UPDATE: I’m kinda late to clue into this, but as Trent Lapinsky of AppleXnet pointed out in the comments, this looks suspiciously like one of Apple’s Design Award trophies. Thanks Trent!
MacDailyNews has a totally fishy but intriguing picture of what purports to be an Apple-branded media cube.
Supposedly, the blurry picture was snapped with a camera-phone and sent to the site anonymously with the following note:
“I was only able to snap one quick shot of this as I was only in there for about 30 seconds. I sort of stumbled upon it – can’t say more about how or why. I only got about half a sec to look around back – there are a bunch of ports (and maybe a button or two) neatly arranged on the back (?) of the cube in a line along the bottom edge. It’s about 8-inches square and 8-inches tall – a perfect cube. It seems to be made out of a similar material as a Power Mac – aluminum perforated with a round hole pattern, but they’re smaller holes than found on a Power Mac. The top is the same material as the sides with the addition of the Apple logo, even though it doesn’t look like it in the photo – I had to snap it quick, sorry.
I don’t have any real detail on exactly what it’s designed to do, but I know from other things I can’t mention that it’s media-related. Apple “Media Cube,” maybe? Anyway, thought you guys would be interested.
12 responses to “Mac Media Cube?”
*Sigh* here we go again. Please name ONE time….even ONE, where one of these “spy shoots” of a new Apple product turned out to be real. That’s right……it’s never happened!!….it’s all bollocks! And this is so obviously a photo of a gray cardboard box with a bit of added blur.
Agreed. This is phony phony phony. I also doubt that Apple would make a media center that looks like a grey, sharp-edged cardboard box. There is nothing sexy about that photo.
Man. I mean, I don’t mind a good pre-Mac announcement hoax if it demonstrates good reasonable PhotoShop skills. But this? Must’ve taken, what, half an hour? For crying out loud.
http://developer.apple.com/ada…
yeah, click on the link to see a better image of the new “mystery apple hardware.” its the apple design award like the prevous poster said.. the link is a nice pic to see that it’s really fake.
Please name ONE time….even ONE, where one of these “spy shoots” of a new Apple product turned out to be real. That’s right……it’s never happened!!
Umm… let’s see. In the last year alone there was the mini, the iPod with video, and while not a photo – there is the “asteroid” thing that Apple was willing to sue to get a site to shut up about.