32gb iPhone and iTunes 8 leaked?

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Our respected friends over at macrumors.com just posted screenshots from a webpage emailed to them by a reader, in which several yet to be released Apple products are shown, including a 32gb iPhone and iTunes 8 with a release date of June 10th (which, ironically, is smack dab in the middle of the WWDC -- the conference that iPhone 2.0 has recently speculated to be the announcement time and platform for the second generation iPhone). While macrumors correctly caveats that such a public display of Apple pre-release details is highly unlikely to be accurate, I concur with them that you cannot discount the fact that the website has an active @apple.com iTunes store account and password, with an $859 iTunes store credit no less (do you have an $850 store credit? I don't.....seems like an employee benefit to me....).
I'd like to further add that there is little doubt that iTunes 8 will be launched accompanying the 3G compatible iPhone, as the iPhone 2.0 firmware, with access to the famed Apps store, will virtually require 3G access. Although Apple has denied this, likening the App store to the iTunes iPhone store, they have also stated that the App store will not require a WiFi connection like the iTunes store now does. I understand that these apps are likely to be very small in size, some of them, especially the games, may likely equal or exceed the size of an average song download, making it highly unfeasible to download at the painfully slow 2.5G EDGE network currently supporting the first generation iPhone.

And one more thing -- while Apple is famously tight lipped about its upcoming products, and further un-swayed by their stock price, winds of circumstantial change seem to be blowing through the Cupertino headquarters. After Apple's lower than expected earnings forecast this January, the precipitous stock plummet was so discouraging that Steve Jobs himself sent a company wide email to employees telling them to be vigilant, as the stock is certain to recover. The current nature of our economy has created a divisively fickle and volatile market, one that a company such as Apple, built as much on passion for its product as care of its results, would do right by attempting to control.

There is no doubt in anyone's mind -- mine, Jobs, or the multitude of stock analysts that follow Apple -- that a 3G iPhone will open the floodgates for Apple as to the iPhone platform. Steve Jobs is a genius marketer -- and therefore, it is possible that a slow leak would do wonders for his company's financial position. Case in point: fading inventories and lowered prices over in Europe, all strong indicators of an upcoming release, shot Apple's stock up nearly 4%, with the rally continuing today, while bucking the aggregate market.

But yeah, it's probably still a massive fake....but rest assured, the 3G iPhone cometh, and soon.

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