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Apple Loses Another iPhone Prototype at a Bar

If for sake of conversation this was an Apple "stunt" they certainly are not the least bit creative. To lose it in a bar? Been there, done that, perhaps Apples memory is a bit rusty.

But then again, Apple may be very worried that they cannot generate enough buzz for this warmed over, iPhone 4 look alike. Small screen and all.

I still say they will sell a massive number, simply because it's Apple. It's Magical & Revolutionary... yes it is! :)
 
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e-coli said:
That's what happens when you have a company filled with heavily overworked late 20's early 30's employees. When they get out to play, they play hard. And then they lose the priceless prototypes they've had in their pockets for 4 months. :p
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Truth
 
FroMann said:
Apple has to be doing this as a marketing stunt, how can an employee lose another phone at another bar?
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yup. and CNET was the source of all places. Companies send controlled leaks to CNET quite often, and also the WSJ.
 
What I did when I read this:
 

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If it was "priceless" as Apple supposedly said, then they would have been smarter to offer that guy $10,000+ for its safe return instead of just sending the police.

Now it's probably working its way into some reporter's (or Apple lover's) hands.

Edit: Apparently an Apple employee with the police did offer cash, no questions asked. Of course, the person would have to be an idiot to agree to that right after telling the police he had no idea where it was. Lesson 1: don't bring cops to a bribe buyback attempt.
 
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OK cut the ***** and what is really going on here? Are these people trying to do something other then just losing a iPhone at bars? What in the hell is going on?
 
ECUpirate44 said:
Is this a joke?
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Very possibly. Biggest suspect detail is the claim that Apple contacted the police a day or two later. Don't think so. The moment that said employee got home and figured out that the phone wasn't in his/her pocket he would have called the bosses and they would have called the police. an hour or two at most. They wouldn't wait for hours and hours because the assumption would be that anyone that snatched a free iPhone, prototype or not, would have figured that the phone could be tracked unless you wiped it.

Also, this was allegedly in July and yet where are the copious rumors with drawings and such. The amount we've gotten are way too low for a leaked prototype.


Arcus said:
Any normal person loses a phone and calls the police and what would they get? Nada. Why is it that tax dollars are being spent on a LOST item. It was not stolen.
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Actually sugar, under California state law, as discussed ad nauseum last year, a lost item that is found but not returned to the proper owner is stolen.

johnydecali said:
they prbly arent allowed to use any third party apps
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Find My iPhone is an Apple app


ebbandflo said:
All at the cost of the poor guy who finds the phone and tries to make a couple of extra bucks by selling it online.
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IF Apple did it they don't have to lose anything. They could just have someone call CNET from a phone that can't be traced back to Apple with a hot story. Best part is that they know that CNET would print it and every blog would reprint it because the whole thing hit whores love more than stories about Apple are negative stories about Apple. Someone calls the bar the next morning asking about an iPhone and the if the whole house story is true the guy is probably an Apple employee or some such
 
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oneschance said:
there is no dang "low cost iPhone". What for?
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because, the biggest emerging market in the mobile industry right now are low cost smartphones and feature phones.

I'll guarantee you Apple will announce a cheaper phone that will probably replace the iPhone4. We can paypal this.
 
Yeah.

I'm not a newb said:
And nobody will ever find it because it looks exactly like an iPhone 4. So whoever has it, probably doesn't realize they have the latest, greatest. They think they found a free iPhone 4, which is still f-n sweet.
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This.

The guy who found it at the bar thought it was a 4 and just sold it on craigslist to pick up some coin (I bet there was $200 in the guys wallet!).

He probably didn't bother too heavily to look into it or might not even be a techie - just knows enough that iPhones are expensive and found one at a bar and too bad so sad.

Meanwhile, Apple's "secret device" that allows phone tracking no doubt knows EXACTLY where it is.
 
I've had enough of this...

******* you Apple. Cops have better things to do with their time in this city. You want your precious prototype back? Find it yourself.

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10 bucks this was an executive that begged and begged to have his little toy...

Put him on the street, can't handle his booze!
 
Regardless of how the Apple employee "lost" it, they showed extreme irresponsibility. Don't brandish a prototype, don't talk about the prototype, dont take the prototype in environments of risk. I'd think any apple employee deemed responsible enough to take a prototype off an Apple campus would guard it with their life, their career certainly depends on it.
 
toddybody said:
Regardless of how the Apple employee "lost" it, they showed extreme irresponsibility. Don't brandish a prototype, don't talk about the prototype, dont take the prototype in environments of risk. I'd think any apple employee deemed responsible enough to take a prototype off an Apple campus would guard it with their life, their career certainly depends on it.
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Blame it on the alcohol !!!!!!:D


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sh6oGwOMVeY
 
Look at the timing... isn't the "iPhone killer" from Samsung launching around this time? Look at the timing last year... wasn't the Google phone launching when the iPhone 4 showed up?

Apple is smart -- they're getting people to talk, getting free publicity, and overshadowing the so-called iPhone killers that launched, respectively.

It's just predictable now.

mpstrex
 
You'd think Apple would have learned that iPhone prototypes should not be taken anywhere remotely near bars after last year's debacle. That is, if this actually happened.
 
mpstrex said:
Look at the timing... isn't the "iPhone killer" from Samsung launching around this time? Look at the timing last year... wasn't the Google phone launching when the iPhone 4 showed up?

Apple is smart -- they're getting people to talk, getting free publicity, and overshadowing the so-called iPhone killers that launched, respectively.

It's just predictable now.

mpstrex
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What iPhone killer? There's NO iPhone killer. Not even close. We all know that.

I have fun with my Android phone, but my iPhone 4 only needs a larger screen & a better antenna, to be as close to perfect as any phone could be.
 
Sounds like BS but would have told apple and cops to get a warrant before allowing any search. Since nothing was found, sue apple for false accusation. Since when does a local police department help any company without filing a report of a crime? Was it a crime? Apple is starting to sound like the old nazi polzi.
 
vitzr said:
What iPhone killer? There's NO iPhone killer. Not even close. We all know that.

I have fun with my Android phone, but my iPhone 4 only needs a larger screen & a better antenna, to be as close to perfect as any phone could be.
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You did notice my sarcasm right? ;)

This sucker:

http://tv.ibtimes.com/samsung-galaxy-s2-iphone-killer-set-to-hit-u-s-shelves/1771.html

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wickoo said:
As for the lost iPhone, I think it really might be just a clever marketing of the bar/restaurant.
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Or that. The whole story does smell fishy...

mpstrex
 
Haha they really need to stop letting their highly-trusted employees carrying their priceless prototypes from going out drinking at bars around town... Alcohol almost always equals lost phone...Or in my case at least ;)
 
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