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Australian retailers receive sealed boxes from Apple
According to a report from Australian Apple enthusiast site MacTalk, a number of Australian resellers have received sealed packages from Apple, which are not to be opened until Tuesday June 10 — the same day (in Australia) as Steve Jobs’ keynote address. Little more is known about the smallish boxes, which are labeled “Subject to terms of NDA: Do not open until Tuesday June 10th 2008.” MacTalk’s sources believe that the packages contain next-generation iPhones, to be used for promotional purposes prior to the handset’s launch in Australia. [via Mac Rumors]
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1
Quick. Find an x-ray machine.
Posted by otaku on June 6, 2008 at 7:02 AM (PDT)
2
It’s an Apple loyalty test. It contains an angry cobra with only enough air to live until the 10th.
Posted by ort on June 6, 2008 at 7:17 AM (PDT)
3
OMG, that’s so fake. Are you kidding? Apple’s going to send out a box with a huge logo and “Please don’t open until Xmas!” plastered on the front? Geez ... Come on, people. Get it together.
Posted by bobby bobby on June 6, 2008 at 7:57 AM (PDT)
4
omg i work at an apple reseller in australia. i am now looking forward to work tomorrow.
Posted by wlp on June 6, 2008 at 7:58 AM (PDT)
5
“It’s an Apple loyalty test. It contains an angry cobra with only enough air to live until the 10th.”
LMAO!
Posted by Mark on June 6, 2008 at 8:19 AM (PDT)
6
It could be real. At my job, we got the last Harry Potter book like 5 days before it came out, with a sign like that… and I work at a grocery store. We still haven’t sold one.
Posted by Mike on June 6, 2008 at 12:46 PM (PDT)
7
Done the shake test yet?
Posted by Lukas on June 6, 2008 at 1:07 PM (PDT)
8
Smells like a fake to me.
Posted by Edgar on June 6, 2008 at 1:18 PM (PDT)
9
I dare you to open it.
Posted by mike on June 6, 2008 at 1:32 PM (PDT)
10
The unboxed version of iPhoen G2 ?????
http://www.web-mobile.net/index.php?showtopic=28955&st=0&#e;ntry377550
Posted by oohTony on June 6, 2008 at 4:05 PM (PDT)
11
Probably just a box of refurb’d Newtons.
Posted by Flippy Hambone on June 6, 2008 at 5:26 PM (PDT)
12
Just another kiddie pr stunt. they know that is gonna leak out on sites like this, and you gadget geeks are all giddy over a box now!!
Posted by Keatah on June 8, 2008 at 11:23 AM (PDT)
13
it has a run-one-time photosensor and software in it. if opened you violate your NDA when it connects to the network.
Posted by Keatah on June 8, 2008 at 11:25 AM (PDT)