14 DAY TRIAL // On a trip to the Geneva Apple Retail Store (in Switzerland) one of our tech news editors was delighted to take a few snaps of Apple's new super-light, ultra-thin MacBook Airs, as well as experience the systems hands-on. He also managed to capture a little extra something.
Besides confirming that Apple’s latest notebooks are extremely comfortable to use, very light, and reasonably fast for common tasks such as web browsing, our guy was quite taken with the overall look and feel of the laptops.
He felt he shouldn’t keep all this to himself, so he took the pictures and ran out before black suites hurried to snag his camera and torture him for the Mini SD memory card.
Yes, bottom line, he made it out safe and sound, and now he’s back home with the pictures downloaded on the very Mac I’m writing this on.
Much to my surprise, the images turned out to confirm a product Apple has been rumored to be working on since CEO Steve Jobs came to take back the handles at Apple in 1997 - the iBottle!
We have reason to believe this is not how the Mac maker planned on showing its upcoming revolutionary product to the world, but it seems the cat’s out of the bag now.
Our guy tells us that, upon investigating the iBottle up close, he could confirm that several design elements indicated major discrepancies with the rest of the products in Apple’s ecosystem.
For example, it has no USB ports, screen, or buttons of any kind… no audio jack, not even LEDs.
It does seem to have a lightweight design, and a very transparent user interface, which corroborates early rumors on the subject.
Instead of relying on battery power, it is known to require iWater (a rather common substance comprising atoms of hydrogen and oxygen spread across vast surfaces of our planet) for full functionality.
Compatibility with iCoffee is said to be on the table for a future update, although Softpedia cannot verify this rumor as being the least bit accurate.
What we do know is that the iBottle doubles as a stand for Apple’s new MacBook Air (as pictures #1 and #2 clearly show).
The iBottle confirmed!
The distributors will most likley require Made-for-iBottle certification from Apple in order to legally sell their products.
Other developers will undoubtedly try to capitalize on the fledging product by sourcing various kinds of liquid substances to go inside it.
Some are even carrying out surveys, in anticipation of an announcement from Apple later this year, to figure out what folks would put in their personal iBottles.
We’ve reached out to Cupertino for clarification on the matter, but the company gave us the usual no-comment-on-rumors-and-speculation.
Guess we’ll just have to wait for Steve Jobs to make the proper introductions himself, as usual.
This pamphlet is a satirical take on an accidental finding inside Apple’s actual Geneva retail store in Switzerland. Most of the events described in this report are not real and are, in fact, an exercise of the editor's imagination.