Pack93z
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15 years ago
Can you imagine trying to explain that.. lol.

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/04/20/technology/companies/20apple.html?hp 

For anyone who has ever lost a cellphone, remember this: it could be worse. You could be the person who left his phone in a bar in California. And it wasnt just any phone; it was a supersecret version of the next iPhone. That model is not expected to be formally unveiled for a couple of months.

For the people at Apple, it must be like a bad version of the guy walks into a bar joke.

The company is known as the most secretive in Silicon Valley, and leaks are rare. But after the phone prototype was left in a bar in the Silicon Valley town of Redwood City, photos of the device began appearing over the weekend in technology blogs, sparking a frenzy of hype among the Apple-obsessed.

Before long, pictures of the product appeared on Gizmodo, a technology news site, whose editors ripped it apart as if it were an alien from another planet to dissect its features. The Web site said late Monday that the phone belonged to an Apple engineer.

The phones authenticity was hotly debated, but most bloggers concluded it was real. And a person with knowledge of Apples hardware plans who was not authorized to speak on behalf of the company confirmed to The New York Times that it was real.

Apple declined to comment.

It is very stunning, said Tim Bajarin, president of Creative Strategies, who has been following Apple for nearly three decades. Apple has such tight control on new products, and they are kept under wraps diligently and religiously until the day of their release. If it is true, it is really a first.

Some wondered whether the phone was planted by Apples formidable publicity machine.

For the sake of the person who dropped it, I hope this is a devious marketing scheme, said Paul Saffo, a veteran Silicon Valley forecaster. But I think it is unlikely. There is no one else on the planet whose shoes I would less like to be in it at the moment.

In a blog post on Monday detailing how it obtained the phone, Gizmodo said it was left by an iPhone software engineer at Gourmet Haus Staudt, a German specialty store and beer garden in Redwood City.

The person who found the phone peddled it to Gizmodo, which bought it for $5,000, Nick Denton, chief executive of Gawker Media, which owns Gizmodo, said by instant message.

His companys sites have had a longstanding practice of paying for scoops, and the windfall was tangible. Traffic spiked on Monday, and at midday more than one million visitors stopped by the site in one hour to see pictures of the coveted gadget.

By late in the day, reports began to surface on the Internet that Apples chief executive, Steven P. Jobs, had called Gizmodo to get the device back. Mr. Denton declined to comment, saying any conversation between Mr. Jobs and Gizmodo would most likely have been off the record.

We havent had any formal communication with Apple, he said. Brian Lam, the editor in chief of Gizmodo, said his publication would probably return the device to Apple.

From the front, it looks similar to the current iPhone, but it has sharper edges and is a little thinner. The volume and power buttons are stylistically different, and the back of the phone appears to be a ceramic glass, which would enable better reception. That would address a persistent problem that has plagued the iPhone since its inception three years ago.

Late Monday night, Gizmodo said that it received a letter from Bruce Sewell, Apples senior vice president and general counsel, requesting the phone back. It has come to our attention that Gizmodo is currently in possession of a device that belongs to Apple, Mr. Sewell wrote in a letter that Gizmodo published.

This letter constitutes a formal request that you return the device to Apple, the letter said.


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Porforis
15 years ago
My vote is publicity stunt.
tromadz
15 years ago

My vote is publicity stunt.

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Zero2Cool
15 years ago
lol stupid Apples.
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zombieslayer
15 years ago
Lame.

I was thinking it would be something cool, like he had photos on his phone of Bill Clinton and Laura Bush playing hide the salami.

Yeah, probably publicity stunt. People are starting to buy those Google phones.
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rabidgopher04
15 years ago
So some guy gets to walk away with $5000 for selling property that isn't his? How does that work?
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Nonstopdrivel
15 years ago
Finders, keepers, my friend.

It's not like Gizmodo is asking for their cash back. They got something like 15 million hits off this story. They've made back their money in spades.
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Pack93z
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15 years ago
Apparently you didn't read the last sentence.. 😉
"The oranges are dry; the apples are mealy; and the papayas... I don't know what's going on with the papayas!"
Nonstopdrivel
15 years ago
Pardon? It was Gizmodo that paid the guy cash, not Apple. Even if Gizmodo surrenders the iPhone to Apple, I doubt they'll ask the guy for their cash back, since they've easily made it back in advertising revenues.
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Zero2Cool
15 years ago
I read the article and few other stories, I don't recall the guy/gal being let go? Was this the person let go or am I being tricked by the title?
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