Apple Gets Concept Renderer to Take Down Concept Art for Being 'Too Realistic'

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Assuming this is true: "Apple’s lawyers said that, and also said that they didn’t want De Rosa to stop posting; “we’d rather talk through the nuances of the issue and ideally find a reasonable solution that works for everyone.”"

That sounds like behaviour which should be encouraged.

By which I mean, don't come in guns-blazing because someone does something which comes close to infringing on your copyright/trade-mark and try to shut-them-down. Have an appreciation of the subtleties and try to agree a good solution for everyone.

> we’d rather talk through the nuances of the issue

In other words, theres a very specific part of what they are doing that the lawyers want them to stop, but they dont want to make it public, and they dont want to make a scene by asking them to stop posting everything.

It's not even that realistic, there's no way they'd be able to fit the cameras in that thin space.

I don’t need this energy

But they can fit a DifuzCam...

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41275832

I think maybe they don't mean realistic in terms of actually plausible so much as photorealistic (i.e. people might see it and think that it's purporting to be an actual photo of an apple product)?

That is a sweet concept. For the first time ever I would probably buy a new iPhone if that was real.

I wish we had iPhones without camera bumps.

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