Another Unreleased iPhone Lost by Employee In a Bar

First time accepted submitter MightyMait writes "Looks like another Apple employee left an iPhone prototype in a bar. From the article: '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. 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 and may have been sold on Craigslist for $200. Still unclear are details about the device, what version of the iOS operating system it was running, and what it looks like.' Once might be an accident, but two unreleased iPhones lost in bars starts to look like a strategy."

Comments

So what?

[Mensa Babe]

Do you really need to know what it looks like? I'm sure it has rectangular design with rounded corners, I mean Apple has invented rounded rectangles so I'm sure they wouldn't waste their greatest contribution to the world of computing. Seriously, this whole secrecy reminds me about Harry Potter. No one would read it if it wasn't the greatest secret on Earth. People, it's just a freaking phone! Who cares if it was lost or not, how it looks like or what OS version is it running. It could run Window$ Mobile for what it's worth and people would still line up to buy them because it's Apple. There, I said it. What I am more concerned about is not the OS version, the design or whether it finally has a real keyboard or not, but more important issues that have real impact on Web developers. Does it finally understand Mobile Web sites? Does it render XHTML Mobile Profile? Or even WAP for god's sake? ActionScript anyone? What about MMS? Let's face it - no matter how badly does it do all of those things that you expect from a $29 Nokia, people will still buy them and love them and the Mobile Web developers will have to live with all of their limitations. XHTML MP, cHTML, WML, AS, MMS, SMS - the level of support of those technologies that in the pre-iOS era we used to take for granted is what we should be interested about, not the shape or color of the new iPhone.

how many more before we address the

[nimbius]

real issue. Apple has a drinking problem.