<strong>giant, that's an old obvious fake. The new iWalk pics are definately in the style of the iPod and iBook. Quanta is probably making them. 4 more days!</strong><hr></blockquote>
Do I need to spell it out for you, chief? These folks have been working on this mockup for a couple months. The design is quite obviously not in line with the iPod, esspecially when you consider the jog wheel. Believe what you want, but you will be dissapointed when you realize they just whanted to get your e.mail to sell to a marketing firm.
Don't forget that almost all of you thought that the Quicksilver pics that were leaked were fake..."no way Apple will have that speaker just hanging out there..." Many thought the Cube pics were fake..."an 8" Cube for a computer? No way, Meader is on drugs!"...
<strong>Don't forget that almost all of you thought that the Quicksilver pics that were leaked were fake..."no way Apple will have that speaker just hanging out there..." Many thought the Cube pics were fake..."an 8" Cube for a computer? No way, Meader is on drugs!"...</strong><hr></blockquote>
The cube and the Quicksilver...we had such little to go on. This...this is just TOO much.
No way ANY Apple employee is going to shoot VIDEO of a new product before its announced. Not after the Worker Bee thing and just posting pics.
Not only that but the user is clearly male, white and speaks German. Apple could easily narrow it down if they did send out units.
I'm glad I used my "spam" email address because I'm sure I'll be signed up for a million german schizer porn lists by next week. <img src="graemlins/bugeye.gif" border="0" alt="[Skeptical]" />
Something that got my attention was that it had to startup. Have anybody seen a modern PDA have a startup screen? Palm, PocketPC? I don't think so. It would be pretty stupid of Apple to release a PDA that is not instant on. But it could be a prototype, which could explain it...
Codename seemed to be hinting at this very device a couple weeks ago in the "G5 - The Truth" thread. The image he posted looks like the identical interface/OS to that shown in the iWalk.
Makes me think this is legit - however, I do think it is a prototype, not the final product.</strong><hr></blockquote>
No it doesn't. not the slightest bit. That's an OS 9 app, it doesn't look anything like the spymac interface.
<strong>This one proves to me, that this iWalk thing is a fake. In the "Bootup" movie, the hand moves the wheel, but the wheel stays where it is. But after some moments, the wheel snaps to the point where the finger is.
You're right, and when the wheel does move, it suddenly jumps from here it was all the way to where it starts to move. At the same time, the hand continues to move the wheel at the same rate it wasn't a frame drop over there or something.
The best reason I can think of to say the iWalk is fake, is that spymac.com faked an object called the iWalk before... that dumb, gray notebook-looking thing.
Obviously one of the spymac guys is an industrial design pro, or at least an ID student or something. One of my friends was an ID student, and these look like the kind of "product mockup" projects they were required to make in school. Believe me, I've seen mocked-up kitchen scales, toasters and other products that looked just as "real" and retail-ready as both versions of the iWalk on spymac.com, but none of those models really worked.
Lots of people thought "Alien Autopsy" was real too. To me this is the same thing -- fairly convincing, but not quite all the way there.
Come on...I don't think Apple would use the scroll just for that if that at all. Can't imagine writing on the screen, accidentally hitting the wheel...oops. Screen flipped to new orientation. <hr></blockquote>
Actually, in the video, you have to turn the wheel and then press the button underneath it (power button?); a safety, I suppose.
My big concern there is that the wheel takes up the bottom quarter of the device... that's an enormous waste of space for a function that could just as easily be implemented by a sliding switch on the side of the unit; my hope would be that, if real, the wheel would be more of a browser, like the wheel on the iPod.
I'm convinced the iWalk is real; that is, someone has built it, I'm just not sure that Apple has. If it's a fake, it's a very elaborate fake, and very drool-worthy.
If it's real, then it would pretty much validate the previous iWalk that SpyMac reported on, which may have been a prototype unit.
these guys at spymac almost did it... but they have absolutely no sense for proportions. everytime when they fake something (this time it has been close...) they paste in such a big big apple... that is not the way apples hardware looks right now and in the future...
