Atomic iPhone? I never said that! [u]
May 15th 2008
I4U News reports that yesterday's Atom iPhone is today's retraction. Ain't no such thang, says Intel Germany's managing director Hannes Schwaderer, 'I was misquoted.'
It turns out he was misquoted by computer. The automagical computer translation of the original ZDNet Germany write up went unquestioned by Mac Rumors, which spawned the story, and the rest of us followed just as blindly, or so goes the story told by Fortune.
[u] AppleInsider, among a host of others, report that the fault for yesterday's Atomic iPhone hysteria lies squarely with ZDNet Germany. No machine translation screw up to blame, which lets the Mac blogsphere off the hook for the content but not our unflinching embrace of it. [u]
One of the sheep added benchmarks to his articles. Almost everyone included a completely unrelated photo. This particular sheep decided to call this latest Apple handset iteration the "iPhone bold."
If I weren't so busy writing up the latest unsubstantiated rumor I might be embarrassed. Might be...
What's your take?
