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'.
How this device went missing will certainly take some time to get answered. How does an apple insider come to misplace or loose a device? Drinking... really?
According to the Gizomodo article, Gray Powell who is an engineer at Apple spent some time in beer garden in Redwood. After a few beverages, he left the California water hole and forgot to bring the device with him.
A patron at the beer garden found the device but didn't take the time to give it to the staff at the beer garden. Instead he took it with him and after playing with it for awhile found the iPhone engineer's Facebook page and had the intention of returning it to him by making contact with him the next day. After the person failed to return the device it was wiped clean remotely through the use of the MobileMe Apple service.
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.
The past summer a person and ran into an Apple developer that was holding an older version of the iPhone but the phone had the new iPhone software on it. This release was one that Apple had already demonstrated publicly. The explanation that he had given was that management was ok with it but he was required to put a password on it that had to be put back on every single time the screen shut off.
In contrast, the iPad was stored in a blacked out room and had to be tethered to a stationary object. It was going nowhere. Developers who were okd to work on this device labored under extremely secure conditions.
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.
How this device went missing will certainly take some time to get answered. How does an apple insider come to misplace or loose a device? Drinking... really?
According to the Gizomodo article, Gray Powell who is an engineer at Apple spent some time in beer garden in Redwood. After a few beverages, he left the California water hole and forgot to bring the device with him.
A patron at the beer garden found the device but didn't take the time to give it to the staff at the beer garden. Instead he took it with him and after playing with it for awhile found the iPhone engineer's Facebook page and had the intention of returning it to him by making contact with him the next day. After the person failed to return the device it was wiped clean remotely through the use of the MobileMe Apple service.
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.
The past summer a person and ran into an Apple developer that was holding an older version of the iPhone but the phone had the new iPhone software on it. This release was one that Apple had already demonstrated publicly. The explanation that he had given was that management was ok with it but he was required to put a password on it that had to be put back on every single time the screen shut off.
In contrast, the iPad was stored in a blacked out room and had to be tethered to a stationary object. It was going nowhere. Developers who were okd to work on this device labored under extremely secure conditions.
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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