So, several interesting things that I'm going to point out here.
1. On the right side of the photo, we see a book. You can make out "ANGLAR OCH". Quick google search reveals it to be the Swedish version of Dan Brown's Angels and Demons (or daemons if you prefer)
Book Cover. The glossiness almost makes it look like a library book.
2. On the top right, you can see another book, cover curling up. You can make out "984" and some lines below. Looks an awful lot like
this book to me. A great book to have in-scene with a mac, to be sure.
3. The business card. Now, i'm not an apple employee, but looking on flickr i find
This version of an apple card. This flickr find could certainly be outdated. the Vertical version is made more believable by
This apple retail card
That said, i see three possibilities under which this could be real:
1. Swedish speaking employee at the Cupertino Campus - the Library-book feel of the copy of Angels and Demons (also the fact that someone would have that hardback on their desk this long after the release of the book) makes that feel unlikely
2. An employee at apple in sweden. I find it exceedingly unlikely that an employee at apple sweden would have two unreleased products on his/her desk. two, as the iphone is yet to be released in sweden. beyond that, i believe that apple runs all their european operations from Cork, Ireland.
3. a swedish employee in cupertino was home for xmas and took this photo. also vanishingly unlikely.
my guess for most likely explanation:
1. swedish fanboy created this and then posted it at 9pm CET, rather than an apple employee posting at 12:39pm in cupertino
All that said. I can't wait for the keynote
UPDATE:
I just noticed something else. Under the copy of Angels and Demons is last month's Wired. You can't get that in europe (unless you pay an outrageous subscription fee). I dunno, I'm on the fence. If it's real though, I'd put good money on scenario 1.
