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6G iPod User Interface Redesign and Videos

6G iPod Interface: Real or Fake?

  • Real

    Votes: 80 32.5%

  • Fake

    Votes: 166 67.5%
  • Total voters
    246
basherhp2112 said:
It seems they took the video off of Macrumors, but you can still check it out on YouTube.

Here are a few I found:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ME1jdsQBtWc&mode=related&search=

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GpT9ysl6vjs&mode=related&search=

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SoG-xiyYiQA&mode=related&search=

Enjoy
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Not to be mean, but all of those are fake and not what are being discussed in this thread. There are a few places previously in the thread to get the three relevant videos. Cheers!
 
IIRC Apple's legal department has previously done the "cease and desist" thing on rumors that have proven, after the fact, to be false. So I don't think this necessarily gives any more credence to this report.

But time will tell (please let new iPods come out on 8/7!!).
 
Westside guy said:
IIRC Apple's legal department has previously done the "cease and desist" thing on rumors that have proven, after the fact, to be false.
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Really? I wasn't aware they had done that except with regards to that bogus amp plugin in thing a few years back. Can you elaborate?
ibjoshua
 
If we are assuming it's real, then can anyone explain all the inconsistencies in the video?
Even if it is just a quick creation from inside Apple, then why does the digital clock read 5:55 when the analog reads 4:55.
Why the battery life hiccup?
Why aren't the track listings correct?

I don't think Apple would screw up things as simple as that.
Does anyone have any ideas?
 
i want my click wheel!!!!!!

i have an iphone, but for pure music listening there is nothing that beats the click wheel as a menas for controlling the device WITHOUT HAVING TO LOOK AT IT. seems like all those who want the iphone interface on the ipod are forgetting this.

and, btw: why does everybody cave and remove posts ANY TIME apple as much as sends an email from their bonehead legal department?! freedom of speach anybody??? are we in moskow under putin already?
 
A request for transparency from Arn/Macrumors

arn said:
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so, yes - apple owns the copyright on those videos. Beyond that they may or may not release a product exactly like it.... But historically has meant its a coming product.
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Arn-
One thing that would be interesting to your subscribers (and stop the perception of some sort of collusion) is detailing what exactly transpired today at 3am.

Transparency will help us think you are "one of us" and not "one of them"
Sometimes saying nothing causes people to make up stories when in reality, the actual facts are not scandalous. I have a few questions I respectfully pose to you.

Of course you don't have to answer, but these questions shouldn't violate any gag order Apple may have placed on the original post.

1) Who exactly called you at 3am? An Apple attorney?
2) How long was your initial post on the 6G Ipod up? Do they monitor your site constantly 24/7? It appears so, since within an hour or two, at 3am (!) they woke up an attorney to call you, no?
3) What was their conversation with you? What exactly did you do that was wrong, in their opinion? Maybe it is copyright violation to post their video, but it isn't to state what they told you.
4) What did they threaten if you didn't take down the post?
5) How was Apple even able to find your home number at 3am?
6) Has Apple contacted you before about a posting on your site and asked you to remove it? If so, did you ever say you weren't?
7) In the past 7 years (not necessarily this time), has Apple itself ever directly leaked something to you?
8) Do you think this post came from Apple, but via an intermediary so they can dig out a mole? Has that happened to you before where you rec'd a tip from somewhere which you suspected really to be coming from Apple itself?

I really thank you for all you do on this site, and hope you aren't offended at these questions. I hope you don't delete my account! (Just kidding... I hope..!)
 
It doesn't matter if the tracklisting is wrong or if the clock is not working or the fonts are bad. This could still be a real mockup created by the UI team to come up with the new interface to show their product manager or Steve before they code it.
 
vandlism said:
However, the original videos posted I'm pretty sure had a screen resolution of 320x240. That would lead me to believe that these mockups are actually for a next gen higher resolution iPod nano.
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Now that would make them kinda cool. The Nano getting this sort of treatment seems right. Now way the Nano can be considered a video device by Apple (Perhaps by some phone manufacturers) but giving it more umph makes sense.
 
ibjoshua said:
Really? I wasn't aware they had done that except with regards to that bogus amp plugin in thing a few years back. Can you elaborate?
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I can't because that'd violate my NDA. :D I kid, I kid...

