“In a bizarre repeat of a high-profile incident last year, an Apple employee once again appears to have lost an unreleased iPhone in a bar,” Greg Sandoval and Declan McCullagh report for CNET.
“The errant iPhone, which went missing in San Francisco’s Mission district in late July, sparked a scramble by Apple security to recover the device over the next few days, according to a source familiar with the investigation,” Sandoval and McCullagh report. “Last year, an iPhone 4 prototype was bought by a gadget blog that paid $5,000 in cash. This year’s lost phone seems to have taken a more mundane path: it was taken from a Mexican restaurant and bar [San Francisco’s Cava 22, which describes itself as a ‘tequila lounge’] and may have been sold on Craigslist for $200.”
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Sandoval and McCullagh report, “Still unclear are details about the device, what version of the iOS operating system it was running, and what it looks like.”
More details in the full article here.
MacDailyNews Take: Here we go again!
Apple engineers really need to stop using iPhone prototypes as pick up, er… conversation starters in bars. 😉 Or strap them to their arms at least.
[Thanks to MacDailyNews Reader “Zulkifli M.” for the heads up.]
Blame the Mexicans!
Hum! Some sort of BUZZ FACTORY?…
” Hey bartender, another round for my friends from Samsung here “.
The secret to Apple’s engineering brilliance? Tequila!
Stop giving this guy the phone already!
Gee, doesn’t seem as if these folks of Silicon Valley can be TRUSTED !! But rather considered a bunch of drunk dumbazzes !!! I just can’t imagine loosing my job over a stupid azz drink of any nature !!! If I were head of that security department I can assure you, you would never work in the tech field again. In fact you might be lucky getting a job at your local burger joint cleaning the LOU !!!!! How are we suppose to take ANYONE seriously, when they can’t even handle the responsibility of a PHONE ???
Marketing ploy my bollocks !!! No one in the REAL Profitable world is this stupid or naive !!!