Rhapsody Survey Reveals iPhone 4 ;)

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While I regularly advise marketing folks to go easy on the exclamation points, and despite their minor grammatical gaffe, Rhapsody did fire off a notable tweet yesterday:

is looking for iPhone app users who want to help in a BETA program! Join and test app builds before they go to market! http://bit.ly/9T2zY5

Not only could this provide some interesting opportunities, Rhapsody’s registration survey reveals the iPhone 4! Given public exploits by the Apple Gestapo, it’s quite clear a new phone is coming. I’m just glad Rhapsody ran with a “4” versus “4G” designation. Whatever comes next will indeed be the fourth generation iPhone, but in the mobile space 4G generally refers to transmission technologies and speeds. Specifically, WiMax and LTE. I’m still holding out for “iPhone HD” branding, but it seems like just about everyone has gone with that including TiVo and iPod competitor Zune.

Thanks for the heads up, Sriram!

6 thoughts on “Rhapsody Survey Reveals iPhone 4 ;)”

  1. That’s iPhone *operating system* number four ( which is already out as an SDK/emulator ).

    Hypertext links in post imply “new” hardware, which is inaccurate – version four of the OS and a new physical handset are NOT synonyms.

    :P

  2. Go to the survey, Todd. They have a separate item for phone OS towards the bottom. This item is specific to hardware. And hopefully it’s obvious this post isn’t to be taken entirely seriously. :)

  3. Dave,
    I was just asked if I wanted to do a Survey on your site, by Crowd Source. Is that legit? Glad to do for you, but not just some pop up

  4. No you haven’t been phished and my site wasn’t hacked, knock on wood, but feel free to participate as you see fit and hopefully it wasn’t much of an intrusion. It’s not directly from me, but from my primary graphical banner ad partner (Technorati Media).

  5. OK Dave, I have to ask, since I am a member of the secret grammar police myself: what minor grammatical gaffe is it that you detected? I don’t see one in the tweet you’ve posted.

  6. It’s not a real grammar critique, as I’m no an expert and this post was supposed to be amusing (although I clearly failed). I was merely referring to 100% of sentences in that tweet ending in exclamation points.

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