Actually it's just that I've been reading MacRumors for something like 4-5 years now, and I am 99.9% sure I've seen that happen before. It might've been fake reports, or it might've been leaks of old abandoned material that Apple had once considered - but I am quite sure it's happened more than once.

Not to mention that, if I were running Apple Legal, that's exactly what I'd do on occasion just to keep people off balance. :D (I mean, how's a rumor site going to prove that I don't have the legal right to put up a cease and desist against a particular document?)
 
zub3qin said:
It is the track listing for the Cirque de Soleil production of Love in Vegas- not the CD that came out.
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Ooh, even more intriguing! I wonder if a recording of the production version is circulating somewhere; I had no idea it was so different than the soundtrack.
 
pale9 said:
i have an iphone, but for pure music listening there is nothing that beats the click wheel as a menas for controlling the device WITHOUT HAVING TO LOOK AT IT. seems like all those who want the iphone interface on the ipod are forgetting this.
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It also seems that, like all those who support the idea of a click wheel, that this is not necessarily true if, like myself, you have tons of songs and folders that are not close to each other that makes changing on a whim more difficult. I have over two thousand songs and twenty different folders on my iPod and navigating between them all without looking at it is pretty tough.

I for one hope that the new iPods are touch screen. If that config isn't offered, then I'm not getting a new iPod. I seriously hope that those videos apply only to the nano.
 
yg17 said:
So then those vids are all but officially confirmed to be real then?
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Maybe, maybe not (how's that for definitive? :p )

This may not be actual captures of the real iPod, but rather a mockup made by someone in-the-know. That would account for some of the visual discrepancies noticed by people here while explaining why Apple legal would ask that they be removed.
 
zzcoop said:
Why don't I believe you?
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I don't know why you don't. I'm not gonna bother doing the comparison myself but taken from the official site here:


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If this is for real, I've gotta say it looks pretty good. Although my 4th Gen Photo is still going strong so I really can't justify upgrading for at least another year or two. My financial controller (aka wife) just won't hear of it...
 
Looks authentic enough to me, although it's almost certainly a mockup rather than a real, functioning iPod.

To all the people who think it can't be real because there are too many anomalies, I'd ask - have you ever taken a good look at the publicity shots Apple's done over the years for their own site? Because they're mockups and not actual screenshots, they often have anomalies in them, from the minor (a few pixels off here and there) to the surreal (like the "screenshots" that show two or more windows being active at the same time). Heck, even real software has tons of cosmetic glitches in it before it gets released. I've seen prerelease versions of OS X with ugly placeholder graphics, misaligned controls, misspellings in the interface, etc. And who could forget what a mess the Dock was in the earliest publicity shots on Apple.com:



As for a multi-touch 6g iPod being inevitable... I think people need to keep in mind that Apple doesn't have unlimited engineering resources. As it is, they had to postpone Leopard just to get the iPhone out the door on time. I suspect that if they go down the multi-touch path with the iPod, they'll test the waters first with a high end special edition one first, but even that will probably take a while given how much they have on their plate right now. To be honest, as compelling as multi-touch may be on the iPhone, I hope they tread carefully here. I owned one of the 3g iPods with all the touch sensitive buttons, and the memory of how much I hated them is enough to sour me on the idea of a completely virtual click wheel.
 
D'oh! I knew the track listing looked familiar! It's a slightly modified listing of the beginning of disc one of the 1996 Beatles release, "Anthology 3", (which has absolutely NOTHING to do with the LOVE show or soundtrack). I doubt Apple would make a mistake like that... I can't even imagine a faker being so careless. Very odd stuff.
 
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