“Oh Your God! There’s some kind of leaked pictures of the 3G iPhone on that one website. Let’s repost that on the blogs now. There’s no need to think if it’s fake or not. It must be real.”
Basically, that’s what has been happening for the past 2 weeks as the Apple Worldwide Developers Conference is drawing near. The highly anticipated 3G iPhone has been the main topic of the internet chatters as fake news, rumors, unfounded speculations hit the tubes. As usual the most used keystrokes are “copy and paste” as colossal numbers of sites and “bloggers” reposting the same thing over and over. It’s an incestuous world of iPhone watch on the series of tubes.
Seriously, take all the incoming “news” (read: rumors) with a boulder of salt. Does anyone remember the months before the actual iPhone was announced in January 2007?
“The iPhone is made of Zirconium, and it will have two batteries. Oh, It will employ CDMA instead of GSM, blah blah blah, blah.”
Kevin Rose and Leo Laporte fell for the fake informations and made them public. No one is safe. In addition to that, Engadget’s Ryan Block fell victim to a faked Apple internal memo that caused Apple stocks crashing for a short time.
So please, treat rumors as rumors, not as fact; unless you’re working for CNet or Gizmodo.
If anyone is still reading this far, here’s some fake iPhone news that you can’t find anywhere else:
The iPhone will now come in three distinct models. One for the masses, one for the Apple zealots, and one for Steve Jobs. GPS module is included in random unit.
It couldn’t be anymore made up.