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kfulqin said:

I think that this practice by Apple is misleading and not transparent.  It's sleazy marketing.

sloth77 said:

coolfactor said:

bulk001 said:

As an Apple site, why no mention Apple and their iPad  commercial crushing all the humanity out of art and music into computer generated art? 

Maybe because — that is just one interpretation? Apple likely intended it to be a fun way to show "condensing a full stage into your device", which is a different interpretation. In any form of art, interpretation is a huge aspect, and yet the loudest group tends to win over in the end. It's a shame because it was a fun commercial.

Indeed, a storm in a teacup.

Marvin said:

mike1 said:

I wouldn't trust the color accuracy of that photo one bit. The lighting for the photo was awful too.

Usually they look different in store from leaked photos. It could easily look more like the top model in the image below, which looks fine:

mpantone said:

It's bronze, people. Not beige, not the dirt brown of the Microsoft Zune media player.

Anyhow, if this rumor ends up being true, judgment should be passed with some better product photography or better yet, an in-person visual assessment rather than some dodgy X photo that may or may not be true. With generative AI in 2024, these types of photos can be easily churned out.

More than ever, it's foolhardy to believe everything you read/see on the Internet as fact without doing a minimum of due diligence. Which can't happen before Apple officially announces their next generation iPhone family.

This thread is a good example of assessing who is naive and who isn't.

eightzero said:

I see we now have entered the future where we predict the price of a product before anyone knows what it does or what it is for.