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Apple Chief Financial Officer Peter Oppenheimer’s decision to warn financial analysts Monday that Apple’s fourth-quarter gross margins will be negatively impacted by a “product transition” should be enough to get the rumor wheels turning: of course, it doesn’t take all that much. The remark came within yet another Apple’s earnings report that produced stellar numbers for the previous quarter but an outlook below what Wall Street had been expecting.

Oppenheimer deftly avoided several questions from analysts who tried to get a little more information on just what that “product transition” might involve. He used the exact same phrase last year in July during an earnings call to warn analysts of pretty much the exact same situation: that the transition would cause lower profits for the upcoming quarter. The result? New iMacs in August, and the iPod Touch in September.

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The line for the Apple iPhone 3G began to form Friday–an entire week before the device goes on sale.

Frankly, one shouldn’t encourage such behavior by actually covering it. But if I were in Manhattan–instead of Austin, Texas–I, too, would have interviewed them in person by now.

The queue outside of Apple’s Fifth Avenue store, covered first by GearDiary and then Engadget, apparently hasn’t been formed by iPhone co-dependents, though.

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This picture is said to be the first that shows the actual new iPhone from Apple. Call it iPhone 2 or iPhone 3G, CrunchGear claims it’s the real thing, which not only sports
3G (really now, was there any doubt?) but also offers support for iChat. The service will allegedly be launched for Windows users too.

The tech-based web site claims the images are from a tipster who has previously leaked them solid proof of the existence of new Apple products (the third-gen iPod nano). The new iPhone, as shown in the AT&T promotional material, is slimmer (an aspect already “confirmed” by earlier rumors), it will come in different colors (no mention whether black and red are the only ones), it will sport video chatting and more.
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