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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
Argent117 said:
The font is Helvetica Neue Bold, which is also used on the iPhone GUI. Arial is a cheap, imitation variant of Helvetica.

But I think it's a fake, too.
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Yup, doesn't change the fact that the title fonts are way smaller than the content fonts... Uhm...

And look at that screwed up antialiasing on the content box in the "Now Playing" movie. Not to mention that the battery life totally changes from menu mode to fullscreen mode.

FAKE!!
 
Sloppy.

Nicely arranged OS X clocks:
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Cheesy clock numbers from video:
Picture 1.png

At Apple they know how to draw circles :p
 
Padriac said:
Whether these are specifically "true" or "fake", I think the deeper debate is whether the next iPods are "iPhones without the phones" or not.

My bet is "not". I think people need to get used to that idea. Apple is not going to "throw out" the iPod and it's hardware/software design and ecosystem just for the iPhone interface... the iPhone's success was an unknown quantity when the new iPods were being designed. I think Apple may let the iPhone ecosystem build over time and *then* piggyback a new iPod interface on top of that existing structure, but they won't jump in headfirst with no safety net. The iPod IS their cash cow which causes them to play it rather safe when it comes to updates.
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I tend to agree with that. Also for the people hoping for iPods with wifi and all the PDA-type functionality like Safari, I don't think we'll ever see that. Sure you can make the argument that a touchscreen/widescreen music-focused iPod won't cannibalize iPhone sales, but I think it's a much surer bet that an iPod with Wifi and Safari, Maps, YouTube and widgets most definitely would cannibalize iPhone sales.

Apple has always been about carefully segmenting users and forcing them to go for the more expensive option if they wanted just one extra feature. Like back in the PowerBook/iBook days, if you wanted screen spanning, you had to go with the PowerBook.

I think eventually we'll see a unified platform/interface for iPhones and iPods. It just makes too much sense from a development cost perspective. Have a single internal API to build to and you can reuse code so much more easily. I think Apple is simply in a transition mode right now but that has to be the holy grail of OS X.
 
ok so i dunno if this is fake or not, but everyone is talking about how this might be the 6G ipod, but no one has thought maybe this is for the rumored iPhone nano.

makes sense when you think about it... the next ipod is supposed or at least i thought was to be more like the iphone interface sans the phone and more storage. all the rumors of the iphone nano point to a smaller phone that is more phone that ipod, but more a classical ipod than on the current iphone. plus theres stuff about how the iphone nano might use a click wheel.

does anyone else think like me or am i just being retarded, lol
 
Not an Apple UI

Simple facts like it using something like Arial instead of Apple Myriad are convincing enough for me, but this is really not like an Apple UI at all. The fonts seem much bigger than I would expect, bigger it seems than the 5G out now. Also, how were these recorded? If this was really an amateur with one in their hands, don't you think it would simply be somebody holding a video camera while doing this? I mean, tapping the screen directly is not an easy. If they were produced by Apple, why are they not longer and actually demonstrate features? Look at the Leopard movies for example.

The whole variable-width split screen is awful. Why does the clock app take up 50% each, and the other menus take up more like 80/20?

Absolutely fake.
 
Fake. Checkout the worldclock video at the 18 second mark.



Accra is a couple seconds AHEAD of Addis Ababa.

Also, this clock graphic shows a Rolex-esque sweeping hand. The iPhone's clocks currently depict a graphic of a second hand that 'ticks'.
 
100% Fake

Check out the World Clock video and watch when the two times "Accra" and "Addis Ababa" at the end. Both labels on the right side say 5:55am. Its been a while since I've read an analog clock but I'm pretty sure neither says 5:55am, more like 4:55 and 9:55. This was obviously made by a youngster who grew up with only digital clocks. Also the second hands are slightly different from one another between the two, which makes no sense. There's a number of other small inconsistencies too, some of which other people have pointed out, that shows these videos are indeed 100% fake.

That said, they are well done and look nice. Wish I had time to make such neat things. Wonder how long it took them to put it together. This could have been made with Flash like another person mentioned.

Is there actually anyway to get a recording of the iPod screen?
 
Although it would be cool if Apple did the bounce-in cover art. I really liked that detail for some reason. More animation would be cool.
 
I have money set a side waiting for the the next ipod. I am hoping it is going to be like the the iphone. But if is is just a refresh of 5g ipod with a prettier interface I will be really disappointed. Now with the bigger screen on the iphone the 5g ipod seems so small. I may have to find a 5g ipod on ebay instead.
 
angelwatt said:
Check out the World Clock video and watch when the two times "Accra" and "Addis Ababa" at the end. Both labels on the right side say 5:55am. Its been a while since I've read an analog clock but I'm pretty sure neither says 5:55am, more like 4:55 and 9:55. This was obviously made by a youngster who grew up with only digital clocks.
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Actually the iPod and iPhone do this. It makes sense to put AM/PM indicators in a world clock.
 
Maybe someone knew the new design and copied it to demonstrate.

It seems like it is an interface that "makes sense," but I agree the videos seem to have mistakes.

