Is the Gizmodo iPhone HD scoop fake?

Is the Gizmodo iPhone HD scoop fake?(davidedicillo.com)

21 points by jewgonewild 16 years ago | 11 comments

Which is more likely: Someone created a truly impressive and convincingly realistic fake iphone which they subsequently "lost" in the hopes that someone would find it and leak/sell it to the media.

Mr. Sewell has a lot of oldish letterhead that he needs to use up?

Anon84 16 years ago | |

Well, now that you mention it... http://www.reallifecomics.com/comics/2010/20100420_2439.png

davidedicillo 16 years ago | |

I'm sure that's the real deal, I thought it was funny that in a company so design oriented, a VP still uses letterhead from 2005. Usually big companies destroy the old stationery after a branding change.

bmalicoat 16 years ago |

If Apple's 'green' claims are to be taken seriously they can't be throwing out all sorts of paper when they update their logo or font.

ugh 16 years ago |

I never thought I would write this – but, yeah, that’s linkbait.

The article is about the stationary of the letter Gizmodo got from Apple, asking them to give the iPhone back. The stationary seems out of date.

djcapelis 16 years ago | |

Now if it was stationary from the future well then it'd be a real story!

jordanmessina 16 years ago |

Considering how much negative publicity Gizmodo has received after all this, I'd think they would admit if they made it up by now...

anigbrowl 16 years ago | |

They're about to get a whole lot more, I think. http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1280955

kylebragger 16 years ago |

I noticed that the letter says "sent via email" — perhaps this is just a recreation by Gizmodo based on the text of the email...

davidedicillo 16 years ago | |

That's also when the paper copy is a hard copy of an email previously sent.

tzs 16 years ago |

He offers no evidence than Apple has some a wide standard for letterhead. That was a pretty worthless article.

noelchurchill 16 years ago |

Maybe legal department is the last to get the latest updated stationary.