These designs have all been fake,
You must be a moron to believe apple could ever design this!
Even the number of holes at the bottom is a dead give away, no apple product has an unequal number of speaker hole, let alone all the other give aways from screen ratio to headphone jack to a different connector. It's all false info.
I see no apple people round here squashing these supposed apple products, all which suggest it's not apple.
I don't think it's quite as obvious as you make it out, but I do agree they're likely fakes.
The legal aspect is the most compelling for me. Sure, Apple could be ignoring the leaks so as not to give them credence; however, that is NOT how Apple has handled things in the past.
Apple has always been known for their adherence to principles. Whether it's minimalist/utilitarian design and UI, making products that are aesthetically appeasing, locking down their hardware to run their software only. You may not always like Apple's approach, but they have a philosophy behind everything they do. They have a security philosophy as well.
Apple's security philosophy is first and foremost secrecy. They control access to prototypes, they produce multiple models so suppliers can't determine prototypes. Their supply chain is locked down, so factory workers can't take pictures or smuggle out products. The second principle is to aggressively respond to leaks. They have lawyers at the ready to send out cease and desist/take-down notices. They've worked with the special IP SWAT team to raid people's homes. They knock on doors... This is all to deter others.
Remember Gizmodo. Apple could have just ignored the piece and not given any indication if the phone was real--they didn't. They chose to confirm the phone was genuine rather than passively let the leak go unpunished.
tl;dr The "Long iPhone" is fake. Apple cares about security. They have a long history of following a particular philosophy of aggressive action against leaks. THE "LONG iPHONE" LEAKS HAVE NOT BEEN CHALLENGED BY APPLE. No take down notices to be found.
This strongly suggests to me that everything we've seen to date is completely fake.
I would go even further. The more leaks that seem to confirm a design that go unanswered by Apple, the more likely it is to be fake. This sounds counter-intuitive, normally you'd expect more leaks lead to greater credibility (and this is true for every other company I can think of), but with Apple more leaks unanswered suggests the greater probability we're dealing with non-Apple products. Since the "Long iPhone" design has lots of rather dodgy support, coming from suppliers...agreeing with renders and speculation on boards--all without a peep from 1 Infinite Loop--I think you can disregard it with a fair degree of confidence.
