Apple seems to have a habbit of losing its newest iPhone prototype. Just a year ago right before iPhone 4 was launched, its prototype gone missing when one of its employee brought it to a bar.
The employe's name was Gray Powell who was celebrating his birthday the day the iPhone 4 prototype gone missing. Gray was working at Apple as a Software engineer. He was responsible for developing iPhone baseband software which enable the device for making phone calls. Gray and some friends got into a bar and start drinking to celebrate his birthday. He then updated his facebook status using what looked to be a regular iPhone, probably a 3GS type. I guess it was his last update from the device because he forgot to take it when the celebration was over.
Another drunk man who was sitting next to him found the iPhone and saying to a man next to where Gray was sitting if the iPhone was his. The other man said it was not his so the man who found the iPhone it was probably the drunk man's friend who left it there and suggested that he should keep it. The drunk man then asked everybody who was at the bar at that time if anyone was missing an iPhone. But no one did. So he sat there for a while in case the owner come back.
To make the story short the drunk man then sold the iPhone prototype to Gizmodo for a fee of $5000. Not bad huh for a one day job of sitting and waiting for the owner to get back. Now the same story happened again with the next iPhone prototype (probably called iPhone 5). I guess history did repeat itself. Another Apple's employee lost the prototype also at a bar. What is it with Apple employee's, bar and iPhone protoype? I think there is a pattern here from which me might conclude that Apple's security is slightly decreasing due to the fact that their employee's managed to smuggle the prototype and lost it. This story has not reached it conclusion yet as Apple tried to find the prototype by searching a man's house who allegedly has the prototype. Apple also had the help from the San Fransisco police department who escorted Apple's employee in doing the search. The man who had his house searched then accused Apple of impersonating a police officer when they came to his house.
The story might still has some twist in it which is very interesting to see. Where will the prototype end up? Will the employee who lost the iPhone prototype be fired? How will Apple handle its employee's habbit of smuggling the prototype and then lose it in a bar? Let's just wait for the conclusion of the story of Apple and its lost iPhone prototype.
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