dell, or what?