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With the unveiling of the iPhone at the WWDC on Monday, there just weren’t very many real surprises. Many of the speculations and rumors came through. Some were merely fiction.
Here are some quick statistics from the week in Digg that was dominated by the enigmatic iPhone. All of these stats are compiled since last Friday, June 6, 2008.
- There have been 2,781 stories submitted about the iPhone.
- Of those, 47 submissions hit the front page.
- 121 Images of the iPhone were submitted. None hit the front page.
- Apps are a big thing on the iPhone, and 61 stories covered them.
- 24 “iPhone Killer” stories were submitted. One hit the front page, and it was reported as inaccurate.
- Regarding dollars, there were 21 iPhone Price stories.
Here are some of the stories that hit the front page that were reported by Diggers as possibly inaccurate. Two are clearly inaccurate, while the bottom two were reported as such, but the stories themselves were opinion pieces that, quite frankly, are not inaccurate at all:
Google Unveils iPhone ‘Killer’
Will the Google phone have you hanging up your iPhone?
New iPhone Images Leaked
Crunchgear has released photos leaked from someone with obviously strong Apples connections of the new iPhone.
Why Apple Could Kill The Nintendo DS
With third-party apps for the iPhone and iPod Touch looming, games (for once) could become Apple’s killer app. There’s only one company on earth that has come back from behind to wrest a multibillion-dollar market away from Sony, beat back a grasping Microsoft and delight tens of millions of customers around the world in the process.
The iPhone Price Drop is a Lie
You probably heard that the iPhone was dropped to $199. What you probably didn’t hear is that you pay an extra $240 over two years in “increased” data plan costs. So what do you end up paying? $439 for the low end model. That doesn’t sound like a price drop to me.
As the days go by, it’s slowing down. Soon, we’ll only see a hundred or so iPhone stories submitted every day. The discussion about this occurred on The Drill Down Friday night live.
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15 Comments
Very well written article. I agree there should be balance of information sharing and also giving too much attention. iphone being super cool and also known as the Jesus phone shouldn’t have so much attention that it dominates the entire digg front page and also since most of iphone info was already out.
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yawn, I dont see what all the fuss is about. the Iphone cant even act as a modem for peets sake!
JT
Just goes to show that the iPhone is still the best…
overpriced and over rated
@Daniel - Or it has been so widely documented and speculated that the information coming out now can become diluted and sensationalized very quickly.
Why do you think so many iPhone articles were submitted? Could it be that 95% of the submits were there to make a grab for the chance of being on the frontpage of Digg?
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We can’t deny that the iPhone has changed the way that mobile technology has changed the world in which we perceive accessible information. Yes, it does have it’s downfalls, however the things that it has done right no one can truly compete with. Now everything with a touch screen becomes a social “iPhone killer” but that is far from true. Apple has been changing the market ever since the release of OSX and it will continue to until Microsoft and it’s competitors realize that the need of the consumer is more important than the need of the business.
iPhone was Dugg. Way Dugg….
With the unveiling of the iPhone at the WWDC on Monday, there just weren’t very many real surprises. Many of the speculations and rumors came through. Some were merely fiction….
why did you waste your time writing this rubbish?
Terry: Why did you waste your time commenting?
@gbarberi It’s called the Internet, it seems every asshole has an opinion and has to share it as often as possible.
“24 “iPhone Killer” stories were submitted. One hit the front page, and it was reported as inaccurate.” hahaha
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If you haven’t tried one do it already. iPhone rocks!