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iPhone 3.0 Rumour Check: Rose Was Right

Adrian Covert — Tue, 17 Mar 2009 22:30:00 +0000

So it looks like Kevin Rose still knows what the hell he’s talking about when it comes to Apple-centric rumours…for the most part. The Digg founder was nearly perfect with his predictions that the iPhone would have cut and paste, but no video. His claims that the iPhone would have more Palm Pre-esque features was also more or less accurate. Granted, these weren’t as controversial as some of his other claims, but it’s still impressive. The one prediction Rose didn’t get right? He claimed there wouldn’t be MMS support this go around. Get it TOGETHER, Kev. You’re slippin’. [iPhone 3.0 on Giz]

Kevin Rose Nails Today’s Apple News, All Known Associates Permanently Buried by Apple

John Mahoney — Tue, 09 Sep 2008 21:13:55 +0000

So Digg’s Kevin Rose polished off his crystal ball prior to today’s Apple event, as he is wont to do. We posted on his rumours, with the necessary scepticism. And now as the dust settles on our live coverage, we doff our hat to everyone’s favourite iSight Carnac: just about every single detail Kevin hit, including the actual product shot of the redesigned Nano above, was 100% true.

Let’s hope his leak at Apple has an alibi when his Steveness comes knocking. Here was Kevin’s prognosticating:

- Revamp of entire iPod line.
– Small cosmetic changes to Touch, Nano to see significant redesign (see pic).
– iPods to see fairly large price drops to distance itself from the $199 iPhone.
– iPod touch 2.1 software, iPhone to get update very soon after.
– iTunes 8.0 (”it’s a big update w/new features”).

And on iTunes 8:

iTunes 8 includes Genius, which makes playlists from songs in your library that go great together. Genius also includes Genius sidebar, which recommends music from the iTunes Store that you don’t already have.

With iTunes 8, browse your artists and albums visually with the new Grid view; download your favourite TV shows in HD quality from the iTunes Store; sync your media with iPod nano (4th generation), iPod classic (2nd generation), and iPod touch (2nd generation); and enjoy a stunning new music visualizer.

Even the layout mockup, which was coyly what it would look like “if I had to guess”–100% correct:

And of course, the Nano photo above. Not a rendering, an actual product shot of the silver Nano. So besides skipping the ancillary announcements like Nike+ and the new headphones, Rose nailed it.

One other side point: this also shows that Apple has smartly reconsidered the same strategy that issued a spew of take-down notices with every leak that hit the web and eventually forced blogs like Think Secret to shut down. It’s all or nothing with that strategy–as only targeting the information that’s correct is the deadest giveaway possible–and once something hits the web, there’s very little one company can do to stop it. As we’ve seen a bajillion times.

So congrats Kevin–this time (we all know you’ve had your misses, too). Make sure you take your new buddy in Cupertino out for a nice, juicy steak (in Sacramento, with fake mustaches) while the axe hangs. [Kevin Rose]

Kevin Rose iPod Rumors: Price Cut, New iTunes 8.0 Features and Tall, Rounded Nano

Matt Buchanan — Sat, 23 Aug 2008 03:18:01 +0000

Kevin Rose’s Apple crystal ball has been wrong more often than not (he was sorta right about US$199 iPhone), but this time he’s seen pictures people! (”It looks pretty cool.”) He says that not only will the new iPod nano be tall and skinny and giant-screened like we’ve heard, he says it’ll be rounded (like iPhone 3G’s ass-side, but all the way around), and even provides this handy rendering. His other rumourage, like a huge iTunes update with for-real new features, is all way more reasonable than his past forecasting, so they’re actually possible too!

- Revamp of entire iPod line.
– Small cosmetic changes to Touch, Nano to see significant redesign (see pic below).
– iPods to see fairly large price drops to distance itself from the US$199 iPhone.
– iPod touch 2.1 software, iPhone to get update very soon after.
– iTunes 8.0 (”it’s a big update w/new features”).
– All of this coming in the next 2-3 weeks.

In a way I kinda miss the crazier predictions even if he is more correct now–I liked hoping that at least one of his more outlandish ones was true. And he says more info–with pictures–is coming. Has Kevin finally gotten a rock solid source? [Kevin Rose]

Kevin Rose Sets Up Lame Home Theatre System (Verdict: BURIED!)

Jesus Diaz — Wed, 09 Apr 2008 15:50:00 +0000

As any good tech aficionado, Kevin Rose has put together his new home theatre system all by himself. As any good rich tech geek, however, Kevin Rose has set up quite a ghetto setup, spending just around US$9,040 on it. Honestly, given his worth, I was expecting a Sony Death Star projector and a full Kaleidescape rack. Instead, we got this suburbia setup, complete with setup videos:

Projector: US$2700.
Projector screen: US$700.
Denon receiver: US$1200.
Series 3 HD TiVO: US$660.
Klipsch right and left floor standing speaker: US$2500 (US$1249 each).
Klipsch subwoofer: US$500.
Klipsch centre speaker: US$450.
Apple TV: US$330.
Professional installation: free

Total: US$9040

It’s not that bad, but come on Kevin, we were expecting a full Enterprise-themed home theatre. What happened to the spend-spend-spend culture of the 90s? Where’s the “dot com” here? Is this part of some kind of some cultivated shabby lifestyle? What’s the deal, man? Put some of that money back into the economy, damnit.

[My HDTV Choice —Thanks Alan]

Kevin Rose Eats Funny Red Pills Again, Predicts iPhone 3G

Jesus Diaz — Mon, 24 Mar 2008 17:30:30 +0000

After being absolutely wrong wrong wrong (WRONG) about the first iPhone, Digg’s Kevin Rose has now settled down for the obvious: he says that the 3G version of the JesusPhone will have a camera on the front for video-conferencing with other 3G iPhone and Macintosh iChat users. Most probably, he is right about this, but not about the rest of his predictions:

Kevin also said that Apple has restricted background-running applications because they don’t want competition to iChat from third-party applications made using the SDK. The fact is that, if they wanted to ban any direct competition to their own applications, they will simply not approve them for publication and get done with it, without affecting any other developer.

The truth, however, is much simpler than that: Apple hasn’t hidden the fact that they are setting this limit to guarantee a flawless user experience, so the core functions of the iPhone are never affected by applications stealing CPU cycles in the background. And that’s the whole story, really. Installer.app applications will still be able to run in the background, like many do right now (like Apollo.)

But regarding the video conference, yes, he’s probably right. It’s logical to expect this from Apple. In fact, most probably the 3G iPhone will have videoconferencing with any other 3G-based video-conferencing mobile phone out there, because they use the same h.264 encoding that iChat uses.

In other news, completely drunk sources report that Drew Curtis was heard saying that the next iPhone will be “really shiny.” [Diggnation]