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Circumstances Surrounding Lost Next Gen iPhone Detailed

TMay said:
There isn't ANYBODY that wouldn't have noticed immediately that this wasn't a typical iPhone.
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The phone looks the same from the front except for the front-facing camera. If you are drinking in the poor lighting of a typical bar, it would seem pretty easy to miss that detail. I dont think an average person would inspect the iPhone. Its not like you expect to find something different. They are everywhere now.

However, I do think there is more to this story.
 
Jerks!

I accidently left my 1st gen iPhone at a store last year and never saw it again. You just know that someone could have "done the right thing" and turned it in to lost and found, but no, that someone kept it.

Of course I felt stupid for forgetting I left it behind but - damn - do people really have to suck so much?

And another thing, I remember a while back when the jerks at Gizmodo took a universal remote to a trade show and "ha-ha" were shutting off the presenters monitors during their presentations. What a bunch of A@@holes.

Screw you Gizmodo!:mad:
 
compuguy1088 said:
Lookie:

http://gizmodo.com/5520479/a-letter-apple-wants-its-secret-iphone-back

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It seems Apple has officially asked for their "device" back....

If this doesn't seal the authenticity of it being an Apple device........
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Nah, a fake prototype made by apple still belongs to apple
 
From Gizmodo's reply back to Apple..

"P.S. I hope you take it easy on the kid who lost it. I don't think he loves anything more than Apple except, well, beer."

Lol:D I thought that was pretty halarious
 
The whole thing stinks to me.

If Apple made a prototype for testing, why have the back all decorated with the Apple badge, FCC crap, etc etc? Why not just a plain jane phone with all the internals intact?

I cannot imagine that a company this secretive about everything let someone take a prototype like that off campus let alone out for a night of drinking.

I guess we will see in a few months but I suspect if this thing really belongs to Apple it is an elaborate hoax....

T.
 
Tampa Tom said:
All this sounds so "Un-Apple" that I find it hard to believe. I can't imagine Apple letting a software guy going out with an unreleased iPhone. I know they have to do field tests, but this seems incredulous.
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See post #379 above. And please read the link in it.

Field tests are run in bars as well as many other places. And it's really easy to leave a phone on a stool. Heck, Dell figured out that people in the USA lose 12,000 laptops per week (!!!) in airports, and they're much bigger devices.

P.S. As a UNC alumnus, I can categorically state that Apple's primary mistake in this case was letting anyone from NCSU go out to a bar with such a phone ;)
 
Warbrain said:
I thought Engadget was bad enough.

Gizmodo is nothing but a bunch of *******s running a website.

I take it back, Engadget, you actually understand a little bit of journalism and that you don't pay for an exclusive like Gizmodo. And then out the poor Apple employee.
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Giz is a joke now. Nothing more than a gossip site. First they publish all of Tiger Woods text messages with that porn star etc etc, now they drop this guys name like it's no biggy. They have no class over there, but it is 2010 and everyone hides behind their computers, soooo what can you do :(
 
MacRumors is a pawn in their game.

With the confidence of someone with an average I.Q., MacRumors headlines currently "...how the next generation iPhone was lost...", acknowledging that this is factually the new piece of poorly designed hardware from the world's most exacting design haus. They've sold their soul, that Mr. Kim and krew. They must have ads on their website or something, or might get the contractual HJ from Apple hired HJers, ya know, so they can propagate "properly" for the big fruit.

How is it obviously BS? Gizmodo won't show us the "connect to iTunes screen." A $50 scanner could reveal the resolution.

There is no reason at all for a device to ever leave the Infinite Loop. Planted. But here I am ranting, so the planter has succeeded I suppose. Sigh...
 
Outdoordude01 said:
I call fake on the letter; if this is an initial legal attach by Apple written by their General Counsel, it is the poorest letter I've ever seen from a General Counsel of a major corporation. I guarantee that the letter would not end with "Please let me know where to pick up the unit."
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First you all claim that the new iPhone is unapply and now you claim the letter is a fake. I now claim that the oxygen that you breathe is a fake.
 
Outdoordude01 said:
I call fake on the letter; if this is an initial legal attach by Apple written by their General Counsel, it is the poorest letter I've ever seen from a General Counsel of a major corporation. I guarantee that the letter would not end with "Please let me know where to pick up the unit."
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lol you guys don't believe anything.
 
swingerofbirch said:
It's cool that they posted the pics and video, very skeezy that they named the guy . . . although now that I think about it, having the public on his side could make it less likely he's fired. Because now everyone will want to know if he gets fired or not, it's more pressure on Apple to play it cool and let it pass.
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The guy goes out to a BAR with a prototype iPhone in his pocket... and then LEAVES IT ON A BARSTOOL!??!! Call me heartless, but that is one stupid move. If an employee of mine did something that dumb, I'd probably fire him too unless he had a DAMN good reason. I'd feel sorry for him sure, but MAN is that guy stupid (that is, if it doesn't end up being a publicity stunt).
 
Huh? what? There was a new iPhone leaked? That's weird, haven't seen anything about it on macrumors..




All joking aside, this is some good drama.
 
Outdoordude01 said:
I call fake on the letter; if this is an initial legal attach by Apple written by their General Counsel, it is the poorest letter I've ever seen from a General Counsel of a major corporation. I guarantee that the letter would not end with "Please let me know where to pick up the unit."
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Au contraire. Average counsel would use three pages of boilerplate in this situation. Good counsel with $50 billion in the bank behind them know that very clearly and succinctly communicating your intent is the way to go here. Another example:

http://www.2600.com/news/1018-files/gm.gif

In this case, Apple didn't need three sentences to introduce the demand, because "Thing is mine. You have thing. Give back." is much more obvious than "I think you are probably infringing on our trademark." But, similar nonetheless.
 
coleridge78 said:
Not offhand, so feel free to ignore me. Maybe I'm even misremembering it. ;)

Understandable, but a phone is different from the iPad in terms of use situations out and about. Particularly if it's using "new" chipsets from their own/PA Semi designs as opposed to updates of the current stuff, there is no choice but to put it through real-world use by more than six top execs. And if it's going to be announced first week of June for July sales, then it's soon getting to be too late to make significant changes before ramping up for production. Who knows?
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No way would I ignore you, you seem to be one of the voices of reason in this thread.

I do disagree about the iPad being different in usage situations. The iPad is a 3G cellular device, just like the iPhone. If Apple does, indeed, test completely final devices (in both hardware and software) in the wild (which I still believe they do not) then they would have to test the iPhone as well as the iPad. The iPad uses the A4, which is a new chipset too. There was no real-world testing of that particular new chipset, that we know of.

I think that if they test the iPhone in this way, then they would have had to test the iPad as well. And there have been no reports of in-the-wild iPad testing before the launch in January.

--mAc
 
fatpeople said:
With the confidence of someone with an average I.Q., MacRumors headlines currently "...how the next generation iPhone was lost...", acknowledging that this is factually the new piece of poorly designed hardware from the world's most exacting design haus. They've sold their soul, that Mr. Kim and krew. They must have ads on their website or something, or might get the contractual HJ from Apple hired HJers, ya know, so they can propagate "properly" for the big fruit.

How is it obviously BS? Gizmodo won't show us the "connect to iTunes screen." A $50 scanner could reveal the resolution.

There is no reason at all for a device to ever leave the Infinite Loop. Planted. But here I am ranting, so the planter has succeeded I suppose. Sigh...
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QFT

Why no pics of the connect to iTunes, prob the one thing that could slightly prove it's an iPhone...
 
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