All these jokers with their fake boxes. Please.......must be real lonely or something. If these boxes were indeed shipped out to all the dealers, testers and such someone would have opened theirs and posted pics. Come on, get real !!!!!!!!!
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Because I wouldn't want people looking up my home address using FedEx's tracking number.
Also, I wasn't sure if he was going to continue on describing the 3g phone he has already seen, or if the NDA was violated by him saying he has seen/used the 3g phone.
This, by far the worst thread I have ever came across on MR. Apple, or any company, would never ever ship something that says " do not open till... top secrete" really big and place it on the box. And APPLE is not a basement company, these boxes/ labels look like they were made in a preschool art class. I think they can afford to class up the shipping box. I am actually mad about what I have seen.
It's a satellite phone rigged to automatically call the Apple Legal Team so that they can start the process of suing/excommunicating Resellers who violate NDA's.
This is a fake. If there were NDA's covering mystery boxes, they would include not mentioning there were mystery boxes.
If it were from Apple, it is meant as a plant to raise hype.
Shipments of marketing kits from Apple are (suspecting) overnighted to prevent some kid making $10/hr at the Apple Store from leaking information early.
Bet we don't hear from that same reseller what was in the box when he opens it next week.
This is a fake. If there were NDA's covering mystery boxes, they would include not mentioning there were mystery boxes.
If it were from Apple, it is meant as a plant to raise hype.
Shipments of marketing kits from Apple are (suspecting) overnighted to prevent some kid making $10/hr at the Apple Store from leaking information early.
Bet we don't hear from that same reseller what was in the box when he opens it next week.
If the box he showed were real the NDA would have already been broken.
Here's a sample for you. And by even showing a portion of the note in a way I'm breaking the NDA :
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I'll gladly eat these words if I am wrong but I think Baffles is full of it but he talks a good game.
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I can't see how this would be a violation. Everyone knows a new iPhone is coming. Everyone knows it is 3G. Everyone knows that products are beta-tested before shipment to the masses. Everyone knows that people have to test them. Everyone knows that products are seen before they go public. It's disclosing information about the product that is not already common knowledge that would be a violation. JMO
I've received a few things from Apple mailed in similar boxes with very similar shipping labels. One time was when I received my iPod nano from the student discount thing last August, and another time when my 12" PB qualified for the battery recall. That box is definitely from Apple.
Then you got screwed bc every box I have gotten from apple never had the letter head look like that. Yes it was a brown box, but the way the lables look on these are total ********. The Apple logo is never that big in shipping. When I got my MBP in the mail this year the literature was very discrete and hidden.
It is very possible these people used old boxes from apple and put these horrid looking labels on it
When you test things for Apple (hardware or software) you are not allowed to discuss or display the product or anything related to it until official release. It is not official yet.
He was more likely referring to the FedEx label, not the NDA labels. I doubt his PB was shipped to him with NDA labels all over it
Im thinking that since the box isnt the usual white ('Obsessive Andora White #2873sj') "Designed by Apple in California" look about it, and the label being on the BOTTOM of the box kinda gives it away.
Im sure even in their cafeteria the milk cartons are white, with a apple stylized picture of a cow plus the standard apple font that reads: iMilk
Im sure even in their cafeteria the milk cartons are white, with a apple stylized picture of a cow plus the standard apple font that reads: iMilk
Yea....
There is no way this is real. Mac would just have a courier service drop it off moments after the announcement.
There is no way this is real. Mac would just have a courier service drop it off moments after the announcement.
cant you still buy those "X-Ray Specs" that used to be advertised in comic books?
Ill bet its a box inside a box inside a box with a Rubik cube in the final center box
Fake!
I'm not supposed to say anything, but I will say that those boxes may be legit. I am a private Apple product tester (I've already seen the iPhone 3g first hand) and they occasionally send me newly released or announced products to check over for any last minute issues before they are released to the general public. I just got this box myself, I'm thinking it may be the final iPhone 3g, either that or Steve has something else up his sleeve for WWDC.
Baffles come clean. Apple does not send out any packages with the labels taped on them (they can easily tear away from the package during transit in the major carriers automated systems). Anyone ever receive a package that has been in transit from CA to NY in a major carriers system and have the labels appear as sparkling white and clean as Baffles here? Finally your package has a ship date of June 4th for FedEx Home Delivery Service, that is a 5 day transit time from CA to NY. Maybe you are a time traveller as well as Steve's personal product tester.
P.S> You should have blacked out the system# on your label, we can track that as well
Showing a box is not a violation of the NDA. Even your attachment says that you cannot show the product or the content created with it. If he showed the packaging of the product it would be a violation. Showing a shipping box with an Apple address is not a violation, even if the box indicates it contains something covered under the NDA.
Showing a box is not a violation of the NDA. Even your attachment says that you cannot show the product or the content created with it. If he showed the packaging of the product it would be a violation. Showing a shipping box with an Apple address is not a violation, even if the box indicates it contains something covered under the NDA.
I was referring to talking about it.
The box itself is obviously put together by 3rd graders.
LOOK WHAT I FOUND! IT'S IN AN ELEVATOR SO IT MUST BE TRUE!1!!
This is not the regular elevator. Steve must have remolded for this year. Stayed tuned for new elevator pictures.
Showing a box is not a violation of the NDA. Even your attachment says that you cannot show the product or the content created with it. If he showed the packaging of the product it would be a violation. Showing a shipping box with an Apple address is not a violation, even if the box indicates it contains something covered under the NDA.
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Other way around it would mean that every fedex/ups guy could be sued.