Boasting about getting the iPhone 4S right feels like watching a football game at someone’s funeral and fist-pumping a touchdown in the middle of a eulogy. Many iPhone users are frustrated and disappointed that Apple failed to deliver on the iPhone 5 expectations.
But as I said in another article, it isn’t really the iPhone 4S’s fault — it’s an amazing phone. The fault lies in the expectations that the iPhone 5 rumor mill raised — and Apple’ inability to manage them.
That being said, the iPhone 5 News Blog tried to set itself apart from the pack in playing the skeptic to most of the iPhone 5 rumors. No matter how much we as Apple fans hoped that they would be true, we offered a voice of dissent on virtually every bogus iPhone 5 sighting, case, photo, or otherwise.
Moreover, we were very fortunate to get the inside track on an inside source in the consumer electronics accessories industry who, early, on, told us that the next iPhone would look exactly like the iPhone 4. Our “mystery man” allowed the iPhone 5 News Blog to be the first news source to report this claim, and in the end, it proved to be totally true.
Granted, it was a truth that no one wanted to see come true. However, it should offer some consolation that we had an inkling of this for virtually half of the summer. It should also tell you that the next time our inside source tells us something, we ought to believe it!
It should also be noted that iPhone 5 News Blog writer Charles Moore and even the lesser-read Sven Rafferty reported the iPhone 4S to astonishing accuracy as far back as the Spring. charles was really the first to put the possibility up on the blog.
Here is the timeline of the iPhone 5 News Blog’s reporting on the iPhone 4S. Take a look at the unlikely journey of the iPhone 4S from doubt to reality:
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