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I remember the last so-called Apple product fake - the G4 Cube. The now-defunct site The Mac Junkie claimed that the leaked photo of the Cube was an utter fabrication. He gave some "evidence" of why he thought he was right, such as "Photoshop fingerprints."

Courtesy of archive.org's cached copy: "To conclude, I will eat my hat if Jobs unveils this very machine tomorrow. No, wait - I'll eat my hockey puck mouse."

The following morning, after Jobs announced it at MacWorld, the site went down temporarily and then permanently not long after. Oh well!

Ian

Remembering the hoo-ha about the Apple Cube photos, and how Mac Junkie thought they were a fraud, I don't get too worked-up about arguments over photographic 'evidence' anymore.

Sorry for the self-promotion, but there's full coverage including live keynote news, impressions of the keynote, and a PB G4 vs Sony Vaio comparison, at http://www.themacjunkie.com.

Er, this happened about a month ago. Check out the connections between Apple and the GAMECUBE. http://www.themacjunkie.com/archives/8.23.00.ninte ndo.html

Apple produced the Cube....
Mac Junkie posted a story saying they faked the story as a test.

Elsewhere I basicly said the same as above.
Yeah... Apple produced the stupid thing...
Hay I don't like being lied to anymore than you do... I saw the story on Mac Junkie and jumpped on it...

according to the web site, its number 2. It's also number 5, but hell... :-)

Is this the link you're looking for?

Check out this statement on theMacJunkies: http://www.themacjunkie.com/readme.html

"Our site has been deleted. No, seriously."

Is this the revenge of MacOsRumors?

And now The Mac Junkie points to Addr.com too...
Too bad. If you disclose then you die...

In the case of the Cube... It gave them a chance to pick apart the pictures that AppleInsider whipped up...

Yeah apples just throwing out those legal threats and this could get apple in trouble.
This is why legal experts are used to write thies letters but then legal experts usually know better that to make no-case threats...

There's another macjunkie page here, which reveals that there will be an 8"-on-a-side cube. Their product grid is now six-squared.

Whoo-hoo!

Was the comment about Cease and desist orders suppose to be a joke? or serious? Because this story on themacjunkie mentions receiving one early this morning. The article it refers to has a picture (which they presume if fake) of the G4 Cube. If you check out this story it says the picture was removed because of the Apple Legal department.

Are these are serious, or is this one big joke because of what happened a week or so ago?

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It certainly helps the reputation of MacInsider considering

...that it's posted on another website?


-- Floyd

Sorry, I know the situation you're currently in. You see, I too used to be a MOSR victim. Yes, I read all the Mac rumors sites back in the good old days before Steve Jobs took the helm and clamped down on any legit product info. I watched as site after site closed down or started spewing crap, but I didn't know that they were spewing crap for over a year.

Ryan Meader is full of crap. The Mac Junkie site documents in good detail how willing MOSR is to take anything and post it up as from legit sources. My eyes were opened by parody site mosr.net and other sites, and my own critical eye has caught Apple Insider fibbing on occasion, though they seem to be less obsessed with putting something, anything out no matter how blatantly false it is.

If you want legit news, go to Macintouch or MacNN, but don't trust the rumors sites. They haven't had good hit-miss ratios for over 2 years or so, and since they are in the entertainment business, they don't really care. I just regret getting my Dad hooked on the damn site.

According to this link, MOSR will accept anybody's word as a "reliable source." Some guy wrote in and claimed he had more details, and within hours, his comments were posted.

This has some interesting ramifications for Apple's legal team's policies. It means they just arbitrarily threaten anything that gets any publicity on the net, thereby drawing no distinction between rumors that are true and rumors that arent. I guess they really have two choices. It's clear that they cant treat true posts differently than false ones, thereby lending credence to some of them, so they either have to threaten everyone they notice or nobody at all. I guess threatening everybody makes them feel important and useful to the rest of apple.

it's a complete fabrication. either ryan meader is a compulsive fantasist or there's a whole group out there who like to play at being a leet source. most likely some sort of complicity between the two.

anyway, the proof is at http://www.themacjunkie.com/archives/7.11.00.rumor s.html. either it's a rather neat sting. or i am the victim of some cunning triple bluff, which would kind of prove the point anyway.

I think it's time for all of us mac moonies to understand that the rumor sites are roughly on a par with the wwf (not the wildlife one): a circus performance in which real people may or may not get hurt but the whole thing is constructed for our prurience and the profit of a small number of dubious egomaniacs.

I can't believe /. didn't know about this already, the news has been out for weeks! Cyan is developing a real-time version of the original Myst game, in addition to Presto's Myst Special Edition and Myst III: Exile.

got mac?

Will Apple Offer Wireless Web Access Via Satellite?

6/13/00 - On Sunday, SpaceViews.com reported that Apple is partnering with SkyCorp to send a web server into space for the first time in history. Next year, a PowerMac G4 will enter the Earth's orbit equipped with modified AirPort technology, and rain fiery death down upon Redmond. Sorry, that was a typo... - Ben Apple

Neal Stephenson's "In The Beginning, Was The Command Line..."

http://www.themacjunkie.com/arc hives/6.5.00.ms.html

Speaking of Neal Stephenson, there's a bit about his book "In The Beginning, Was The Command Line" at The MacJunkie.