Mar
1
2010
UPDATE 2: Apple confirms the late March ship-stimate to Wired [via @arsinfiniteloop].
UPDATE 1: Seth Weintraub at 9to5Mac puts up a thoughtful reminder about the nature of analyst notes:
If [analysts] do produce something [...]
Category: iPhone & iPod Touch | Tags: analyst vs magic 8 ball, delay, ipad, Rumors
Feb
26
2010
Okay, that headline about how an analyst thinks Apple should lower the price and add new features next June/July when they release the 4th generation iPhone (not iPhone 4G, that’s a couple years and an [...]
Category: iPhone & iPod Touch | Tags: 4th gen iphone, analyst vs magic 8 ball, AT&T, gestures, iPhone, News
Feb
8
2010
Credit Suisse Research analyst Jonathan Chaplin thinks we can expect Apple’s iPhone to remain exclusive to AT&T for an additional 12-18 months, long past some people’s expectations (and recent rumors). Not only will it [...]
Category: iPhone & iPod Touch | Tags: analyst vs magic 8 ball, analysts, AT&T, Carrier, exclusive, iPhone, News
Jan
20
2010
Apple announces their Jan. 27 “Come see our latest creation” event, and like a big, rumor-filled moth to an increasingly rabid internet flame, rumors of a Verizon iPhone being part of it follow:
“We [...]
Category: iPhone & iPod Touch | Tags: analyst vs magic 8 ball, cdma, come see our latest creation, Rumors, verizon
Jan
14
2010
From the now we’ve heard everything department, an analyst is “predicting” that the 4th generation iPhone’s plastic casing will be multitouch enabled, just like Apple’s new Magic Mouse.
Not “predicted” of course is how it would [...]
Category: iPhone & iPod Touch | Tags: 4th gen iphone, analyst vs magic 8 ball, magic mouse, multitouch, Rumors
Jan
6
2010
Computerworld is rumoring that Apple’s allegedly-to-be-announced-January-27th iTablet/iSlate will run on Verizon’s CDMA network according to… an analysts sources (!)
“The tablet will be supported by multiple [mobile] carriers,” said Brian Marshall of Broadpoint AmTech, [...]
Category: iPhone & iPod Touch | Tags: analyst vs magic 8 ball, cdma, itablet, Rumors, verizon
Dec
29
2009
Harry McCracken’s Technologizer looks back to pre-2007 and the ridiculous amount of hype and — comical in hindsight — guesses (and photoshop concept art) as to just what Apple and Steve Jobs’ iPhone might turn [...]
Category: iPhone & iPod Touch | Tags: analyst vs magic 8 ball, gartenberg, islate, mccracken, News
Dec
2
2009
Regarding all those iPhone on T-Mobile US stories clogging the interwebs lately: that’s all they are — stories. No leaked carrier roadmaps, no Cupertino commuters logging into popular Twitter apps via a T-Mobile IP. No [...]
Category: iPhone & iPod Touch | Tags: analyst vs magic 8 ball, Editorial, t-mobile us
Oct
7
2009
Could Apple’s iPhone be destined for 3rd place in smartphone marketshare by 2012, trailing Nokia/Symbian’s 39% and Google Android’s 14.5% with a paltry 13.7%? That’s what some analysts at Gartner are telling ComputerWorld, with Nokia [...]
Category: iPhone & iPod Touch | Tags: analyst vs magic 8 ball, business model, market share, News, profit share
Aug
31
2009
Stalwart Apple analyst Gene Munster is back, this time predicting the iPhone will hit multiple US carriers within an year — specifically Verizon — as well as expanded video offerings from iTunes — including a [...]
Category: iPhone & iPod Touch | Tags: analyst vs magic 8 ball, apple tv, Rumors, subscription video, verizon
Aug
3
2009
Barrons (via MacRumors) claims an unnamed analyst has seen the near-legendary Apple iTablet and thinks:
The machine impresses with its display of hi-def video content, says the veteran analyst, who asked not to be [...]
Category: iPhone & iPod Touch | Tags: analyst vs magic 8 ball, itablet, Rumors
May
20
2009
That’s what some are taking away from the analyst briefings we linked to last week. Apple would have only one hardware platform, but different versions of the software for different SKUs of the iPhone.
Sigh. It’s [...]
Category: iPhone & iPod Touch | Tags: analyst vs magic 8 ball, future iphones, News, Software
May
13
2009
Business Insider is quoting Piper analyst Gene Munster as saying:
No New iPhones [at Apple's World Wide Developers Conference]. As indicated in today’s press release, we believe Apple will focus on the new [...]
Category: iPhone & iPod Touch | Tags: 3.0, analyst vs magic 8 ball, iphone 3.0, iphone hd, iphone OS 3.0, Rumors, special event, wwdc, wwdc 2009
Apr
7
2009
This is not a drill! We finally have someone, likely with no actual knowledge of the engineering or design of the next gen iPhone, going on record as saying:
his sources indicate Apple is [...]
Category: iPhone & iPod Touch | Tags: analyst vs magic 8 ball, ichat mobile, ichat video, iphone hd, iphone nano, News
Mar
31
2009
Welcome to iPhone Analysts vs. the Magic 8-Ball, where we take the often outlandish, sometime surreal predictions of iPhone analysts and pundits, blogeratti and the ‘net elite, and compare them to the potentially equally precise [...]
Category: iPhone & iPod Touch | Tags: analyst vs magic 8 ball, hspa, hsupa, iphone 3d pro, iphone hd, News, umts, video recording
Feb
10
2009
Before WWDC in June of 2008, when Apple announced the iPhone 3G, supplies of the original iPhone (now called 2G) began to dry up. Apple killed the iPhone 2G rather than allow two versions of [...]
Category: iPhone & iPod Touch | Tags: analyst vs magic 8 ball, cheap iphone, News