APPLE HAS moved to suppress comments on its bulletin boards that point out that its new iPhone cannot handle 64-bit Windows Vista or XP.

That comes as others say the shiny bling phone is hackable.

According to Engadget, punters had been complaining that when ever they tried this they kept getting an error message: “The software required for iPhone is not installed. Run the iTunes installer to remove iTunes, then install iTunes again.”

However, this does not work, and if iTune users had looked carefully at Apple’s support article 301301 they would have seen that “iTunes is currently not supported in Windows XP Professional x64 Edition or any 64-bit edition of Windows Vista.” Now you know.

Also Apple’s official minimum system requirements document does say that “64-bit editions of Windows are not supported.”

What is a little more surprising is that a thread discussing this topic was pulled from the Apple web site.

More information [The Inquirer]