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Friday fakes: The best of the bogus
TUAW presents to you the best of the obviously fake device shots we've seen in the last couple of weeks. On occasion they're beautiful renderings that are worth a second glance, other times they're out of focus shots that tipsters swear were taken quickly at a meeting on the Apple campus. In any case, they're a lot of fun.
Let's begin with this gem from the French blog Le Journal du Geek. In a post titled "Encore un peu de MacBook Touch?" ("Again a little MacBook Touch?"), we see what looks like a page from an Apple website:
Next, AppleTell provides us with a teaser shot of some sort of über-iPhone:
Let's begin with this gem from the French blog Le Journal du Geek. In a post titled "Encore un peu de MacBook Touch?" ("Again a little MacBook Touch?"), we see what looks like a page from an Apple website:
This fake is fabulous! It shows the device being about the size of what everyone would like to see, with about a 10" diagonal display. They give it a plausible name instead of the lame "iPad" moniker, the power button is located away from the middle of the device, and the faux photos show it being used with a dock, as a music keyboard in GarageBand, and flipping from landscape to portrait. Very cool, and they even endow the MacBook touch with drool-worthy specs on the website.
Next, AppleTell provides us with a teaser shot of some sort of über-iPhone:
MagSafe charging port? Check. USB port? Ditto. Audio line in/out ports? Affirmative. Reflections below the mockups? You betcha! I don't see an iSight on the front for doing those 4G / Wi-Fi video calls on the Verizon network, but you can't win 'em all.
The next entry has actually been around for months (posted in February on Flickr, then appeared on WiReD.com) but it's so cheesy I just can't keep myself from posting it:
The next entry has actually been around for months (posted in February on Flickr, then appeared on WiReD.com) but it's so cheesy I just can't keep myself from posting it:
Somehow, I just don't see Steve Jobs letting a device with room for 86 or more icons out the door... The guy who put this together has a knack for photoshopping bizarre photos, and this is one of the best joke "iTablets" I've seen simply because it is so absurd.
Another French tech website, Nowhereelse.fr, featured a post with an amazingly good looking fake:
Another French tech website, Nowhereelse.fr, featured a post with an amazingly good looking fake:
There's only one big issue here -- they seem to be mixing their metaphors. The device looks like a big iPhone, has a button in the middle of the bottom bezel like an iPhone, but it's running what appears to be a stock version of Mac OS X 10.5? Nahhhh. We've got to give this one a "magnifique" for the effort put into it, but a "merde" when it comes to reality.
As our closer for this week, here's a full frontal shot! Uh, not that kind of full frontal shot. We received an email with not just one photo of an alleged iPod touch with two cameras -- the regular rear camera and a "frontal cam" -- but a whopping three photos. I love the shiny case on this iPod touch, complete with scratches, since it adds a genuine touch to the photo.
As our closer for this week, here's a full frontal shot! Uh, not that kind of full frontal shot. We received an email with not just one photo of an alleged iPod touch with two cameras -- the regular rear camera and a "frontal cam" -- but a whopping three photos. I love the shiny case on this iPod touch, complete with scratches, since it adds a genuine touch to the photo.
If you happen to come across any good faux photos of iTablets / iPads, iPod touches, AppleTV replacements, a levitating iMac, or anything else you can think of, send it our way. In fact, if you send us a good obvious fake, we may end up posting it here. Let us know about your favorite photo here, and we'll contact you to tell you how to send us your picture.
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Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)
feDe said 10:22AM on 8-21-2009
I hope Apple makes something so much better than these
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rawrawrawr said 10:24AM on 8-21-2009
The one from "Nowhereelse.fr" can be dismissed as a photoshop, in my opinion, since the welcome image on the screen is the exact same screen shot as the first image when doing a google image of leopard welcome screen (http://images.google.com.au/images?hl=en&um=1&ei=qK2OSs-wAsOCkQWEk-S7Cg&sa=X&oi=spell&resnum=0&ct=result&cd=1&q=leopard+welcome+screen&spell=1&start=0)
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feDe said 10:26AM on 8-21-2009
LOL
gib said 10:47AM on 8-21-2009
@ rawrawrawr
Perhaps you were misinformed. They are all Photoshop'ed (sp?). They are all fake. These are "the best of the obviously fake device shots we've seen in the last couple of weeks"...
