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?
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.
Included in the Gizmodo story were photos and bio info on the iPhone engineer who lost the phone. This information had been gleamed from the fellow's Facebook page before the phone was remotely blanked. The Times and AP have also reported that there was a $5,000 finder fee paid out to the patron how found the phone and took it home.
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 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.
There is some speculation that the iPhone that was discovered might be a decoy. However, one has to admit that even with a group as vigilant as Apple mistakes are bound to happen.
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?
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.
Included in the Gizmodo story were photos and bio info on the iPhone engineer who lost the phone. This information had been gleamed from the fellow's Facebook page before the phone was remotely blanked. The Times and AP have also reported that there was a $5,000 finder fee paid out to the patron how found the phone and took it home.
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 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.
There is some speculation that the iPhone that was discovered might be a decoy. However, one has to admit that even with a group as vigilant as Apple mistakes are bound to happen.
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