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Apple Loses Another Unreleased iPhone
By siliconindia
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Saturday, 03 September 2011, 01:07 IST
Bangalore: Mistakes are inevitable, but the lessons we inherit from them are indispensible. Apple being such an accomplished multi-national corporation seems ignorant about its past mistakes.
Apple makes news again, and this time it's for losing an unreleased top secret iPhone prototype.
According to CNet, an Apple employee had misplaced the device in Cava22, a bar in San Francisco's Mission district. The iPhone was missing since July, and the device was discovered by Apple security. It seems that whoever lifted the iPhone was as smart as Brian Hogan, who sold last year's prototype to gadget blog Gizmodo for $5000. There are evidences that the iPhone lifter may have sold the device on Craigslist for just $200, as reported by CNet.
There is nothing much to add to the report other than this. CNet sources hold no information regarding on what iOS device it was running, the features of the device and other details. Few days after the device went missing, Apple representatives contacted San Francisco police and reported that the company was desperate to secure the safe return of the device as it was priceless.
The device was traced in San Francisco's Bernal Heights. San Francisco police and Apple investigators turned up at the location and enquired a man in his twenties, who was supposed to be present at Cava22 on the night the iPhone went missing. But he allowed the police to search his house and denied about any information regarding the iPhone. Though the Apple investigators offered money to the man, he still kept denying.
Last year Apple engineer accidentally left his iPhone 4 prototype in a beer garden in Redwood City, which was picked by Brain, who sold it to Gizmodo for $5000.
Apple is, however, showing extra caution with its new prototypes, reports CNET but its latest preventive measures may not be able to deal with absent minded employees.
