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Google Nexus 4 Prototype Lost In a Bar
theodp writes "A little over a year ago, an iPhone 4s prototype walked into a San Francisco bar, prompting a controversial manhunt by a now-deceased Apple investigator and the SFPD. Now, Wired reports that a Nexus 4 prototype walked into a San Francisco bar last month, prompting Google to sic its security team on 'Sudsy,' a San Francisco bartender who notified Google that he'd found their phone, which was slated to make its debut at a since-cancelled Android event on Oct. 29. When the 'Google Police' showed up at the bar, Sudsy's co-worker sent the 'desperate' Google investigator on a wild goose chase which landed him in an under-siege SFPD Station, from which he and Sudsy's lawyer had to be escorted out of under the watch of police in full riot gear with automatic weapons so the pair could arrange a 1 a.m. pickup of the phone."
It does not parse right in any of the 6 natural and about 12 computer languages I know well. Can someone translate?
A lawyer, a priest, a rabbi, and a Nexus 4 prototype walked into a San Francisco bar ....
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BMO
With a character named Sudsy and a police station 'under siege', this would make a better script for a story where Dick Tracy misplaces his wrist radio.
All that's missing is the hard bitten gumshoe and the dame with legs that go on and on...
Would you prefer they'd sent a blade runner instead?
They should go straight to Taffy's bar.
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An Apple spokesperson immediately commented on the incident.
"I have to inform Google that we will sue for a billion dollars. We have already patented the marketing trick of "losing" phones. We got prior art, dammit!"
We used to have a Bill of Rights. Now, with the rights gone, all we have left is the bill.
The real question is how long it will take Apple to sue Samsung for having one of their prototypes stolen in the same manner as one of Apple's.
Three Questions.
How can you loose a phone while showing it off to all your friends in a bar?
Its already been knocked off in China so whats the big deal?
Can I have one?
Not that it's my kind of place, but apparently he's on the level if you want a drink.
"Wait. Something's happening. It's opening up! My God, it's full of apricots!"
Yep, Apple employees lost a prototype phone in a bar twice and now Google does it. Wouldn't be surprised if Apple had a business method patent on something like a "controlled method of leaking information to increase hype".