We wouldn't figure Apple to be a company that would just slap "Extreme" on the back-end of one of its products (er,
so maybe we would), but nevertheless, a strange reference was recently spotted while perusing some of the source code on Apple's website. The code, which was noticed "while looking through the source on the feedback site," lists iPhone Extreme as a product value, but that's absolutely all we have to go on for now. Notably, this isn't the
first time a handset has been
prematurely discovered by snooping through code, but here's to hoping that this thing gets a name change if it indeed proves real.
UPDATE: AppleInsider is now reporting that the phrase was "simply a sloppy copy-and-paste job on the part of an Apple webmaster who apparently used the company's existing AirPort Extreme feedback form to creating one for the iPhone."
[Via
AppleInsider, thanks Daniel]
posted Oct 2nd 2007 at 2:28PM
Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)
James Rainey @ Oct 3rd 2007 4:14PM
What's in a name? Could we worry about anything less important? Like an iPhone Nano maybe? Or whether my iPhone is bricked because I unlocked it and installed software not supported by Apple?
YAAAAAAAAAAAWWWWWWWWWWWWNNNNNNNNNNNNNNN
I nearly fell asleep typing this.
Jed @ Oct 2nd 2007 3:22PM
Hopefully it will be an extremely normal smartphone this time 'round.
Joe @ Oct 2nd 2007 3:26PM
Oops, this is only a cut-n-paste error from Apple Extreme...
PeterF @ Oct 2nd 2007 3:55PM
Gosh, what is with apple? Airport Extreme, Superdrives, etc. Microsoft doesn't put words like that in their product names!
svenbygolly @ Oct 2nd 2007 4:35PM
Anybody notice the CSS class name they use in the same form for required comments? "sosumi"
PEZ @ Oct 2nd 2007 6:14PM
I could take the source code from THIS site, and change a word to say "Gizmodo Sponsored" and take a screen shot. Does that make it real?
Apparently not. But it is now.