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January 7, 2007

Apple Phone = Red Herring?

Apple Computer fanatics have waited months for the chance to watch CEO Steve Jobs launch his company's much-anticipated music-playing cell phone at Macworld on Tuesday. But now they might have to wait a bit longer.

At least that's what Bernstein Research analyst Toni Sacconaghi thinks. The analyst revealed that Apple had not yet received U.S. regulatory approval for the phone, a fact that greatly reduces the probability that Apple would introduce the music-playing cell phone at its annual expo in San Francisco.

RED HERRING | iPhone Gets Macworld Hang-Up

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Posted by Jason D. O'Grady at January 7, 2007 7:30 PM
Category: iPhone
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This just means Apple won't be shipping the thing next week. They could show it, and say they're bringing it to the FCC the next day. It's also possible (I don't know the gory details) that some early phase of FCC compliance testing could be underway, or the cell components complete under the name of a shell company.

Apple would never do that with an upgrade to an existing product since buyers would hold off. But they'd only be causing delays for competitors. (Could you imagine Apple announcing a quad-core MacBook Pro and saying it'll ship in four months?)

This could pose a problem with future upgrades, given Apple's secretive style, but not now.

Posted by: mitchcohen at January 7, 2007 9:35 PM