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Apple Special Event Feb 1st

one more reason...

Aside from the leading and line-spacing and font problems, and aside from the wrong RSVP address, there is a non-optional hyphen missing from the phrase "invitation only." (Apple doesn't make mistakes like that -- look at the old invites.)

Clearly this forger is not, to put it mildly, "details oriented."
 
Its all wrong

Reading thread with interest.

I think its a fake for a number of reasons. Apple uses the word "old" instead of auld so if they were quoting the robert burns poem they got this wrong if they were not quoting it they would have written forgotton and not forgot. I detail I think apple would have got correct.

The poor quality could be due to compression of a scanned image but the shading on the bottom right of the apple logo is not consistent with this. It looks like it has been masked badly onto the image.

The lack of event on the centers web site could be apples secrecy but the thing that turns really shows it is fake is the fact the bottom of the invite with directions to the Moscone Section is an excact copy of a previous invite and at a closer look in photoshop the edges are not consistent.
 
beehop said:
the one i recieved looked alot different.
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LOL!

Chundles said:
Oh so you got the one for the original Newton then?
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Even "LOL-ier"!

K, so we're agreed, then. This is fake.

As for my own little observance: the previous invites that arn posted don't use ordinals (like 1st, 5th, etc...) Apple simply says something like 'November 11' It's the ordinal that's causing the krunked up line spacing.... almost as though it was created in Word.... hmmm....
 
Obviously Fake

This is obviously a fake:
  • Wrong reply address
  • Wrong font
  • Wrong venue--Apple holds press events in Cupertino
  • Wrong venue--Moscone is book up that day
  • Wrong date--it's too late to announce a public event, which it would be if it were at Moscone
  • Wrong lyrics--it is "Should auld aquaintance be forgot"
  • Wrong song--It's a New Year's Eve song, but the event is February 1
  • Wrong combination--The picture, the date, and the lyrics have no connection to each other.

I don't think Apple would send out the equivalent of a Valentines card with the picture of a Christmas tree and a quote from the lyrics of Yankee Doodle.
 
It's a fake

pierceglennie said:
This thing looks pretty good to me - if it is a fake it's a good one. I noticed that the font is different (as did the guy/gal who posted this) but in some ways I think this makes it more likely to be true. The think is that if someone was trying to make a fake they obviously wouldn't use a different font (particularly when there's obviously been quite a lot of attention to detail in it elsewhere) so m guess is that for whatever name Apple has decided to use a different font. It just seems to fit the rumors to have an event now.
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Sorry, but in my experience with Apple advertising, Apple does not change the font. It is a part of the corporate identity. They also make it very clear in their advertising guidelines to both retail dealers and ACN members that only authorized logos and fonts are to be used.
 
Panu said:
This is obviously a fake:
  • Wrong reply address
  • Wrong font
  • Wrong venue--Apple holds press events in Cupertino
  • Wrong venue--Moscone is book up that day
  • Wrong date--it's too late to announce a public event, which it would be if it were at Moscone
  • Wrong lyrics--it is "Should auld aquaintance be forgot"
  • Wrong song--It's a New Year's Eve song, but the event is February 1
  • Wrong combination--The picture, the date, and the lyrics have no connection to each other.
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I can accept all the above observation with one critical exception you have foolishly overlooked - Chinese New Year! That's where they're made right - it all makes sense (to me)!:)
 
Sunrise from the south

This thread is hilarious. "Days of long ago" by Auld Lang Syne reminds me of a song listing in the printed program of a wedding I attended:
The Irish Wedding Song ......... by Andante.
In addition, the shadow of the sunrise in the planetary picture seems to be coming from the South. (The shadow is too large for an eclipse.) Evidently Apple intends to turn the world on its side with their next announcement.
Edit: I mean the sun seems to be rising from the north, as the shadow is receding toward the south.
 
I've heard people sing Auld Lang Syne in their native languages in both Japan and Germany on the New Year. I'm pretty sure most people have at least heard the melody. They might not be familiar with the english wording, though.
 
It's amazing to me that people go to the trouble of faking these things. Personally I have the firm belief that they are a black ops department of the Apple advertising machine, paid to keep the hype flame burning!........'plausible deniability'!
 
polyesterlester said:
I've heard people sing Auld Lang Syne in their native languages in both Japan and Germany on the New Year. I'm pretty sure most people have at least heard the melody. They might not be familiar with the english wording, though.
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You don't happen to have the text of that in Japanese, do you? My wife and I work in Japanese studies, and I'm an amateur collector of strange occidental adoptions like this :). I can't imagine how it would go, and get nothing with a google search.

And of course the thing's a fake...but it's been fun reading how people who have more spare time on their hands than I do deconstruct the image. Seriously, it's an interesting study in iconography and branding.
 
polyesterlester said:
I've heard people sing Auld Lang Syne in their native languages in both Japan and Germany on the New Year. I'm pretty sure most people have at least heard the melody. They might not be familiar with the english wording, though.
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Anyone who's ever seen Dick Clark's New Year's special or watched the London show on the Thames or attended the festivities in San Francisco has heard the song. It's also one of the first songs usually taught to music beginners because of the simple melody.

It must just be a sign of the times that so many people don't know the words. Traditional Christmas carols are also increasingly unfamiliar (Christian or not [I'm not], there was a time not long ago when everyone could sing them without the world ending). The national anthem can't be far behind.
 
Panu said:
This is obviously a fake:
  • Wrong reply address
  • Wrong font
  • Wrong venue--Apple holds press events in Cupertino
  • Wrong venue--Moscone is book up that day
  • Wrong date--it's too late to announce a public event, which it would be if it were at Moscone
  • Wrong lyrics--it is "Should auld aquaintance be forgot"
  • Wrong song--It's a New Year's Eve song, but the event is February 1
  • Wrong combination--The picture, the date, and the lyrics have no connection to each other.

I don't think Apple would send out the equivalent of a Valentines card with the picture of a Christmas tree and a quote from the lyrics of Yankee Doodle.
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(1) Address - try emailing it, see if it works.

(2) Maybe the design team fancied a change of font, or somebody didn't tell somebody else which font to use, etc.

(3) I think they have had events at Moscone before (but I might be wrong) - maybe it's a big one.

(4) Moscone West is not booked tomorrow only today and Friday - try phoning them to see if you can book the venue for tomorrow.

(5) OK the lyrics are not exact but see details of Anglicized version on Wikipedia (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Auld_Lang_Syne) - and heh it makes sense as a reference to MS, and draws in the new beginning, new year theme

(6) Correct, and it is not Chinese New Year as one poster suggested - that begins Feb 18.

(7) The song is apparently used across the globe for different endings and beginnings - see once again http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Auld_Lang_Syne


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a456 said:
(2) Maybe the design team fancied a change of font, or somebody didn't tell somebody else which font to use, etc.
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That's not the way things work in an agency... especially on an account the size of Apple's. You'd have god knows how many art directors and account handlers crawling over every piece of work, and the client's representatives, probably marketing in this case, signs everything off. It's not some small set-up making decisions on typography on a whim, on a fancy.

I agree with P-Worm; this thread has reached the end of its natural life. They shoot threads, don't they?
 
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