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Sunday, September 4, 2011

New iPhone prototype gone missing


Apple hunted lost item - clue points to new iPhone

 
"San Francisco police said on Friday they had helped Apple Inc security search for a "lost item," following a week of reports that a prototype of the newest iPhone had gone missing in July.
Officers did not say exactly what Apple had lost, but they left a clue -- the San Francisco Police Department's Friday press release about the hunt was called "iphone5.doc," an apparent reference to a new version of the mobile phone that tech industry watchers expect to be released soon.
Apple declined to comment on the matter.
Tech news service CNET this week said an iPhone 5, which has not been released, went missing in a San Francisco bar in July. SF Weekly, a local newspaper, on Friday quoted a San Francisco man as saying police had come to his house in July searching for a lost iPhone.
Although a prototype of the iPhone 4 went missing in 2010, police said this time Apple had tracked "the lost item" to a San Francisco house and four police accompanied two Apple employees to the house.
"The two Apple (security) employees met with the resident and then went into the house to look for the lost item. The Apple employees did not find the lost item and left the house," the police statement said.
It did not say why police accompanied Apple security or the circumstances under which Apple employees "went into the house to look for the lost item". Police did not respond to a request for further comment. (...)"

6 comments:

Talerfuchs said...

This is typical for apple. There are so many copy cat companys out there which would pay lot of money to imitade their products. But this could be a marketing gag too.

September 4, 2011 at 11:02 AM
paulz said...

There is always a "prototype" missing before launch I remember the same thing happened with the iPhone 4 and Engadget had an exclusive article on it.

September 4, 2011 at 11:31 AM
Huger said...

Ehhh another stolen prototype apple drama.

September 4, 2011 at 8:39 PM
Damon said...

great post
+follow

September 5, 2011 at 5:17 AM
Liaata said...

i cant understand how they can be that stupid :_D

September 12, 2011 at 12:22 PM
Dan Carter said...

someone within apple has to be a mole, they always lose stuff like this. :P

September 21, 2011 at 10:51 AM

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