Steve Jobs Says iPhone 4 is on Track for July Release in Canada

Our “cousin” site, iPhoneinCanada.ca, reported yesterday morning that one of their readers sent Steve Jobs an email, asking if the iPhone 4 would be delayed in Canada, due to the high demand in the US. In classic Steve Jobs style, the reply was “Nope.”.

Here’s a screen shot of the email (click to enlarge):

And here’s the email headers:

Received: from mail-out3.apple.com (mail-out3.apple.com [17.254.13.22])by mtain-db03.r1000.mx.aol.com (Internet Inbound) with ESMTP id D3AC638000090for ; Sat, 26 Jun 2010 19:38:48 -0400 (EDT)Received: from relay16.apple.com (relay16.apple.com [17.128.113.55])by mail-out3.apple.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7A1799A296ADfor ; Sat, 26 Jun 2010 16:38:47 -0700 (PDT)X-AuditID: 11807137-b7b43ae000004f8e-f3-4c268f8760e7Received: from earhart.apple.com (yeager.apple.com [17.150.10.19])by relay16.apple.com (Apple SCV relay) with SMTP id F2.8E.20366.78F862C4; Sat, 26 Jun 2010 16:38:47 -0700 (PDT)Date: Sat, 26 Jun 2010 16:38:46 -0700

From: Steve JobsSubject: Re: iPhone 4In-reply-to: <8CCE39E31C6DA4D-1A5C-B935@webmail-m031.sysops.aol.com>To: lukexxxx@aim.comMessage-id: <7A7DB9C5-90C7-48CA-9195-2D4E223E3448@apple.com>MIME-version: 1.0X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.1081)Content-type: text/plain; charset=us-asciiContent-transfer-encoding: 7BITReferences: <8CCE39E31C6DA4D-1A5C-B935@webmail-m031.sysops.aol.com>X-Brightmail-Tracker: AAAAAQAAAZE=x-aol-global-disposition: GX-AOL-SCOLL-SCORE: 0:2:446105184:93952408X-AOL-SCOLL-URL_COUNT: 0x-aol-sid: 3039ac1d40574c268f884a96X-AOL-IP: 17.254.13.22

Nope.

On Jun 26, 2010, at 4:26 PM, lukexxxx@aim.com wrote:

Has the Canadian iPhone 4 release date been pushed back to august due to such high demand in the U.S.?

So, is this a real email from Steve, or could this be a fabrication? I suppose anything can be spoofed. Steve Jobs’ email is pretty public, as well as other replies he has given. Typically, they are followed be “Sent from my iPhone”, though.

In Apple’s official press release about iPhone 4, they said iPhone 4 would be in Canada before the end of July, so let’s hope this was an actual reply, and I can go get back in line.