Gizmodo Blows Whistle On 4G iPhone Loser

Stoobalou writes "Not content with its iPhone scoop, Gizmodo has probably ruined the career of a young engineer. The tech blog last night exposed the name of the hapless Apple employee who had one German beer too many and left a prototype iPhone G4 in a California bar some 20 miles from Apple's Infinite Loop campus. Was that really necessary?" It also came out that they paid $5K for the leaked prototype and that Apple wants it back.

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Re:What's the point?

[sarlos]

As others have said, it's almost certainly a CYA move on Gizmodo's part. I'd also like to add that Apple already had to have known who owned the phone. In the original story Gizmodo mentioned it had been remotely wiped. That means the hapless employee had to have reported the loss of the phone.