The wheel not turning in bootup.mov also changes color when it finally decides to follow the finger. What it looks like to me is an actual model first that was overlayed with a CG turning one and they got the timing wrong.
Like with the lightsabers in the old Star Wars. They would first stand there with no blade for ignition, stop the camera, someone would run out, stick the blade into the handle (or exchange it for a new one), then start the camera again. You would sometimes see a little jump.
<strong>The wheel not turning in bootup.mov also changes color when it finally decides to follow the finger. What it looks like to me is an actual model first that was overlayed with a CG turning one and they got the timing wrong.
Like with the lightsabers in the old Star Wars. They would first stand there with no blade for ignition, stop the camera, someone would run out, stick the blade into the handle (or exchange it for a new one), then start the camera again. You would sometimes see a little jump.
Maybe, but the point I made earlier is that there is no good reason for them to have made the button from CG. Give me a couple of days and I could whip up something that looks pretty much the same and that would actually turn. Then again, just because it doesn't make any sense doesn't mean that they didn't do it...
I agree with the post above, and I'm surprised nobody has said it before. The way the button reflects the hand and all - I think it was a physical thing actually on the model. This is supported by the fact that it exists in all shots, not just the ones where the iWalk isn't moving. Assuming iWalk is a hoax, which is what this discussion assumes, a CG wheel would have had to follow the movement of the iWalk in the "turnaround" video. If they were going to do this, why on earth wouldn't they peg an image to the screen as well in order to make it look like it was turned on.
I think a better explanation is that either the guy's thumb was merely glossing the side of the wheel and didn't catch it enough to turn, or maybe the model was just poorly made and it took a bit of force or play before the dial moved.
It's also my opinion that whatever happened combined with a badly-timed glitch in the video or skipped frame, which misses the point where it does start to move (it's a quick operation). We all know the frame rate on this thing isn't the best and it's compressed...probably explains why the image appears to "jump" a little once it does start moving.
Not to say it actually does anything or that it's a real product, but I believe the wheel to be an actual physical object, and thus its odd movement has physical, not CG trickery, explanations.
At this point (after noon on the day after the posting, PST), doesn't the fact that "thousands" of people have seen their movies, yet none of those are Apple lawyers demanding they remove them, constitute compelling evidence that it's a fake?
<strong>At this point (after noon on the day after the posting, PST), doesn't the fact that "thousands" of people have seen their movies, yet none of those are Apple lawyers demanding they remove them, constitute compelling evidence that it's a fake?</strong><hr></blockquote>
I already wrote a post on this. Basically I said it tells us nothing, because.
1. If there are lawyers' demands, many will say that SpyMac made it up in order to complete the hoax.
2. If there are not lawyers' demands, some will say that Apple knows that sicking lawyers on SpyMac constitutes admission of iWalk's existence. Given the widespread nature of the photos/videos, it's to their advantage at this point to simply keep people in doubt until Macworld. Especially since most think the thing is a hoax to begin with.
So you see - no matter what happens with Apple Legal, this forum will be no more or less decided.
When I first watched the video, my jaw nearly dropped. Then I started to watch it closely. I noticed both the camera moving but not the text, and the scroll wheel making a huge jump in position and color in just one frame WITHOUT A DROP OF A FRAME. It is obvious that the frame is still there because the finger is still moving while it is touching the wheel that is not moving.
It is a fake, I would bet $100 on the fakery.
To whoever made it: I am very impressed! It really looks does look real.
I already wrote a post on this. Basically I said it tells us nothing, because.
1. If there are lawyers' demands, many will say that SpyMac made it up in order to complete the hoax.
2. If there are not lawyers' demands, some will say that Apple knows that sicking lawyers on SpyMac constitutes admission of iWalk's existence. Given the widespread nature of the photos/videos, it's to their advantage at this point to simply keep people in doubt until Macworld. Especially since most think the thing is a hoax to begin with.
