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iWalk

Just remember...

This is a rumor site.... so whatever apple has got is "way beyond" anything here.
Right? Right?

I'm not sure whether I should be more impressed if those videos are fake or not!
 
Anyone notice

... the similarities between the "dial" and the round Apple power supply on the desk?

FWIW - I think it's a week doctored fake.
 
I just wanted to mention something to all the PDA hopefuls (of which I belong). Just because Steve said that Apple will not make a PDA does NOT mean that Apple won't make a PDA-thay'll just call it something new or different. He may never use the term PDA or Personal Digital Assistant, but he sure as heck could call it whatever he liked as long it functioned like an über-PDA.

Gus
 
Originally posted by Gus
I just wanted to mention something to all the PDA hopefuls (of which I belong). Just because Steve said that Apple will not make a PDA does NOT mean that Apple won't make a PDA-thay'll just call it something new or different. He may never use the term PDA or Personal Digital Assistant, but he sure as heck could call it whatever he liked as long it functioned like an über-PDA.

Gus
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very true ....
 
One last comment, and I'm done here. Look at the lettering for iWalk in the turnaround movie. the type has not been set properly. the "i" "W" and "a" are not all on the same line (horizontal along the bottom of each letter). They are, in fact, quite a bit off. I wasn't convinced before, but I'm starting to doubt...

Gus
 
i think it's real.

but no one is talkng about the:

iDie
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- Titanium casing, with acrylic facing on top for ease of viewing during the funeral
- bullet proof, water tight
- 15" LCD screen for memorial messages
- 64Megs RAM to serve for the electronic time capsule
- IRDA so you can sync the deceased information to older pdas
- firewire video camera w/bluetooth - pretty disgusting if you ask me
- lacks a reset button but does come with a single port... to release built-up pressure from within
 
Any Problems?

I don't know what to believe anymore!!!
After looking at the screen shots, I'd say it looks completely real, but after hearing all of those comments about the videos (I can't view them on Solaris at work...), most people seem convinced that the video is faked. At this point, it looks like the following are possible:


1. Product Exists and video is real
(irregularities are due to video compression)

2. Product Exists, but video was doctored
(perhaps the "real" iWalk looks different,
or perhaps the video only shows a prototype
model of some sort)


3. Product doesn't exist, but video was
based on a real prototype developed at Apple


4. Product doesn't exist, and the screenshots
and videos are completely faked, perhaps
the most convincing forgery we've ever seen.

From what I'm hearing from everyone, I think
I'm leaning more toward #'s 2 or 3 here.
Although the screenshots/video might not show
the final product, it doesn't mean that a
real final product doesn't exist.
 
just a thought

take a moment and look at what Apple.com says, "It's like a backstage pass to the future." Look at it this way, the Newton, is in the past (backstage). And now it's being passed into the future with iwalk. Just speculation, but it still could be right...

hope that something BIG is releaced!!
 
hmmm...

macrules929, that seems like a big stretch to me.

One thing is clear: Jobs clearly learned from the hype surrounding Ginger/IT.
 
The entire movie... a fake ????

All of your comments seem to me true. Then if it's not the real IWalk that we expect to see on Monday, the only thing is that it could be an old or new prototype developped by Apple, However, it,s surely not a computer-made movie. And again, if it is, It's gonna be the most realistic movie we've ever seen!!!! I never see something with so much quality before! Then 3D programmer..... congratulation!!!!
 
It's from Germany

Do you hear the German guy speak on the turnaround video?

It isn't fake - but you won't see it Monday.
 
it's a plant

why else would apple taunt the rumor sites yesterday - and then the iWalk shows up last night . . . and not get pulled by legal . . .i think steve's f'n w/ everyone . . . and if so . . . brilliant.

i think it may be "in the realm" of what we may get . . .

this was probably an old iWhatever prototype . . . why not throw it on the web for a little fun . . . we are all completely freakin' for this show now . . .
 
i also believe this is a plant. but whether it is or not i think i am having more fun now than i will on the 7th!!
 
actually . . . i'm starting to get nervous . . . i just started reading and replying to this stuff last night . . . and now i have been doing it all morning . . . how am i going to make it till monday??!!!?? . . .

maybe steve's got osama and omar !!
 