They do need to keep click wheel IMHO because it makes things like scrolling through a song or podcast so much easier than that silly and tiny slide bar on the iphone.
 
cmoney said:
Didn't you know there are some time zones that are seconds off GMT?
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hahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha

angelwatt said:
Check out the World Clock video and watch when the two times "Accra" and "Addis Ababa" at the end. Both labels on the right side say 5:55am. Its been a while since I've read an analog clock but I'm pretty sure neither says 5:55am, more like 4:55 and 9:55.
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Im not sure I get what you mean... AM/PM labels are represented fine. This is in 12-hour format.

*EDIT* Ah yes.. they both show 5:55 when one SHOULD say 9:55. Nice catch
 
I hope it's fake!!!

Well I am not a master or flash man. But I hope you are all right about this being fake... I have been waiting it seems like 2 FREAKIN YEARS for a Widescreen iPod, and if they pull this, as huge of an Apple fan I am, I have to say i will be pretty PISSED!!! The thing that scares me is the point of the scroll wheel iPod games which i think is a point, and Apple not wanting to canibalize the iPhone. On the other hand, what gives me hope is that order for the multi-touch screens that was placed. Those have to be for the iPod.

By the way... if they make an iPhone Nano with a scroll wheel, I think that will be stupid. Not to mention how many versions of OS X do we really think Apple has made for crying out loud LOL??? All these different kinds of iPods and iPhones that people are talking are different and would have delayed Leopard even more I'm sure.

You people that think the 6G iPod will be an iPhone without the phone seriously need to get your heads checked. Your telling me that if you ran Apple you would make that kind of a business decision??? There is NO WAY IN HELL Apple will make the 6G iPod like that LOL, it would be HORRIBLE for the iPhone. I hope you guys are never the C.E.O. of an important company lol. And even if you were the board would never let you make decisions that stupid and vote you out :p
 
raykhrud said:
Fake makers were dumb. Compare what you see in this video and here, on official Love track list:
"Because"
"Get Back"
"Glass Onion"
"Eleanor Rigby"
"Julia (Transition)"
"I Am the Walrus"
"I Want To Hold Your Hand"
"Drive My Car/The Word/What You're Doing"
"Gnik Nus"
"Something"
"Blue Jay Way (Transition)"
"Being for the Benefit of Mr. Kite!/I Want You (She's So Heavy)/Helter Skelter"
"Help!"
"Blackbird/Yesterday"
"Strawberry Fields Forever"
"Within You Without You/Tomorrow Never Knows"
"Lucy in the Sky With Diamonds"
"Octopus's Garden"
"Lady Madonna"
"Here Comes the Sun"
"The Inner Light (Transition)"
"Come Together/Dear Prudence"
"Cry Baby Cry (Transition)"
"Revolution"
"Back in the U.S.S.R."
"While My Guitar Gently Weeps"
"A Day in the Life"
"Hey Jude"
"Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band (Reprise)"
"All You Need Is Love"
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Good catch!!..Some of the songs listed in the video are not on the album Love.

Fake.
 
Eventually, we will see a true video iPod. To do this, the screen needs to be bigger like the iPhone. The only way to accomplish this, is with a touch screen system.

As for the interface, as others have pointed out, there are inconsistencies. My guess, Fake.
 
i'm assuming that the iPods will be released the same day as the new iMacs... and since the new iMacs are rumoured to feature a new "metal" look, i'm sure the iPods will also follow suite... would be alike a big iPod Nano... very exciting...

however, i'd be surprised if these videos were real... i just can't see Apple choosing to display coverart on a random slant as depicted in this video... unless of-course that's what the cover looks like, in which case i'm just ignorant... you know what i mean :p
 
cmoney: great post. I completely agree and couldn't have said it better myself... thought I'd reiterate some of what you mentioned:

cmoney said:
I think it's a much surer bet that an iPod with Wifi and Safari, Maps, YouTube and widgets most definitely would cannibalize iPhone sales.
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Yeh, it's all about building brands. What makes the "i" in iPhone is the Internet features. What makes the iPod so successful is its simplicity—a lot of people don't need all those features, they just want a portable walkman. There's not a lot of fluff and you get exactly what's advertised—an easy-to-use, great music (and video) player.

Have a single internal API to build to and you can reuse code so much more easily. I think Apple is simply in a transition mode right now but that has to be the holy grail of OS X.
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Yeh... I think we'll see a lot more of Apple's OS X technologies in its portable devices for sure. It's not only reusing code, it's reusing the same/similar hardware components in different products. In this way you can purchase these en masse for a much greater discount. Part of the reason the iPhone is so full featured is the component cost. It's not because you want to do CoverFlow or Safari on the phone, it's because you might as well because the technology is there—that's one of the reasons why we don't see a touchscreen/OS X iPod yet for half the price of an iPhone... Apple can't realistically build that model to make its margins. It's really the UI part that makes it so pricey.

Apple has always been about carefully segmenting users and forcing them to go for the more expensive option...
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I agree about segmenting but Apple is arguably not forcing anyone into a feature... it's more about selecting which hardware is going to most benefit its intended market. For multiple monitors, in your example, most casual users don't need/run more than one anyway. In that clear-cut simplicity, you can't always please everyone—but that's what makes Apple so successful is you know exactly what you're getting. Vista has a handful of flavors with a myriad array of choices—Mac OS X has one flavor.
 
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