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Friday, June 06, 2008, 09:00 am
Aussie Apple resellers receive boxes with "DO NOT OPEN" warning
Australian resellers began receiving mysterious packages from Apple on Friday with a warning across the top that breaching the boxes ahead of June 10th would be a violation of their non-disclosure agreements with the company.mactalk.com.au, which posted the below photo to its forums, notes that June 10th in Australia is actually around the same time of Apple chief executive Steve Jobs's June 9th WWDC keynote in the US. The site adds that it believes the boxes contain a single demonstration 3G iPhone to be displayed by the resellers immediately following the company's announcements.
Earlier this year, the Australian Apple fan site published a report in which it said that local resellers had started to receive guidance from the Cupertino-based company regarding a local 3G iPhone launch during the final week of June.
The report added that the touch-screen handset would arrive unlocked for use on many of the nation's wireless carriers and that Australian Apple resellers, unlike those in the US and Europe, would be privy to market the device to their customers.
In recent weeks both Vodafone and SingTel have announced deals with Apple to market the next-generation iPhone in Australia.
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clearly fake!!!
FAKE...
Apple would not risk... steve being upstaged....
Give me a break here.
A couple points:
1. Why would Apple print out a shipping label on a regular piece of paper and tape it to the box? Everything I've ever received from Apple has been an actual shipping label, not a homemade job of just taping a piece of paper to the box. THIS SCREAMS FAKE.
2. Why would Apple place the shipping label on the bottom of the box?
I'm surprised AppleInsider posted this photo. It's clearly fake.
Hello All,
Just wondered why this article is so confident in its facts?
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2084...next-week.html
You think its just bad journalism?
Give me a break here.
A couple points:
1. Why would Apple print out a shipping label on a regular piece of paper and tape it to the box? Everything I've ever received from Apple has been an actual shipping label, not a homemade job of just taping a piece of paper to the box. THIS SCREAMS FAKE.
2. Why would Apple place the shipping label on the bottom of the box?
I'm surprised AppleInsider posted this photo. It's clearly fake.
Maybe the actual shipping label is on the other side? And that's why this warning label is at the bottom?
But any how it does look/sound fake to me, I mean, its not like Apple hire spys to check up on every single pre-release product package they send out, or electronically GPS tags every box so it sends out a signal when its being opened. I would open it straight away.
Why is it a fake?
why is it not misdirection?
Why hasnt Brendan (Ireland) posted that it IS a REAL LIVE i(Pad) Touch
or as Steve will announce it inside Brendans head "An iPatch"
Why Hasnt Temp Insanity been opened??
My god! Its full of Stars!
or electronically GPS tags every box so it sends out a signal when its being opened. I would open it straight away.
If it's an iPhone, it could send out a signal when it's turned on for the first time.
Count me in the "it's fake" category though.
You would score a huge scoop if you could confirm the contents as that of the 3g iphone.
I think whether this is legit or not depends somewhat upon how important the Australian market is to Apple. If they feel that they want or need to have new iphones to display without any delays on Steves announcement, then I could accept that this is the real deal.
but cmon,.. its not like we cant make a pretty good guess of whats in the revised iphones, anyway.
If someone from here would have read the MacRumors story on this last night you wouldn't have bothered to post this story. It's photoshopped.
How embarrassing.
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Why would they deliver a sample iPhone? Most of the rumors are that it won't look much different... not enough difference that people would go out of their way to see one is there????? Interesting...
Anyway, that's quite an early delivery... 4 days till they can open it. I can understand that it's a long weekend so delivery was on the last working day before Tuesday. Then Tuesday at 4am or so Steve gives his talk and they open the box... but surely it's a huge risk on Apple's part to be 4 days early? (is it possible they meant to deliver Monday evening but forgetting Monday is a holiday they said deliver on the previous working day?)
I guess I'll check back midnight on Tuesday morning to see what it was.... before Steve speaks.
(though quite possibly every reseller will be instructed to open it only afterwards)