IT'S FAKE ALREADY!!

Look, I don't understand what all the fuss is about. It's obvious that the videos have been faked period. The iWalk itself is not consistent with other apple designs either, it's ugly. Something may exist SIMILAR to the iWalk, but the iWalk is not what we will see on the 7th...I'd bet my left testicle. For those that think the videos are real, size them up full screen and see for yourself that the text was comped in After Effects...sure the turnaround movie looks great, and no it's not CG/3D rendered...it's just a mock up. Notice that the iWalk never moves when the screen is on or that it's always conveniently locked down so as to make the effect easier to pull off? I just can't believe people don't see this...come on!

I'll go now and slip into my comfy flame retardant boxers. 🙂
 
Apple Logo on jog dial

If this is real, the logo on the jog dial is there so you can decide whether to boot in vertical or horizontal modes perhaps. (turn it 45 degrees for horizontal).
 
Its a fake

Though im not saying it was a bad fake, it is still a fake. They took the iPod and Apple power supply, made a 3d model of it and edited it in to a guy at a desk with a Visor Edge stylus. Apple Industrial design would never do something as stupid as to put the power switch on the bottom of the PDA. The way they had the "iWalk" set up it would come on in your pocket every 2 minutes. Even more damning is the fact that if this truly was an Apple PDA then Apple legal would have made Spymac pull it yesterday when they posted the thumbnail.
 
C4...I disagree...

I don't think it is even remotely "obvious" that these are fakes....

And yes...I've looked at the quicktime movies hundreds of times...blown up to full screen...small....medium...upside down...etc.

On the copy of "sayhello.mov'" that I have, the text and other screen elements move slightly in PERFECT unison with the unit. I just don't see the floating text that others claim to see.

I'll agree that the jog wheel seems a bit large, but I think the rest of the machine looks great. Clean. Simple. Functional.

And, it's not like Apple has never released a product that many of us didn't like...can you say hockey puck mouse?

To conclude that these are obvious fakes is quite a stretch. If they are, indeed, fakes...they are by FAR the best fakes we've ever seen in the mac community. Nothing else even comes close to the level of detail that would have to have been pulled off to produce these videos.
 
iWalk is so a fake I'll bet both my testicles

First of all, look at the size of it, its way to big. It looks like a shell has been built over another pda, I am not sure which on, but if you look at the turnaraound movie, look at the firewire port, inside it looks like a place for a stylus, not a firewire cable. ALSO, apple would never make a dial like the one on this unit. it looks awful, plus it does nothing. If you notice, the hand turns the dial, then hits the bottom button and then the screen switches orientation. On the back of the unit, the name iWalk and apple logo aren't even centered on the panel. If it is a prototype, no codes would be on it. You are all falling for a big hoax...
 
Ignoring the video (which unfortunately I can't watch right now), the product shown has a couple of drawbacks as a PDA, the biggest one is size and the second is that the market itself is moving away from strict PDA's into convergent devices that are phones as much as they are PDA's.
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Anyone seen the "Danger"?
 
Access Denied

Am I the only person that is having trouble getting to the web page. I'm getting a access denied error. Maby Apple finally got on the ball and realized that there is a leak out there. So removed the web page.

So I guess we can just go on speculating, but at least appearently one of our questions have been answered. That is, if this is true, why hasn't apple removed the web page??? While I guess that they have

 
Access Denied

Am I the only person that is having trouble getting to the web page. I'm getting a access denied error. Maby Apple finally got on the ball and realized that there is a leak out there. So removed the web page.

So I guess we can just go on speculating, but at least appearently one of our questions have been answered. That is, if this is true, why hasn't apple removed the web page??? While I guess that they have...

 
BTW, does anyone remember that Spymac also posted another iWalk right before MWNY and the iPod announcement?
I hope it is real, or that Apple has something even better, it's just that I'm not sure I can put much faith in the messenger.
 
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