My mother always told me there were two golden rules about the internet: one, never presume someone else will get your jokes, and two, everyone online is a dangerous pervert. While I’m not entirely sure her second sweeping generalisation is accurate, the wisdom of the first has been proved once again. At the weekend, talk started regarding iPhone software house Tiny Code and their apparent leap to legitimacy thanks to a deal with Apple in advance of the cellphone’s SDK. Now, “Kelly” from Tiny Code has revealed that the whole thing was a prank.
“Tiny-Code never had any relations with Apple, Inc. or any other division of Apple. Never had the new firmware or any pre-SDK pack. Certainly never signed any NDA. I find it interesting that a simple joke on the front of a minor at best Installer.app repo can cause so many wakes. It is equivocally funny that a simple re-enforcement of the page by me posted earlier stating I had been ‘reprimanded’ by Apple could throw it even more into believability. To top it all off, a simple redirection of the domain to Apple’s iPhone Developer center would cause so many theories as to why that is so when it was to just stop the ‘where did it go’ questions” Kelly, Tiny Code
If anything, Kelly’s apparent surprise that an Apple rumor would run away with itself seems a little naive; has he not been following the company – and its fans – at all? He’s yet to give any particular reason for the joke, and is probably unlikely to any time soon.
What’s a safe bet is that Apple actually is prepping firmware 1.1.4 and the iPhone SDK; we just now know that Tiny Code have no part in it.
[via Macenstein]
Seems suspicious. Apple may have asked him to claim the whole thing to be a prank to discredit widespread rumors of its impending release.
Doesn’t this seem like a bizarre joke to make?
A massively bizarre joke, yes, but then again perhaps this is just another case of a different sense of humour not being “understood”. I agree, though, it could be viewed as suspicious.