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Apple 'Pal'?

These pictures look real - they look very Apple. If they are a fake, then they're a very elaborate one from someone with way too much time on their hands and way too much talent to be goofing around like this!

I suspect that if Pal does exist, then it's some kind of software that works with iPod to sync your entire home folder onto your iPod, enabling you to log-in to your account via a mounted iPod (NB: not booting from the iPod).

The only dodgy hack I can see with this is that they'll need to hide your Music folder - but doh! all you need is the Terminal app...

It's an unfortunate name - in the UK it sounds like dog food - well I guess Steve Jobs is always saying they eat their own ;)
 
Strike that last guess - it seems this is Apple offering to host a global user account for you to log in from anywhere via the Internet.

Hmm, I wonder how they've resolved the bandwidth issues - logging in over a LAN is slow enough...
 
having seen the images I am skeptical. Although I'd love to see a portable home dir, even though it would be of limited use to me.
 
I've read what you all have to say about this, and yet I still don't have the slightest clue as to what PAL is, exactly?


Is it similar to a disk-on-key USB drive, except that this one is Firewire and keeps a users profile with Address book and bookmarks? If that's all it is, then I don't see it as a big deal. It could be useful if you're looking for a website that you have bookmarked, but otherwise...........
 
Something interesting to note:

On the pal1 pic, you can see a little copyright symbol to the lower right of the green lightbulb. Yet, on all the other pictures, there isn't one at all. Now I'm suspicious.
 
I'm voting FAKE on these. Or they are preliminary comps for.... something. The kerning on the word "Pal" is not tight enough. It does not match other Apple word logos, which have tighter letter spacing.
 
Originally posted by arn
at this point I'm leaning towards fake...

I'll let it run out a little while longer...

arn
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Arn, why are you leaning towards fake?
My thinking was - Why would anybody spend
a lot of time creating art like this for a hoax?
 
Originally posted by dethl
Something interesting to note:

On the pal1 pic, you can see a little copyright symbol to the lower right of the green lightbulb. Yet, on all the other pictures, there isn't one at all. Now I'm suspicious.
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You took the words right out of my mouth. Seems strange they would put it on one shot and not the rest.
 
That's not actually atypical for Apple. The registered symbol often appears on handouts, but not on posters or product box fronts (they often do on the side).

I think the thinking behind that is that copyright info can be written in fine print at the bottom of posters, or on the side of product boxes, but is too distracting on handouts/brochures.
 
Originally posted by Sonofhaig
Arn, why are you leaning towards fake?
My thinking was - Why would anybody spend
a lot of time creating art like this for a hoax?
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Practice.

There are companies out there that will "aqua-ize" your art / images for you.

Nothing like a little free advertising! ;)
 
I'm still confused as to why a *software* solution would include the phrase "connect over the air."

(I'm assuming, obviously, that this utilizes Airport to some extent.)
 
You can use .Mac to sync your bookmarks, calendars and Address Book contacts.
You can use Backup to backup to your iDisk.
Maybe this is the .Mac internet version of a remote home directory. Just like OS X Server does.
I have .Mac, and I use iSync and Backup, but I can't imagine me using some place on the internet for my "Home"....
IMAP, Bookmarks and contacts: OK, but not my personal documents. Still fun, if it's possible.
 
Definitely Fake

If this is a boxed software product then the images ARE FAKE. If you take the image into photoshop and extrapolate the box based on the standard Apple software boxes then this box is too high.
Every current Apple software product box has a 7:8 width to height ratio.
If you look at the positioning of the Apple logo on the Pal box and compare it to say the logo on the keynote or iLife box and then assuming that the Pal logo and text are centred then it is very easy to complete box in the cropped images. And voila, this Pal box is way to narrow, only 5:7, width to height.
And I can't see any reason for Apple changing the box dimensions when they have been the same size for years. Just take a look at the Apple store or compare your own boxes.
 
I think the box theory is a little flawed.

.Mac's box and the Applecare boxes don't match any of the other boxes (ilife, keynote).

they're small and skinny.
 
Originally posted by theFly
Don't have a clue if it's fake or not, but from the description, sounds something like GoToMyPC type service for the Mac, operating via .Mac.

Would be a very nice addition for .Mac subscribers, I'd think.

theFly
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I don't use the .mac service, but if this was something like GoToMyPC, and it was only available throgh .mac, then I might subscribe. I have no laptop yet (still waiting to see what happens at WWDC and shortly thereafter), but there have been plenty of times when I would have liked to access my home computer from somewhere else.

I'm not sure how this service would work, but it might get me to use .mac, if Apple keeps the same price.
 
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