--- title: Joan Rivers' Facebook Promotes iPhone 6 by Accident description: The posthumous post was quickly deleted canonical: https://time.com/3415150/joan-rivers-iphone-6-facebook-post/ author: Nolan Feeney article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2014-09-21T20:25:39.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-08-19T07:41:32.596Z og:title: Joan Rivers' Facebook Promotes iPhone 6 og:description: The comedian icon appeared to post from beyond the grave og:url: https://time.com/3415150/joan-rivers-iphone-6-facebook-post/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt1a5ec47e2cac77f5/6986a48b55a8597c84a82b2b/4645124511.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 1703 og:image:height: 958 og:image:alt: 92nd Street Y Presents: An Evening With Joan And Melissa Rivers og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Joan Rivers' Facebook Promotes iPhone 6 twitter:description: The comedian icon appeared to post from beyond the grave twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt1a5ec47e2cac77f5/6986a48b55a8597c84a82b2b/4645124511.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # Joan Rivers Promotes iPhone 6 on Facebook From Beyond the Grave > Sponsored content. 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Take A Look Back at Apple's 7 Biggest Product Releases_  by [Nolan Feeney](https://time.com/author/nolan-feeney/)  ## Nolan Feeney Sep 21, 2014 8:25 PM UTC  The late Joan Rivers in New York, Jan. 22, 2014. The late Joan Rivers in New York, Jan. 22, 2014. D Dipasupil—FilmMagic/Getty Images  by [Nolan Feeney](https://time.com/author/nolan-feeney/)  ## Nolan Feeney Sep 21, 2014 8:25 PM UTC The late comedy icon Joan Rivers, who died Sept. 4 at age 81 from complications from throat surgery, gave her fans one last surprise on Friday when her [Facebook account promoted the new Apple iPhone 6](http://www.tmz.com/2014/09/19/joan-rivers-iphone-6-facebook-instagram/?utm%5Fmedium=twitter&utm%5Fsource=twitterfeed) with a posthumous post. The update called the new iPhone 6 a “great achievement in design” before it was quickly removed. Sites like TMZ speculate that the post was the result of a deal with Apple negotiated before her death. As TIME critic Richard Corliss [wrote in his obituary](http://time.com/3212274/joan-rivers-dead-81-remembrance/), “If Joan Rivers can no longer talk, she deserves to be talked about forever.” Facebook seems to be doing its part to make that happen. Here’s the full text of the post: --- > “” --- \[[_TMZ_](http://www.tmz.com/2014/09/19/joan-rivers-iphone-6-facebook-instagram/?utm%5Fmedium=twitter&utm%5Fsource=twitterfeed)\] ## Transcript [00:00] [ MUSIC ] [00:05] You've just seen some pictures of Macintosh. Now I'd [00:09] like to show you Macintosh in person. And [00:24] this is what the front of it looks like boom! That's an [00:26] iPod. I happen to have one right here in my pocket as [00:28] a matter of fact. There it is right there. It's [00:34] so thin, it even fits inside one of these envelopes that [00:38] we've all seen floating around the office. And so, let [00:41] me go ahead and show it to you now. This [00:49] is the new MacBook Air. [ MUSIC ] See [00:54] the photographs, read the story. It's that simple. Let [00:57] me go to another website, here. Now, let's go to Time [01:00] Magazine. See what's up in Time's website. [ MUSIC ] [01:07] Just [01:11] flick through the website, see what's happening. [01:17] IPhone four is so much more. Then just [01:21] another new product. I mean this will have a lasting [01:26] impact on the way that we actually connect with each [01:29] other. Today we're going to introduce iPhone 5. 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