iPhone Release Date Is June 29

willith writes "Apple has placed three iPhone commercials on their Web site today, and each ends with a tag: 'Coming June 29.' This puts to rest the question of when the thing will hit the streets, but there are still worries about allocation — AppleInsider is reporting that the supplies at Cingular/AT&T stores may be relatively tight." And some fanatic sites are already parsing the ads for such enigmas as the "mystery app."

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[Brando_Calrisean]

Okay... but does it run Linux?

Re:Editorial Request (Please Read on June 28th)

[ratnerstar]

Doesn't cure cancer? Apparently you're not familiar with the mystery app!

Re:Editorial Request (Please Read on June 28th)

[Anonymous Coward]

I don't want to start a holy war here, but what is the deal with you Mac fanatics? I've been sitting here at my freelance gig in front of a iPhone for about 20 minutes now while it attempts to copy a 17 Meg file from one folder on the hard drive to another folder. 20 minutes. At home, on my Razr, which by all standards should be a lot slower than this Mac, the same operation would take about 2 minutes. If that.

In addition, during this file transfer, Netscape will not work. And everything else has ground to a halt. Even BBEdit Lite is straining to keep up as I type this.

I won't bore you with the laundry list of other problems that I've encountered while working on various Macs, but suffice it to say there have been many, not the least of which is I've never seen a Mac that has run faster than its Wintel counterpart, despite the Macs' faster chip architecture. My 486/66 with 8 megs of ram runs faster than this 300 mhz machine at times. From a productivity standpoint, I don't get how people can claim that the Macintosh is a superior machine.

Mac addicts, flame me if you'd like, but I'd rather hear some intelligent reasons why anyone would choose to use a Mac over other faster, cheaper, more stable systems.

iDISAGREE

[ajanp]

Because now you can do an iSEARCH, perform an iCLICK on the iMAP, get the iNAME of the iPLACE you want to get your iFOOD, use your iPHONE to make an iCALL to the iCAB to get your iMEAL and then watch an iFLICK on your way back to your iHOME (and your iWIFE if you're lonely).

Clearly you aren't appreciating the vast amount of innovation that went into this device.

Re:Parallels? *YAWN*

[PixelScuba]

If you're some sort of tragic square who needs to run Windows

Yeah man, it's like, can ya dig it... these freaky cats at Microsoft they, like, want you to believe they are innovative and shit, but, it's like, they just take ideas man. And ideas want to be free, like beer man, ideas can't be packaged and sold, they need to run free in the wild, man! Hay brother, keep fightin' fascism from those unhip squares at redmond, man... use the tools of the people, spoken word, rhythm and buying apple products, man!

Re:Editorial Request (Please Read on June 28th)

[Durandal64]

Indeed. Amit Singh has no geek credentials at all.

Re:Stupid commercials

[beathyate]

OK, that's just impossible man. Dead Man's Chest came out last year. So you couldn't have done that 3 years ago.

*ducks*

Re:Parallels? *YAWN*

[Anonymous Coward]

For decades, we Mac users haven't really given a shit what was happening off in PC land.

Well, up and until Apple woke up and realised that the G5 was more of an expensive radiator compared to what the PC land had been using for a couple of years already. Now that you're here, you can take those silly rose-tinted glasses off. And please have some taste, the black turtleneck and cheap wine thing is such a cliché.

Re:Editorial Request (Please Read on June 28th)

[empaler]

Hell, the first iPhone prototypes went back in time and raised Jesus from the dead.

Too bad they didn't come back with pictures of Zombie Jesus...

(*ducks*)

Re:Stupid commercials

[Gothic_Walrus]

if you wanted you could go to Best Buy, spend $25 on Pirates of the Caribbean...

Oh please. Unless you're getting the Blu-Ray version (completely unnecessary if you're downsampling to iPod quality), you're almost guaranteed to find it for fifteen bucks or less at one of the chain stores, possibly quite a bit less if you buy it on sale.

So...um, yeah. I don't know what the point of pointing that out was, but take that! >_>

Re:Traditional?

[Anonymous Coward]

Reminds me of this brand new Irish Pub that just opened up down the road from me.

Oh, you mean the iPub?

Re:Parallels? *YAWN*

[Paradise Pete]

If you're some sort of tragic square who needs to run Windows...Sometimes I wonder if it wouldn't be better to just round up these so-called "Mac users"

So would their squareness make it more difficult to round them up?

Re:iPhone == iFiasco

[CrazyTalk]

You forgot also "Less space than a Nomad" and "Lame"

Re:iPhone == iFiasco

[El Yanqui]

I completely agree. This has flop written all over it. Just like the iPod, the Mac Pro and all those other useless and unpopular Apple products. When will Apple ever learn?

last time you checked... was too long ago!

[Gary W. Longsine]

Regarding the two things the iPod can't do... I haven't tried it myself, but an inexpensive 3rd party product which can waterproof your iPod [h2oaudio.com] will enable it to perform one of the two tasks on your list of things the iPod can't do, leaving you with taxes.

In other news..

[LarsG]

the owners of Microfiber Screen Wipes INC were seen drinking champagne whilst ordering a LearJet.

Joking aside, kudos to Apple for rethinking the phone UI but touch only?

Re:Traditional?

[Profane MuthaFucka]

I had to translate that into French, which has a committee that determines what words mean. Unlike whatever language you speak, French changes far more slowly. They informed me that the current specific meaning of the sentence you wrote as "Words don't have intrinsic meaning, Randroid." is rendered into French as this:

"Profane MuthaFucka, I love to guzzle your cum all day long. I let it drizzle down my chin and use my fingers to push it back into my mouth, savoring its taste which is something between egg yolk and tabasco sauce."

That's the difficulty of claiming that words don't mean anything, and definitions can be ignored because the language is fluid. You don't seem to realize that the language you are apparently using is SO fluid that as you were typing your sentence, the meanings of the words shifted to something which I find tremendously erotic.