So you see - no matter what happens with Apple Legal, this forum will be no more or less decided.
-S</strong><hr></blockquote>
Yes, but what about the 10.2 pics on the site???
I think apple might not even know about the site??
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<strong>giant, that's an old obvious fake. The new iWalk pics are definately in the style of the iPod and iBook. Quanta is probably making them. 4 more days!</strong><hr></blockquote>
Do I need to spell it out for you, chief? These folks have been working on this mockup for a couple months. The design is quite obviously not in line with the iPod, esspecially when you consider the jog wheel. Believe what you want, but you will be dissapointed when you realize they just whanted to get your e.mail to sell to a marketing firm.
<strong>Don't forget that almost all of you thought that the Quicksilver pics that were leaked were fake..."no way Apple will have that speaker just hanging out there..." Many thought the Cube pics were fake..."an 8" Cube for a computer? No way, Meader is on drugs!"...</strong><hr></blockquote>
The cube and the Quicksilver...we had such little to go on. This...this is just TOO much.
No way ANY Apple employee is going to shoot VIDEO of a new product before its announced. Not after the Worker Bee thing and just posting pics.
Not only that but the user is clearly male, white and speaks German. Apple could easily narrow it down if they did send out units.
I'm glad I used my "spam" email address because I'm sure I'll be signed up for a million german schizer porn lists by next week. <img src="graemlins/bugeye.gif" border="0" alt="[Skeptical]" />
<strong>What gives me pause is this:
<a href="http://forums.appleinsider.com/cgi-bin/ultimatebb.cgi?ubb=get_topic&f=1&t=000058&p=7"; target="_blank">http://forums.appleinsider.com/cgi-bin/ultimatebb. cgi?ubb=get_topic&f=1&t=000058&p=7</a>
Codename seemed to be hinting at this very device a couple weeks ago in the "G5 - The Truth" thread. The image he posted looks like the identical interface/OS to that shown in the iWalk.
Makes me think this is legit - however, I do think it is a prototype, not the final product.</strong><hr></blockquote>
No it doesn't. not the slightest bit. That's an OS 9 app, it doesn't look anything like the spymac interface.
<strong>This one proves to me, that this iWalk thing is a fake. In the "Bootup" movie, the hand moves the wheel, but the wheel stays where it is. But after some moments, the wheel snaps to the point where the finger is.
View it here in slow motion:
<a href="http://www.olivergruber.ch/stuff/iwalkfake.mov"; target="_blank">www.olivergruber.ch/stuff/iwalkfake.mov</a></strong><hr></blockquote>
You're right, and when the wheel does move, it suddenly jumps from here it was all the way to where it starts to move. At the same time, the hand continues to move the wheel at the same rate it wasn't a frame drop over there or something.
<a href="http://tess.uspto.gov/bin/gate.exe?f=searchss&state=sce9gb.1.1"; target="_blank">http://tess.uspto.gov/bin/gate.exe?f=searchss&state=sce9gb.1.1</a>;
Your e.mail addresses will all be sold to a broker.
Obviously one of the spymac guys is an industrial design pro, or at least an ID student or something. One of my friends was an ID student, and these look like the kind of "product mockup" projects they were required to make in school. Believe me, I've seen mocked-up kitchen scales, toasters and other products that looked just as "real" and retail-ready as both versions of the iWalk on spymac.com, but none of those models really worked.
Lots of people thought "Alien Autopsy" was real too. To me this is the same thing -- fairly convincing, but not quite all the way there.
Come on...I don't think Apple would use the scroll just for that if that at all. Can't imagine writing on the screen, accidentally hitting the wheel...oops. Screen flipped to new orientation. <hr></blockquote>
Actually, in the video, you have to turn the wheel and then press the button underneath it (power button?); a safety, I suppose.
My big concern there is that the wheel takes up the bottom quarter of the device... that's an enormous waste of space for a function that could just as easily be implemented by a sliding switch on the side of the unit; my hope would be that, if real, the wheel would be more of a browser, like the wheel on the iPod.
