The Angry Drunk

Amidst the generic sense of rage that the whole JizzmodoPhone deba­cle has engen­dered in me, I find myself amused by one thing. I find it hilar­i­ous that a large chunk of the tech media now uncrit­i­cally accepts that the phone that Jizzmodo has in it’s pos­ses­sion is com­pletely, and with­out any pos­si­bil­ity of change, the phone that Apple will intro­duce this summer.

Let’s ana­lyze this assump­tion in detail. First, let’s go ahead and assume that this phone isn’t some sort of nefar­i­ous Apple PR stunt (because it isn’t you rubes), and let’s fur­ther assume that it is a pro­to­type of a future Apple iPhone. Why is it, other than sheer igno­rance, that peo­ple assume that this phone, in it’s exact con­di­tion, is the next gen­er­a­tion iPhone?

Of course, the answer is actu­ally fairly sim­ple. Most “tech jour­nal­ists” have about as much under­stand­ing of actual tech­nol­ogy as my cocker spaniel. For the unini­ti­ated, there are three gen­eral areas that would need to be pro­to­typed for a new iPhone: the elec­tron­ics, the oper­at­ing sys­tem and the remain­ing hard­ware. In a nor­mal man­u­fac­tur­ing process all three of these items would be pro­to­typed sep­a­rately with a very small num­ber of final pro­to­types rep­re­sent­ing the

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