Spymac

Spymac is an web magazine with a community largely composed of Apple Macintosh users.

The site was founded in 2001 as a Macintosh rumor site. One of its early stories concerned the iWalk, an Apple PDA that was supposed to be released on October 23, 2001. The photographs and description were shown to be a hoax, possibly based on the rumors generated by the iPod's development (the iPod was unveiled on the iWalk's purported release date).

Early in 2002, Spymac reported on the upcoming release of a similar product, again called iWalk. This article, complete with video of the supposed device, was not conclusively debunked, but numerous criticisms of the video cast doubt on its authenticity. As of 2004, Apple has not produced a new PDA.

While Spymac has claimed in both cases to be a victim of the hoaxes, many detractors have accused the site of faking the material themselves.

On April 5, 2004, Spymac became the first public web mail client to offer 1 gigabyte of storage. This announcement came days after Gmail's heavily publicized beta launch.