I'm convinced the iWalk is real; that is, someone has built it, I'm just not sure that Apple has. If it's a fake, it's a very elaborate fake, and very drool-worthy.
If it's real, then it would pretty much validate the previous iWalk that SpyMac reported on, which may have been a prototype unit.
therefore it is a faked isomething!!!
Like with the lightsabers in the old Star Wars. They would first stand there with no blade for ignition, stop the camera, someone would run out, stick the blade into the handle (or exchange it for a new one), then start the camera again. You would sometimes see a little jump.
It looks like that.
[ 01-03-2002: Message edited by: MacAgent ]</p>
<strong>The wheel not turning in bootup.mov also changes color when it finally decides to follow the finger. What it looks like to me is an actual model first that was overlayed with a CG turning one and they got the timing wrong.
Like with the lightsabers in the old Star Wars. They would first stand there with no blade for ignition, stop the camera, someone would run out, stick the blade into the handle (or exchange it for a new one), then start the camera again. You would sometimes see a little jump.
It looks like that.
[ 01-03-2002: Message edited by: MacAgent ]</strong><hr></blockquote>
Maybe, but the point I made earlier is that there is no good reason for them to have made the button from CG. Give me a couple of days and I could whip up something that looks pretty much the same and that would actually turn. Then again, just because it doesn't make any sense doesn't mean that they didn't do it...
I think a better explanation is that either the guy's thumb was merely glossing the side of the wheel and didn't catch it enough to turn, or maybe the model was just poorly made and it took a bit of force or play before the dial moved.
It's also my opinion that whatever happened combined with a badly-timed glitch in the video or skipped frame, which misses the point where it does start to move (it's a quick operation). We all know the frame rate on this thing isn't the best and it's compressed...probably explains why the image appears to "jump" a little once it does start moving.
Not to say it actually does anything or that it's a real product, but I believe the wheel to be an actual physical object, and thus its odd movement has physical, not CG trickery, explanations.
-S
<strong>At this point (after noon on the day after the posting, PST), doesn't the fact that "thousands" of people have seen their movies, yet none of those are Apple lawyers demanding they remove them, constitute compelling evidence that it's a fake?</strong><hr></blockquote>
I already wrote a post on this. Basically I said it tells us nothing, because.
1. If there are lawyers' demands, many will say that SpyMac made it up in order to complete the hoax.
2. If there are not lawyers' demands, some will say that Apple knows that sicking lawyers on SpyMac constitutes admission of iWalk's existence. Given the widespread nature of the photos/videos, it's to their advantage at this point to simply keep people in doubt until Macworld. Especially since most think the thing is a hoax to begin with.
So you see - no matter what happens with Apple Legal, this forum will be no more or less decided.
-S
It is a fake, I would bet $100 on the fakery.
To whoever made it: I am very impressed! It really looks does look real.
<strong>
I already wrote a post on this. Basically I said it tells us nothing, because.
1. If there are lawyers' demands, many will say that SpyMac made it up in order to complete the hoax.
2. If there are not lawyers' demands, some will say that Apple knows that sicking lawyers on SpyMac constitutes admission of iWalk's existence. Given the widespread nature of the photos/videos, it's to their advantage at this point to simply keep people in doubt until Macworld. Especially since most think the thing is a hoax to begin with.
So you see - no matter what happens with Apple Legal, this forum will be no more or less decided.
-S</strong><hr></blockquote>
Yes, but what about the 10.2 pics on the site???
I think apple might not even know about the site??
-Paul
<strong>
Yes, but what about the 10.2 pics on the site???
I think apple might not even know about the site??
-Paul</strong><hr></blockquote>
Not anymore...
So, whatever Apple Legal does will not tell us much.
[ 01-03-2002: Message edited by: AppleMaster ]</p>
<strong>
Not anymore...
OK, then why would Apple Legal go after one and not the other?
FAKE!! oh well...
-Paul