Apple's Black Friday deals leaked?
According to BGR: Yes! We're still not liking the raised "am" and 25% seems like very un-Apple like discounts. Here's Apple's Black Friday site.
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sweet!
These rumors are totally fake. It is likely an attempt by a competitor to fool consumers into believing that there will be massive Apple discounts soon. When the discounts don't appear, the competitor, whose prices are likely 25% lower than Apple's, might pick up a few extra sales.
And all it took was a very low cost "fake" ad leak.
This kind of shilling is rampant. The majority of the rumors you hear about exist only to confuse the buying public.
I call fake. Doesn't fit in at all with Apple's previous marketing strategies for Black Friday, and this poster is trying to. As for the deals, no idea. But the poster is fake.
What are the chances of the new MacBook Pro updates being released for Black Friday? Cause that would make me really happy...
I don't know how much longer I can hold out, so if they are offering something like the 25% off, I may have to give in.
macbook pro updates what? they released one a few months ago with the 7-hour battery and an SD card slot!
yeah, dream on.
no 25% off and no updates until at least january/feb
keep this handy: http://buyersguide.macrumors.com/
What are the chances of the new MacBook Pro updates being released for Black Friday? Cause that would make me really happy...
I don't know how much longer I can hold out, so if they are offering something like the 25% off, I may have to give in.
Doesn't look Apple-y enough to me.
There's not a chance Apple will discount their Macs by 25%.
Plus, that poster screams fake - very un-apple.
Fake. 25% of all Macs? Duh. Never in a million years.
That is last years black friday site as evident by there is a unibody 13" Macbook.
I doubt it's real but to those saying it's fake because they are offering 25% off Macs, they say UP TO 25%. Which I interpret to mean probably 10% off the lower end stuff and 25% off only the very higher end items. Which is not unbelievable to me. Best Buy is offering the $999 new Macbook with a 150 Gift Card on Black Friday, so essentially 15% off.
fake - fake - fake
why is every comment in here 3 times why is every comment in here 3 times why is every comment in here 3 times
Fake to the power infinity
this is fake. gift wrapping wont begin till mid december and 25% off a mac is what the employees get. so i dout this us true at all
This is fake. I can tell because the picture in the background was not made by Apple Inc. I actually found that picture in the background before on another website.
They are smoking crack if they think this is real. There is no way in hell, with as well as Macs are selling these days they would offer 25%. OK art job but not realistic at all.
Fake. Unless they're having a go out of business liquidation... Get real people.
Yeah, like mentioned before, that is a desktop image not made by Apple faded in the background. Can be found here:
http://technology.desktopnexus.com/wallpaper/8235/
I briefly used this as an iPhone wallpaper last winter.
http://api.ning.com/files/uQzc4C36qjeLUYzUtF5sPC9W7dAk*W8ZjE9drE9gA4XFrT...
Plus the ad is weak sauce! What is that, built in photoshop snowflake shape with a drop shadow? Lame. What's that red ribbon crap too? I'm a graphic design student and even I wouldn't make something this bad.
The last one is too wordy. The real Apple would have said "Up to 15% off everything else"
this is clearly fake, could be a publicity stunt by a stock holder to increase the hype....clearly this is horribly photoshopped. Apple's sales and marketing products do not get released to retail from corporate until 3-5 days before Black Friday, sometimes less than 24hours. This is also inconsistent with Apple's previous Black Friday Sales. FAKE
Did anyone notice the iMacs on there were the old 20" iMacs? I suspect this is only a mockup, or an old link.
The funny thing is nothing is on sale. It's all the same price as it was last month. Also funny is, and I may be wrong, I thought Apple gave up the 20 inch iMac when they did away with the 24 inch iMac.
Apple would never use Superscript for the "am".
1. The wording is not consistent with Apple's branding which is two short sentences, eg.
The perfect gift. Perfected.
2. Apple never capitalizes the 's' in iPod shuffle.
3. The white logo on the red ribbon is not their branding; they are using a red ribbon with a white tag featuring a red logo. The ribbon also has texture as opposed to being a poorly drawn red stripe.
4. The Apple logo is not prominent enough. Apple's has a lot of value in their logo and so this design would get thrown out at draft stage.
5. The word 'gift-wrapping' is not hyphenated in the Apple Store.
There's plenty more, but more importantly, the discounts themselves are unbelievable; Apple doesn't need to discount this much; it would ruin their brand to do so.
If this is real, I'll eat my iPhone.
I'm diggin the sloppy hand-drawn ribbon. Straight edges suck.
I can confirm that this is fake. Trust me.
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