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Unreleased iPod Touch with Mac Pro Glossy Black Finish Shared Online
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I don't think you're missing anything. It just isn't interesting to you. That has no bearing on whether it may or may not be interesting to other people.
Depends on the actual implementation of the finish: My SpaceBlack Stainless Steel Apple Watch 4 looks like new after 2 years of service - no directly visible scratches on either the housing or the glass (did not look for micro scratches). Guess such a hard coating would be too expensive for a device the size of an iPhone, though.
Was there a MacRumors guarantee that each post will excite and invigorate you? It's just a news post.
Come on Apple, give us a proper new Touch based on the upcoming small iPhone 12.
Same here.
Used both the 7 and 7 Plus JB without cases, one was super scratched up and the other somewhat scratched. They still looked slick and felt great in the hand. Wouldn’t have enjoyed the material at all in a case.
Hard to tell. If I’m remembering correctly, the frame around the display on the first (few?) iPod touches was matte grey/black aluminum. Does that sound right to anyone?
not exactly, the iPod U2 editions had a metallic glossy black finish on the back. Maybe that was the effect they were going for?
I was curious by the comments on the back cover, I got out my iPod that I purchased in the summer of 2008, it has been in a leather holster for most of its life, I took it out of the holster and the back was scratched to heck. This is compared to an old iPhone 6 that I also still have, the back is nearly pristine yet.
Neat! The first gen. touch is still one of my favorite Apple devices, particularly running iOS 1. As someone who owns four of them (I still use them for music regularly), I really wish they would've released this. Looks super cool.
Me too. I still use one as my main phone, though haha (with iOS 6 of course).
I'm perfectly willing to believe that this is just a 3rd party custom-painted back case, but the account that posted this has been posting other stuff that is on prototype software, and other weird internal Apple stuff, for months that sure doesn't look fake (and seem like it'd be pretty pointless to hoax for something so minor and random, like photoshopping or otherwise modifying a bunch of Apple Pencils to say "EVT").
I'm assuming you have it on good authority that Apple never uses production software/internals to test different materials? If so, that would presumably mean that the poster got suckered by someone selling them a stock iPod with a custom paint job as a prototype. The alternative would be that it's intentional and therefore everything else is fake too, and I'm not buying that based on the other stuff posted.
I’m not saying the other examples on the user’s page are fake. Those do look exactly like what you’d expect from prototype devices.
But THIS one just looks custom. If it’s on an early version of the software I’d expect it to be on 1.1 and not 1.1.4. Most used 1st gen iPod touches you get on eBay are on 1.1.4 or 1.1.5 because it STILL costs a small fee to upgrade a first generation touch to 3.1.3. On top of this downgrading is super simple.
And I’m currently thinking of customizing my 7th gen classic even more. The black back housing that looks to match this one appears to be the same black metal color
EDIT: fixed link with better example.
But THIS one just looks custom. If it’s on an early version of the software I’d expect it to be on 1.1 and not 1.1.4. Most used 1st gen iPod touches you get on eBay are on 1.1.4 or 1.1.5 because it STILL costs a small fee to upgrade a first generation touch to 3.1.3. On top of this downgrading is super simple.
And I’m currently thinking of customizing my 7th gen classic even more. The black back housing that looks to match this one appears to be the same black metal color
EDIT: fixed link with better example.
