Can Apple top the iPhone? The rumor mill says no
With less than 48 hours to go before Monday’s opening keynote presentation at Apple’s annual Worldwide Developers Conference in San Francisco, the Apple rumor mill just isn’t cranking ‘em out like the old days. Lower-priced iPhones will be revealed Monday, says the Financial Times. The only unknown detail is whether the cheap one will be $99 or $149.
In the decade since Jobs first stunned the world by unveiling an iMac onstage — a product that had been seen by fewer than 150 people — it’s been harder and harder to keep a new product a secret. Cameras line the pockets of both network engineers and day laborers, all of whom are now Apple-holic enough to post spy photos of upcoming products. In 1998, Jobs had it easy keeping the iMac a secret. A new Mac, fans presumed, would be just another beige box with a faster CPU and more memory than the previous model.
