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1. ZinkDifferent

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   08/22, 10:15am | report spam | close reply

   I doubt...

   ...very much that Apple would 'innovate' by essentially copying the 'design' of a cheap Chinese knock off of the iPod:
   
   http://www.greatfine.com/110.asp?id=179
   
   Nice try from the original source.

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1. mgpalma

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   08/22, 10:38am | report spam | close reply

   Yuck!

   This is one ugly piece of cr*p!
   
   I don't buy it.

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1. njfuzzy

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   08/22, 10:40am | report spam | close reply

   "iPob Vedio"

   lol, nice catch
   
   I have seen two sets of rumors about this new iPod nano, though. I think it will turn out to be smaller than we think, and look slicker, but I do think it's real.

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1. usingpond

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   08/22, 10:46am | report spam | close reply

   pretty obvious fake

   I mean come on. Just look at the newbish Photoshop layer effect. Apple would never sink that low. Also, in what situation would an original print ad PSD be left open unattended on a computer screen? Especially this early in development?
   
   Using a little common sense can really work itself out pretty well.

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1. testudo

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   08/22, 10:51am | report spam | close reply

   uh

   Does it bother anyone that the photo is a picture of a photoshop document? Or are they playing the "Well, if we just sent out the picture, people would think it would be fake, but if we photograph a picture of the photoshop document, they would think that it would be too obvious, thus it must be real!"
   
   And exactly why do we need wider iPod nanos? Or is it Apple's goal to basically force video onto its users?
   
   And can someone explain how these much wider then current ipods somehow are bigger "without boosting the overall size?" Because they look way bigger then my nano.

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1. JeffHarris

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   08/22, 11:01am | report spam | close reply

   FUGLY

   As we say in China... Foo Glai!
   
   Here's one vote for Photoshop.

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1. lockhartt

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   08/22, 11:05am | report spam | close reply

   here's why it's not real

   Look at the spacing and positioning of each "nano" with respect to the others... it's not uniform, and it's not right.
   
   Not only wouldn't a professional artist have the spacing uniform, but Steve would be having an OCD tizzy all over the place :)

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1. lockhartt

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   08/22, 11:07am | report spam | close reply

   double negative

   Note to self, always proofread before hitting submit :)
   
   Should have said "Not only would a professional artist..."
   
   Blah

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1. malax

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   08/22, 11:23am | report spam | close reply

   fake

   All that's missing it a Zune Brown as part of the alleged spectrum of new crappy colors.

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1. brijackmac2

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   08/22, 11:35am | report spam | close reply

   Click Button

   Doesn't the click buttons in the middle of the scroll wheels look odd, the lighting looks wrong. Each one the highlight areas are on the bottom of each nano. I'm not sure if Apple goes to this much detail to get the lighting right for grouped photos or not. Looks fake to me.

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1. brijackmac2

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   08/22, 11:43am | report spam | close reply

   shadows

   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.

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1. Flying Meat

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   08/22, 11:47am | report spam | close reply

   two words

   Shah Doh!

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1. Jonaziz

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   08/22, 11:49am | report spam | close reply

   re: Flower layout

   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.

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1. brijackmac2

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   08/22, 02:23pm | report spam | close reply

   re: flower layout

   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.

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1. Herod

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   08/22, 02:47pm | report spam | close reply

   interesting

   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.

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1. testudo

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   08/22, 05:34pm | report spam | close reply

   Re: i agree

   The backlash against intrusive advertising will be tides of people using ad blocking technology.
   
   What? There's people NOT using ad blocking software now?

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1. starwarrior

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   08/22, 06:23pm | report spam | close reply

   Short and stubby

   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.

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1. bloggerblog

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   08/22, 06:44pm | report spam | close reply

   total bs

   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.

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1. Commodus

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   08/22, 10:41pm | report spam | close reply

   Confirmed by Gizmodo!

   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.

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1. testudo

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   08/23, 07:57am | report spam | close reply

   Re: confirmed

   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).

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1. ender

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   08/24, 11:45pm | report spam | close reply

   Re: shadows

   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.

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1. Pele137

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   08/26, 01:27am | report spam | close reply

   its most likely fake

   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.

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1. dliup

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   08/28, 02:17pm | report spam | close reply

   hum...

   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.