Cheaper IPhone version coming? (Lexus marketing)

[rbgarr]

WASHINGTON (MarketWatch) -- Apple Inc. might be preparing to launch a less expensive iPhone near the end of 2007, using a design based on the iPod Nano.
J.P. Morgan analyst Kevin Chang, in a note to clients, said a filing with the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office indicates Apple (AAPL (http://custom.marketwatch.com/custom/earthlink-net/quote-news.asp?symb=AAPL)) is developing a cheaper device aimed at younger customers.

[Tom Montgomery]

Another false rumor; another leaker caught

Thanks here to Reuters for running this story (http://money.cnn.com/2007/07/09/technology/apple.reut/index.htm) about our allegedly forthcoming Nano-based iPhone. Total fake -- because think about it, how can you put a phone keypad into a Nano screen? -- but again the old "marked fiver" trick worked like a charm and we've rounded up the leaker, who turns out to be an administrative assistant who screamed like crazy (http://www.miwian.nl/images/psycho.jpg) when Moshe and the boys arrived to haul her out of her shower this morning. Much love also to Kevin Chang of J.P. Morgan (http://www.igniq.com/images/john_woo_stranglehold_12005.jpg) who cooperated fully with the investigation and handed over the identity of his sources before we had to start cutting off his fingers.


Spy picture of Jim Allchin's bathroom

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No lie. One of our operatives -- a Greek dude named Paris, no less -- managed to wangle a visit to the home of former Microsoft honcho Jim Allchin. During a trip the bathroom our operative spotted these two sleek little notebooks tucked away. Apparently even though Jim has left Microsoft he still worries about Ballmer or Gates dropping by without calling first, and so he has to use his Macs in secret, tucked away in the bog. Call it his guilty pleasure -- he feeds his Mac hunger furtively, the way Ginny Sacrimoni consumes candy bars. More telling is that these are not new Macs, which indicates Jim has been a secret Mac-o-phile for many years. I've previously reported (http://fakesteve.blogspot.com/2007/01/face-it-allchins-got-crush-on-me.html) on the weird man crush that Allchin has on me. This led him to put many of my ideas into Vista, for which he oversaw development. Jim, it's okay now. You're retired. You can use any computer you want. Come out into the light, Jim. And by the way, that iPhone registered in Bellevue, Wash., to a person named "Mij Nihclla"? You're not fooling anyone.


Tom Yager of InfoWorld, please return your iPhone immediately

I'm sorry but we're just not going to allow slams and cheap shots like this. (http://www.infoworld.com/article/07/07/10/28TCiphone_1.html) We're just not. Tom, we'll gladly refund your money. But as of midnight tonight your service will be canceled.


Another leaker identified and captured

Mike Cane, a dear friend of this blog, reports here (http://mikecane.wordpress.com/2007/07/10/iphone-death-star-upgrade-coming) on his blog that we're cooking up a major new version of the iPhone that will make the current version obsolete in just a few months. Mike is citing someone else who is in turn citing a "friend who works at Apple." Mike and other guys, I just want to let all of you guys know that we appreciate you helping us identify the leaker. Whether the information you've printed is true or not, you'll just have to wait and see. Meanwhile we've put the leakmeister in custody and Moshe Hishkill and his team are warming up the water in the shark tank and attaching frickin laser beams to the sharks. Much love.

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