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Whatever they do, they can't violate some basic design measurements or they will screw up all the accessories, Bose's etc everyone has bought.

They can if they want to inject the market with mandatory new accessory sales... I'd venture to guess most people haven't bought replacement anything for their iPods (other than maybe headphones) since their initial purchase.

It's called planned obsolescence.
 
Hopefully they've been humiliated into not only pulling the pictures but pulling the design! I mean can't you just see the newsstories?

Apple goes from Cool to Square.

But...but...Huey Lewis says it's HIP to be square! What gives? :D
 
As long as the next regular-sized iPods don't look like that. :eek: Might just pick up one of the current nanos for the gym.
 
the first time i wondered "what the hell is steve thinking" was when that guy that introduced time machine walked on stage and did his thing. he's just wrong... I blame him he he :eek::D

Makes me wonder if Apple's time machine had a bug ( as if it wouldn't :p) and swapped Steve's mind with the mind of John Sculley.
 
As long as the next regular-sized iPods don't look like that. :eek: Might just pick up one of the current nanos for the gym.

Maybe these photos are part of a plot by Apple to boost current Nano 2G sales and Apple's legal team is just a playing their assigned role.
 
I work in advertising. And I just wanted to chime in.

Numerous times, a client will provide artwork as files like you see in the picture. The shadows are not always correct, nor is the alignment of the objects. The designer will typically correct all that before it gets an official layout (with copy).

So, you cannot write this off because of the file. My guess it is client-provided artwork that's being prepped. And who knows, perhaps it was given the shady characteristics to throw you all off.

That's my guess. But you better believe it, Apple knows eactly who has what artwork, especially if it's ahead of release, and you can be sure someone would be in big-time trouble.

My source at Apple tells me that all artwork provided to vendors and even used by Apple's marketing team are all slightly different for that very reason. One look at this - if it's real - and it won't be long before someone takes the fall.

Then you of all people should know that they wouldn't start with such low res. images.
 
Fat is the new slender.. apparently.

maybe they'll drop the price too. cos you can never be to fat. Or too cheap.

By one poster's size comparison from the old nano, it looks more like it's a shorter ipod not a shorter nano. Which kinda creates some questions of where the ipod will go from here?
 
Let me say this... NOOOOOOOOOOO! Why would apple make their products look like this, that looks really bad to me. Introducing the new iPod Chub, it's not fat, just short. Yick, nanos are for people who don't want videos, why would Apple create this awkward looking thing. If they honestly release this, Ive is dead to me.
 
This post removed due to the request of Apple Legal.
See? I can do it too...
He's mocking the fact that anyone can make it look like Apple Legal requested them to do something (ie take down a forum post). I want to believe that everyone buying it is just joking or being sarcastic, but part of me wonders...
 
Same width

Just for fun I decided to see what it would look like if these were the same width as the current Nanos (thus, not any fatter, but definitely a lot shorter). They would be so small that I don't know if the clickwheel would be useable. The screen would be about the same size, though.

(Only spent a minute on it, sorry for the crap quality)
 

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Maybe they're going for a more burley, American Chopper market. This is the iPod FatBoy. It'll come out with an Orange County Chopper version. I can see the commercial now with Paul Sr. The first Apple commercial with bleeps.
 
Thank you SO much for putting that song in my head. I may have to sue you...

:p

I may have to sue YOU for getting me to think about derivatives, integrals, and other memories I've been attempting to suppress! Maybe I'll hire Apple Legal too since they seem to be SO GOOD at taking things out of places they shouldn't be! :p
 
He's mocking the fact that anyone can make it look like Apple Legal requested them to do something (ie take down a forum post). I want to believe that everyone buying it is just joking or being sarcastic, but part of me wonders...

LOL *thank you* for having a clue.

I'm starting to lose faith in the Mac FanBoy proper... when'd we start drinking the Kool-Aid?
 
Just for fun I decided to see what it would look like if these were the same width as the current Nanos (thus, not any fatter, but definitely a lot shorter). They would be so small that I don't know if the clickwheel would be useable. The screen would be about the same size, though.

Assuming you didn't mess with this picture other than cropping and rotating, does anyone else notice how OFF the screen level is (horizontally)? Or am I just seeing things?
 

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