Asymmetric iPhone 5 Screw Rumor is a Fake

A story about an Apple rumor hoax gets a lot of attention. Attention that I really cannot understand. The Apple rumor mill is full of false rumors and fabricated stories. Swedish Design company Day4...   Drop to Full Story below

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Designer punked fanbois with asymmetric screw

Source: The Register

For a little while, the Apple press fell over itself to analyze the import of a screw that was reportedly going to lock customers and repairers out of the next iPhone forever. The source of the story has no ...
Full article at: The Register  More like this  15 hours ago, 5:54pm CDT

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Quote:
"A friend took a photo a while ago at that fruit company, they are obviously even creating their own screws"

Source: Gizmodo

Update: 6

The 'asymmetric screw' that wasn't: Day4's elaborate Apple hoax

Source: The Verge

Last week, a rumor that Apple is working on an asymmetric screw that would effectively lock users out of their devices ran rampant across the internet. Today, Swedish design company Day4 admitted that the rumor ...
Full article at: The Verge  More like this  17 hours ago, 3:46pm CDT

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Rumored iPhone 5 "asymmetric screw" was phony, attempt to dupe media

Source: AppleInsider

Published: 03:23 PM EST (12:23 PM PST) Reports that Apple would be moving to a new "asymmetric screw" design to make it virtually impossible for users to take apart iPhone 5 were based on a fake rumor design ...
Full article at: AppleInsider  More like this  18 hours ago, 2:53pm CDT

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Apple's Asymmetric Screw Was Fake, Creators Step Forward

Source: Softpedia

The rumored asymmetric screw, allegedly designed by Apple with the purpose of keeping prying hands out of its gadgets, has been confirmed as a fabrication by a firm that specializes in motion graphics. "We wanted to ...
Full article at: Softpedia  More like this  21 hours ago, 11:36am CDT

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The iPhone 5 asymmetric screw? Just a viral hoax

Source: iPhone Download Blog

Day4, the design company, revealed this in a blog post titled "How we screwed (almost) the whole Apple community", explaining that the team had decided to design a rendering of the non-existent screw and publish it th ...
Full article at: iPhone Download Blog  More like this  1 day ago, 8:51am CDT

Update: 1

Apple's new asymmetric screw isn't real, was the work of a Swedish production company

Source: The Next Web

Over the past week, you may have read reports that Apple was looking to introduce a new asymmetric screw that would make it more difficult to perform repairs or explore the innards of its products. Many were apprehensive, and rightly so, ...
Full article at: The Next Web  More like this  1 day ago, 7:31am CDT

A story about an Apple rumor hoax gets a lot of attention. Attention that I really cannot understand. The Apple rumor mill is full of false rumors and fabricated stories. Swedish Design company Day4 managed to get attention to their fabricated iPhone 5 rumor about an asymmetric screw. 

Several blogs covered it (we did not), because anything that has iPhone 5 in it is hot weeks ahead of the iPhone 5 release. To make out of this tiny screw hoax a big ethical story about journalists not checking facts is ridiculous. Go watch Fox News to see some serious hoaxes.

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