Guessing about Apple’s next invention is one of the tech world’s favourite parlour games, but Michael Gartenberg at Jupiter Research is starting to rue the onset of December iPhone madness.

While I know that December is the best month for Apple rumors, this is starting to get out of hand as mainstream press and analysts comment about a product that may or may not even be announced at Macworld. […] No doubt we’ll see lots more in terms of rumors before Macworld and probably another note or two from analysts with the “Scoop”. As in the past, almost all of these will be wrong.

He goes on to offer some advice to the journos who keep calling him asking for details on Apple’s rumoured mobile handset:

You must presume one of two things, I either don’t know any details so why ask or if I did know details, I probably couldn’t tell them to you for publication (or tell them to you period) so again, why ask? Please, let’s skip this question for the next few weeks, OK?

Better turn off that ringer on your phone, Michael, because I think we’re all in for a long few weeks until Macworld starts on January 9.

December 11th, 2006 in Media, Music, Telecommunications | Permalink