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That's a lot of shade being thrown on Jon Prosser, and a lot of assumptions being made.  Jon never had any "fake scoops".  He reported on things he had been told by insiders he trusted.  "Fake" implies he lied.  "Mistaken" is not the same thing, especially since Apple has made it clear recently that they themselves don't exactly know what they're doing.

We're still two months before WWDC, so anything Jon may have access to is still going to be early in development.  So if these mockups look unfinished and unrefined...yeah, that makes sense.  He also mentioned he was turning his screen brightness down for camera, which explains why the shift and backspace don't look like keys.  But when you compare them to the visionOS keyboard, they look the same with a significantly darker background than the other keys.

When you take a chance and provide a "first look" at something no one else has seen, I guess you run the risk of people not believing you.  When I first saw the new mockups of the 17 lineup, they looked fake to me.  But more info keeps leaking which lends credence to them being accurate.  You can't really be sure mere minutes after seeing something.

How many times has Gurman been wrong?  There's a dude who hasn't had a real "scoop" since he came on the scene before the iPhone 4S.  Most of his reporting seems like "logical guesses" based on supply chain info, but no more accurate or trustworthy than others in the "rumor arena".  He files a report, the usual suspects print the same exact story about what he said today, and will report the same exact story about what he says in two weeks even when the reports change or are contradictory.

And...that's perfectly fine.  No one at AppleInsider or MacRumors or 9to5Mac gets crapped on when they make mistakes.  Why hold Prosser to a different standard?