Aaron Adams’s Blowhard Blog

This story from Lisa DiCario at Forbes further illustrates a point I’ve made on this site a few times recently: The world as a whole is largely ignorant of the Mac and the workings of Apple Computer and the Mac community, and some people aren’t afraid to put that ignorance in all it’s glory on display in public forums (such as Forbes’s website).

I really don’t like writing line-by-line analyses of such things, but sometimes when I get caught up in the pre-Expo excitement and I read something that’s especially bad, I’m a little more motivated to do just that.

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Yesterday at CES, a Motorola executive previewed a new phone that plays music from Apple’s iTunes Music store. A brief story about the preview can be found at PC Magazine. The phone mimics the iPod’s interface when browsing music, and according to the article, it can be sync’d “with a computer and the iTunes Music Store”, although in reality it would sync with iTunes and not the music store directly.

This product was announced on Your Mac Life back in July, I believe, and should be a surprise to no one.

Here’s the important thing to learn from the introduction of this device: There is no Apple-branded iPhone. There will be no Apple-branded iPhone any time in the near future.

Apple simply doesn’t believe there is anything special they can do with cell phones that isn’t already done by someone else. Apple has no value to add to the product to make it uniquely theirs, so they won’t create one. It’s not hard to understand.

Please note that I don’t believe this is the end of the rumor. Stupid rumors have an infinite life-span in the Mac world, it seems, and I anticipate hearing about an Apple-branded phone before every Macworld until my death, and 25 years after that.

I present, for your reading and comprehension, this statement, allegedly from Apple, concerning Tuesday’s Macworld keynote address web broadcast:

Apple will not be making satellite coordinates available. Although the keynote WILL be available on our web site - it will NOT be available until sometime AFTER the keynote is over. They do NOT have a time determined, so it may not be immediately after the keynote is over.

This statement seems to have been received by a MacInTouch reader and posted on their site. That’s all good. What isn’t good is the paragraph that precedes it:

Steve Jobs has killed real-time webcasting and satellite broadcast of his Macworld Expo keynote, according to an Apple note forwarded by a MacInTouch reader:

Woah woah woah, stop just a minute. Where did this bit of exaggeration come from?

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