TÚAW was just showing the ones that looked somewhat decent, unlike these --
http://www.troyangrignon.com/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/picture-79-280x300.png
http://www.iphonesavior.com/images/2008/05/14/ipad_touch_mock_up.jpg
-- or my personal favorite from the iPhone days --
http://www.gosammy.com/wp-content/uploads/2006/12/iphone-mockup.jpg
rawrawrawr said 11:44AM on 8-21-2009
Yeah, don't think I misunderstood the title "Friday Fakes". I was just giving reasoning behind why it is a photoshop.
Gazoobee said 11:31AM on 8-21-2009
Always nice to see good artwork, but as fakes these are all pretty bad. What's up with saying that the MacBook touch one shows a "10 inch screen." Unless those hands are baby hands, that's more like a 15 inch screen.
Kind of funny how most fakers always assume it will have an aluminium case when it's far more likely to be plastic, and desktop OS-X when it's way more likely to be iPhone OS-X. It says more about peoples expectations and wishes than it does about any real product. Just once, I'd like to see a faker make a real, believable fake product instead of just a cool picture.
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quandmeme said 11:33AM on 8-21-2009
The concept via get two things right IMO, the unibody aluminum vs the ipod resin and the SL instead of iPhone OS.
My vote, like others is for the 'chins' on on the portrait like the iPhone instead of on a long edge. I think typing while holding the devise is going to happen in portrait, not landscape.
Bravo. I can't say I'm saving for it, but I am clearing space on credit card. That's my generations version of saving.
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Anonymous said 11:41AM on 8-21-2009
You totally missed this one:
http://www.touchuserguide.com/apple/tablet/2009/08/19/leaked-shot-of-apples-website-showing-macbook-touch/
which almost, sort of validates the one from Nowhereelse.fr. The main problem being the supposed Apple mess up shows one with a metal trim (like the iPhone), while the one on nowhereelse.fr is all black. Of course, there's rumors about prototypes. touchuserguide.com also has supposed leaks of "cocktail" (http://www.touchuserguide.com/apple/tablet/2009/08/20/first-shots-of-cocktail-style-os) and a new dock (http://www.touchuserguide.com/apple/tablet/2009/08/20/new-style-dock-on-the-apple-macbook-touch-tablet). What's interesting is that they seem to show a stock OS X background, yet support app stores apps. It would be quite interesting if the pic on nowhereelse.fr is a prototype of what Apple accidentally posted to their website. Of course, any schmo can set up a local web server and a local hosts file to make www.apple.com resolve to their own system to grab the supposed pictures that touchuserguide.com have... only time will tell
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feDe said 11:59AM on 8-21-2009
Or, they can load their home-made fake web page, and then re-write the url, it's so easy...
Alrey said 11:44AM on 8-21-2009
This is not a fake :)
http://www.flickr.com/photos/superfrunny/3840218783/
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pyrophil542 said 11:52AM on 8-21-2009
I see you probably used an online translator to translate 'Encore un peu de MacBook Touch?'
In context of the article, it just reads 'A little more Macbook Touch?" as if to ask the reader "want more info?" or "looking for more?".
I hate to get on your case, but really, try reading the article (or getting someone else to) instead of looking at the pretty pictures - fake or not.
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Duncan said 1:05PM on 8-21-2009
PLEASE GOD, let the tablet run full OS X, I would gladly shell out $800 for it just as long as you dont cripple it with iPhone OS.
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Duncan said 1:11PM on 8-21-2009
If they do decide to cripple it with the iPhone OS, Im going to buy a PS3 slim and save the rest of my summer work money
sockatume said 5:50PM on 8-21-2009
This was the winner of a Gizmodo photoshop contest a year or two ago. They're using it for illustrative purposes in an article about a rumour they received, it's not the subject of the article. It actually states as much underneath the picture.
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Phoenix said 12:57PM on 8-22-2009
How the hell are you meant to use the keyboard on that giant iPhone...
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