By really late, I actually mean, it hasn’t shown up at all. Nor has Steve Jobs.

This doesn’t bode well for France Telecom (the owners of Orange) who stated a while back that they had already come to an agreement with Apple and they would be carrying the iPhone. The show lasts from the 25th to the 29th, so maybe Steve is just holed up playing Halo 3 and doesn’t want to come out and make the announcement yet, regardless though, this could be bad new le bears.

So many theories are rolling around, such as Apple being angry about Frances iPod law, or there never having been a deal between Apple and Orange. Its so sad that MacGeneration from France had to give their best of show award to the iPod Touch. Another thing that is interesting is that even though there hasn’t been an official release of the iPhone in France, there are apparently no shortage of iPhones among attendees and normal Parisians, with all of them being hacked.Apple iPhone a No-Show in Paris [via Apple 2.0]