14 DAY TRIAL // Apple rumor sites often get accused of making a big deal out of anything and pulling reports out of thin air and nothing looks like a better example than the 'iPhone Extreme.'
People want bigger, better iPhones, this is perfectly clear, but the question is whether they want them bad enough to see them even where there are none. After the initial reports of Apple's feedback site for the iPhone having a HTML string referring to an 'iPhone Extreme' product, it did not take long for it to be branded as completely irrelevant. The two most popular explanations was a sloppy coding job where the Airport extreme feedback page was copy-pasted and a batch replace from Airport to iPhone left the Extreme behind.
While an overlooked remnant of previous HTML code sounds entirely plausible, this does not appear to be the case. The feedback pages for the iPhone and Airport Extreme are not similar enough for it to have been a matter of a simple copy-paste. Furthermore, 9to5 Mac reports that a little digging with the Wayback Machine turned up a version of the iPhone feedback page from late July, which is otherwise the identical except for the 'Extreme.' The only logical conclusion is that a HTML coder actually went in there and purposefully added it in. Last but not least, like with all Apple rumors, the most important feedback comes from Apple itself. Reports of the 'iPhone Extreme' began surfacing yesterday and today, the iPhone feedback form has already been modified, with the Extreme moniker being gone.
Of course all this does not exactly prove that Apple is secretly planning a new and improved version of the iPhone, although they have already openly admitted to that. Undoubtedly the company has big plans for the iPhone and there are many ways that the product line could grow in the future, whether the 'Extreme' will be part of that or just a code joke on all Apple centric sites remains to be seen.