6 Biggest Apple Conspiracies
Gizmodo and The Lost iPhone.
In the spring of 2010, an Apple engineer unknowingly left his iPhone prototype at a California bar and a person picked it up. The phone was in a third generation case, which made him realize that he had something incredible in his hands. He sold the phone to the website Gizmodo for $5,000 who immediately ran a story about the highly-anticipated phone's look and features. Virtually overnight, Gizmodo started feeling intense blowback, including an aggressive criminal investigation and a police raid on Editor Jason Chen home and computers were seized. But some observers figure out Apple benefitted in spite of the leak, as the new iPhone got tons of free publicity. With security so tight at Apple, there were suspicions that Apple and Gizmodo were conspiring, to buzz for the iPhone's second coming.
