The sleazebags who fuel the iPhone 5 rumor will stop at nothing to create news out of thin air. The so-called “confirmed” sightings of two iPhone devices being manufactured in China confirm only one thing: some people have no shame.
Today, new purported “spy” photos have surfaced from one of Apple’s China components suppliers that allegedly prove two things: that the next iPhone will indeed be called the “iPhone 5,” and that the iPhone 5 will be accompanied by another iPhone model — ostensibly the iPhone 4s. The photos, which originally appeared on iphone-release.com — a less than reliable news source — feature a hopelessly blurry shot of a workstation with two white boxes, each seeming to feature “iPhone 5” on their sides. The website also supposes that screen parts laying on the desk of the workstation suggest a 4-inch screen.
The second photo in the series show two assembly lines that marked as “A iPhone” and “B iPhone.” iphone-release.com, as well as numerous other tech news websites, are taking this photo as confirmation that there will be two iPhone devices in September.
Even if, in the end, both of these rumors come true, and the next iPhone is the “iPhone 5,” and it has a little bother called the “iPhone 4s,” bear in mind that these photos were still vague and most likely bogus.
First off, it isn’t a stretch to imagine that the next iPhone will be the “iPhone 5,” and Photoshopping a blurry logo on a couple of boxes from some old Foxconn photo is pretty easy to manage.
Second, the assumption that two assembly lines marked as “A iPhone” and “B iPhone” to mean that there will be two iPhones in September is laughable! If you look at the photo closely, you’ll see that there in another assembly line to the right of the picture — for all we know, that assembly line is “C iPhone / D iPhone.” And then there’s one next to it that says “E iPhone / F iPhone.” And so on. Apple is purportedly ordering 15 million iPhone 5 units for the product launch — do we really think that all 15 million of these production orders are being funneled along one line of a dozen or so workers?
C’mon!
Bear in mind that Apple dispatches its Gestapo-esque Worldwide Loyalty Team to all of its partners’ manufacturing plants to ensure that information and photos are not leaked out into the public. Little is known about what security measures the WLT implements in places like Foxconn and Pegatron, but given the fact that Apple obviously has in-roads with the Chinese government — referencing the story this year of Foxconn staffers being jailed in China for leaking iPad 2 specs to case manufacturers — it is highly unlikely that anyone is getting into the plants with cameras, smartphones, mobile phones, or anything else that takes photos.
This is exactly why we need to guard against the temptation to believe the hype of what is to come out in the days and weeks leading up to the iPhone 5′s launch. Using logic, we can assume one thing: with maybe just five week to go before the announcement of the iPhone 5, Apple is not going to allow any real photos of the new device to leak.
And that includes “spy” photos, “iPhone 5 cases,” and Target ads.
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