Steve Jobs has a funny sense of time, at least as it relates to the release dates of Apple products. "Available today" actually means "You can get one tomorrow." "Shipping in October" means "Shipping on Halloween -- or maybe early November." Summer has included September before.
So it's quite interesting to see the reports online today that the iPhone will ship on June 11. Jobs announced the product would arrive in June, but I didn't know how much to believe it -- especially given what we know about how unfinished certain of the applications were at the time of the January MacWorld keynote. This isn't a hugely reliable report, of course. We're just relying on the word of an unnamed Cingular rep who might not know the answer -- or who might have just changed the answer by acknowledging it before Steve's ready to put it out in the world.
The date does make a lot of sense -- Apple Worldwide Developer Conference runs June 11-15 this year, so Apple might as well begin by putting their greatest new device into the present and then look to the future of the Mac with the rest of the week.
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