Shadows don't look right either. I think who ever made this gets some of Apple's style down but gets it all wrong. Flower layout now seems to be for iLife and iWork software packages, not hardware.

Shah Doh!

I think this is fake, but as for the flower layout being software? No way. The iMac G3 did it, the iPod Mini did it, and the current nano has even done it a few times on the Apple site. Apple would do this again foreseeably, but I think these things look bad, and would feel bad.

Maybe I wasn't clear enough, the flower layout was originally used on the iMac (color versions) and on other previous hardware ads. As of now, the only layout that follows the flower layout is iLife and iWork. These things cycle through and was just something I noticed as not being consistent. The nano will eventually be revised or updated.

these look almost more like translucent resin mock-ups rather than something manufactured.

but yeah, that green one is completely off center, and i don't think there was any photoshop work done here at all.

looks like a crappy digital image.

The backlash against intrusive advertising will be tides of people using ad blocking technology.

What? There's people NOT using ad blocking software now?

Sorry

Have you ever watched the ladies caress and fondle their Ipods in a quiet moment.

Short and stubby is not what they are thinking about.

I bet.

That's not the new ipod, the new ipod will have an iphone like interface. furthermore, why would apple make the nano look like the video.

Apple's legal department had the Giz take down its copy of the photos. If they're not actual images, then they're close enough to spook the lawyers.

Apple's legal department had the Giz take down its copy of the photos. If they're not actual images, then they're close enough to spook the lawyers.

Or (a) the photos are obvious copies of Apple's Trademark iPod look, and, therefore, warrant takedown,

or (b) the lawyers were stuck on the case by Apple to make people THINK these are the new ipods, thus causing more surprise when the new nanos do appear that are longer and thinner then the current ones

or (c) the lawyers have no clue, but, being on retainer, notice what could be something that shouldn't be out there, and, doing their job protecting Apple's IP (like secretive apple would tell lawyers what their new products are?), file papers to get the documents removed. (The site says its photos of Apple's new iPod, so, to the lawyers, that's reason enough to go after them).

The shadows are all in a different direction. Apple would use a consistent light source location. Except for the black one, every iPod in the photo has it's shadow going down and to the right relative to the iPod if you were looking at it right-side up (ie, all the shadows go in a clock-wise direction). So each iPod is being lighted from it's upper left corner. But then the center button is shaded as if the light source was in line with long axis. It's as if they made one PS mockup and then cloned it three times, including the shadow. Then the changed the colors and rotated (along with the shadow) and arranged them in the flower pattern.

Also, if Apple were going to color the black (dark gray?) iPod's click wheel to match the body, wouldn't they have colored the other ones to match as well? Not to mention that the black one's shadow it also completely different from the rest of them. So they probably had to make a separate mock-up of that one because of the different color click wheel (so they couldn't just clone the other ones).

Overall, pretty amateur stuff.

when apple takes photos of product for production to be posters in stores an adverts, the items are set together perfectly. the spaces between each ipod in the "sunflower" aren't the same. it isnt neatly put together for the photo.

iPod 30GB, 2.5" display with LED backlight, $250. Zen 16GB $300.

iPod can output video, this knockoff can't.

zen = 11.3 mm thick, iPod 30GB = 10.9 mm thin

Enough said.