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Apple Special Event Feb 1st

iNate said:
If this is real, shouldn't the message read "Should old acquaintance be forgotten..." instead of "Should old acquaintance be forgot..."? I guess Apple's done this before with "Think Different," though.

I believe this invitation's fake, but I do think it's very likely that Apple will host an event between now and March.
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Agreed. The wording is weird and confusing.

It took all of 5 seconds looking at it to determine it's an obvious fake. There's a number of imperfections, not to mention the different typeface (no, it's not unheard of for Apple to change it, but still).
 
This is fake.

Apple only says "invitation-only" with a DASH

also there are two periods after "11 a.m.." even if it were the end of a sentence they never put a period after the time abbreviation.

the directions are just lifted from the ipod nano invite

Also the directions typeface is in a completely different font family than the main text -- look at the letter "g"

FAKE!!
 
I'm not sure how events are usually scheduled, but the International Stroke Conference 2007 is already planned at Moscone West for Feb. 2 to 10.

I'm guessing they'll be setting up at least 1 day in advance.

EDIT: Nevermind, turns out, the conference starts on the 6th, meaning the 2nd thru 5th are already reserved for preparation.

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the first thing that popped out to me was the "fuzzy apple". there's no reason why it shouldn't be crisip like all the other invites.
 
Mgkwho said:
In my opinion, Apple's font before the current one was terrible. And in my opinion, this [new?] one is still a good choice. For Apple's sense of style, the "welcome to 2007" banner was an incredible evolution.
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Yes, Apple's current font is great, which is why I said that this invitation wouldn't introduce us to a "new" ugly font.

I'll just say then (since you don't like the font argument) that it's a fake because the entire invitation is plain ugly.
 
iNate said:
If this is real, shouldn't the message read "Should old acquaintance be forgotten..." instead of "Should old acquaintance be forgot..."? I guess Apple's done this before with "Think Different," though.

I believe this invitation's fake, but I do think it's very likely that Apple will host an event between now and March.
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Nope. This is a quote from the song Auld Lang Syne, and the words are "Should old acquaintance be forgot", not "forgotten". It really doesn't have anything to do with "Think Different".

As for the rest, I think that it probably is a fake, though it's a shame because I'd love for there to be an event next week, and the idea behind this invite is really nice, and, as others have noted, suggestive of Time Machine... :)
 
The first line of Auld Lang Syne is:
Should auld acquaintance be forgot...
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That's something Apple would get right.

Secondly, the song 'Auld Lang Syne' is traditionally sung at midnight on New Years Eve. Unless they're celebrating fiscal new year or something, the song reference doesn't clearly fit.

Finally, Apple is not going to send out an invitation for an event in less than a week.

Do we need any more confirmation that it's fake?
 
You'd of thought that if someone was going to try pull a fast one over all of us, they'd at least spend a little more time getting the details right.

This invitation didn't last long at all, so I hope they didn't actually spend too long making it... and I wonder why they didn't, it might have lasted a bit longer that way.
 
Auld Lang Syne

iNate said:
If this is real, shouldn't the message read "Should old acquaintance be forgotten..." instead of "Should old acquaintance be forgot..."? I guess Apple's done this before with "Think Different," though.

I believe this invitation's fake, but I do think it's very likely that Apple will host an event between now and March.
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Not according to the song....
 
DMann said:
Not according to the song....
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In this case, 'Auld' translates to 'Old'

However, the original and technically correct version of the song is 'Should auld acquaintance be forgot.'

'Should old acquaintance be forgot' is a very common, yet totally understandable misinterpretation of the lyrics.

See the wikipedia article I originally linked to.
 
iNate said:
If this is real, shouldn't the message read "Should old acquaintance be forgotten..." instead of "Should old acquaintance be forgot..."? I guess Apple's done this before with "Think Different," though.
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Yeah the grammar is terrible. Although, if they are quoting a song lyric, I suppose it's a different story.
 
Just look at the full-size version that "someone else" posted on flickr, and I think there's no doubt that it's fake:

http://www.flickr.com/photo_zoom.gne?id=370203600&size=o

Aside from everything pointed out already, the lower half looks terrible. It looks cut out from a real website/email and scaled up, including lots of JPEG artifacts that are nowhere else in this PNG image.

As for the fonts, the map uses Myriad (Apple's font du jour), the directions are Lucida Grande, the copy is Gill Sans, and the heading is Helvetica -- with messed up kerning. Even if you believe that Apple wants to change its corporate typeface, would they really do it like this? No way.

So I wouldn't get my hopes up for February 1st based on this alone. Next time, wannabe hoax masterminds, give us some credit and try not to make it look like your first time doing this ... please? :)
 
monke said:
A little Time Machine-ish.


Google'd the quote, and one link led to this. Happens to be an excerpt from the song 'Days of long ago' by Auld Lang Syne.

Thoughts?
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where are you from??? everyone i know knows that song...... they sing it everywhere nye's (new york city stuff, most bars near me)
 
I'm not sure why everyone is so quick to write this off. At the end of his last keynote Jobs specifically said, "see you soon." It's been almost a month so his window for "soon" is quickly running closing.
 
butaro said:
where are you from??? everyone i know knows that song...... they sing it everywhere nye's (new york city stuff, most bars near me)
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I know the song but it's not traditionally sung here - we traditionally ring in the New Year by trying our hardest to blow up Sydney with fireworks.

And the invitation is a fake, I've seen enough of these now to know the fakes. That one just looks wrong.
 
fake

Take a simple look at the high-quality image on Flickr.

In the top portion, the text looks perfectly clear... in the bottom, where the directions are, it looks totally fuzzy.

FAKE !
 
kuebby said:
I'm not sure why everyone is so quick to write this off. At the end of his last keynote Jobs specifically said, "see you soon." It's been almost a month so his window for "soon" is quickly running closing.
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It's too close, normally the larger media outlets such as MacWorld or, if it's iPod-related, iLounge.com will have received invitations with a week to ten days of lead-time, seeing as nothing has come out and it's Friday in the states I would presume the date is a fake.

The invitation looks appalling - nothing like any of the past invitations - it just has no consistent style and the fonts are all over the place. The lack of Myriad Pro is a dead give away. Apple simply don't use those fonts, they don't.

I'd believe February 20th more than Feb 1st but so far there is no compelling evidence as to either of them.
 
I think that this is fake. If you look at the large version of the invitation on Flickr, you can see that the bottom isn't as clear as the top is. Also, the 2px grey border around the bottom is only a 1px border around the top. The :apple: is blurry at the bottom. As someone also said, Apple doesn't use a double period after a.m. and they put a dash between invitation only. Finally, the e-mail address is normally rsvp_something@apple.com, not events@apple.com.
 
Totally fake. In addition to all the reasons pointed out previously, why would Apple have two periods after a time in one sentence...

Event on February 1st at 11 a.m..

...and on the VERY next sentence use only a single period to end the sentence...

Registration begins at 10 a.m.
 
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