Gizmodo.com recently broke a story about how a next generation iPhone went missing from a Bay area bar. The iPhone is now heading back to Apple. How the iPhone actually came to be missing was noted as either 'by hook or by crook'.
To get questions answered as to how this came about, will take some time to get the straight answers.
Basically the Gizmodo article talks about how Gray Powell, an engineer for Apple, spent an evening drinking in a Redwood City, California beer garden and when he left he forgot to bring the device with him.
After discovering the device, the patron at the California watering hole did not return it but rather took it home. They apparently had ever intention of returning it and even managed to locate the Apple Engineer's Facebook page. However, because of the delay, the phone was wiped clean, a feature that MobileMe offers in case of phone theft of loss.
The Gizmodo includes pictures and bio info on Powell as the patron did manage to get this information from Facebook before the phone was blanked. According to the Times and AP, there was a $5,000 finder's fee paid.
Apple of course instantly requested that the phone be returned and this request was eventually met. One has to wonder however, how a company which has been so secretive about new technology could be allowing for employees to be wandering around with such a device outside of secured zones.
Previous iPhones which had the newer software versions running were seen around tow and demoed by engineers. These phones were password protected so leaving a phone at a bar offered no jeopardy.
In comparison, those developing the iPad had to work under super secure circumstance. The device was actually stored in a blacked out room and was tetherd to a stationary object.
Whether this was an actual version or just a decoy is yet to be seen.Regardless of what goes on there are things that are going to happen and there are mistakes that are going to be made.
To get questions answered as to how this came about, will take some time to get the straight answers.
Basically the Gizmodo article talks about how Gray Powell, an engineer for Apple, spent an evening drinking in a Redwood City, California beer garden and when he left he forgot to bring the device with him.
After discovering the device, the patron at the California watering hole did not return it but rather took it home. They apparently had ever intention of returning it and even managed to locate the Apple Engineer's Facebook page. However, because of the delay, the phone was wiped clean, a feature that MobileMe offers in case of phone theft of loss.
The Gizmodo includes pictures and bio info on Powell as the patron did manage to get this information from Facebook before the phone was blanked. According to the Times and AP, there was a $5,000 finder's fee paid.
Apple of course instantly requested that the phone be returned and this request was eventually met. One has to wonder however, how a company which has been so secretive about new technology could be allowing for employees to be wandering around with such a device outside of secured zones.
Previous iPhones which had the newer software versions running were seen around tow and demoed by engineers. These phones were password protected so leaving a phone at a bar offered no jeopardy.
In comparison, those developing the iPad had to work under super secure circumstance. The device was actually stored in a blacked out room and was tetherd to a stationary object.
Whether this was an actual version or just a decoy is yet to be seen.Regardless of what goes on there are things that are going to happen and there are mistakes that are going to be made.
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