So a junior Apple employee was having a few beers, and he left his prototype iPhone at the bar. The bar guy called Apple repeatedly to tell them, but mostly got ignored.
So he sold it (for all of $500) to a web site. Apple had remotely deactivated the phone by then, but the web site took that sucker apart. They found new hardware features:
But the amusing part is now we know who lost the thing.
Gray Powell, had his first job right out of college. A dream job, Apple! His facebook page says he wants to meet Steve Jobs. Chances are he just might have his chance.
Just in case you think you screwed up at work lately, rest assured you did not spoil your copybook nearly as bad as this kid did.
Sorry for the poor links, I cannot seem to do it properly today.
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His facebook page says he wants to meet Steve Jobs. Chances are he just might have his chance.
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I’m sure he met Mr. Jobs. And Mr. Tireiron.
What I know of Apple’s level of paranoia and secrecy conjures up an image of Steve Jobs sitting behind a massive glass desk, staring through his rimless spectacles and saying “I warned you not to cross me, Mr. Powell…”
ETA: It does seem really odd that they’d let a prototype out of the commune, err, office.
Yeah, it is a little odd. My spouse used to work for Apple (in the iPod group, actually) and he would bring late-stage prototypes home to work on (I had signed an NDA so I could see them) but he never took them out of the house. And after DHL lost one being mailed either to or from China (where they’re manufactured), it was decreed that the prototypes couldn’t leave the mother ship anymore. It was annoying because the spouse was in QA and ended up having to go in to HQ on weekends to work instead of bringing the units home, but it definitely made sense from a security standpoint.