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- Option A: Apple has been abusing their employees for so long that their Beta team has found religion in the bottom of an empty bottle.
- Option B: Apple is experimenting to see if lightning really does hit twice in the marketing world. After all, which would you prefer? Paying for ad placement to get people to follow the story, or giving people like me something to write about. (Guilty of falling for this one, I guess. Sorry.)
Now, again we have an iPhone going missing in good ole San Francisco, this one in the Mission district. For those of you feeling a little Deja Vu, don't. This time is soooo much better. It all started when there was a "priceless" phone, lost in the bar frequented by yet another Apple employee. Of course, following this to the next step, Apple scrambles their security team, again searching for a needle in a haystack, lest another of their precious devices fall into the hands of Gizmodo, and be dismembered for the public's enjoyment. This time, however, Apple is refusing to comment on the event, or any upcoming model of the iPhone (though several unconfirmed reports list the release date in late September, or early October). Read more after the jump.
Ok, so back to the story. (Where was I?) We have a lost prototype sitting in a bar, the employee freaks out because this was proven to be a career death sentence, as seen everywhere last year. We have a security team scrambling through San Francisco to search for said device, and yet... we also have reports from the SFPD that there have been no police reports filed regarding the loss.
After a couple of days, Apple seems to have remembered that they can track these devices, and followed the lost device to a private residence in the Bernal Heights neighborhood. They then called the police to request an escort to the location (still no report), and (Without so much as a warrant) were granted permission to search the home for the missing device. Now, before the conspiracy buffs out there start screaming hymns of the flaming injustice, and corporate takeover of the world leadership; this search was legal because the homeowner consented to it.
Though they found nothing, and the resident turned down a no-questions-asked monetary gift for the return of the device, the the home's owner claims to have no knowledge of the missing iPhone.
Now, the strangest thing about this is that Apple claims that there is no prototype currently active, as all new models will be sent in a sealed box to the carrier, for reception testing in a lab. The only model of the iPhone that they claim to produce for non-commercial reasons is an iPhone developers model, which uses the same processor as the iPad 2. Though this feature is expected to appear in the next iPhone, there is nothing secret about it, according to 9to5Mac.
Do we have another upcoming media fiasco on the horizon, just waiting for a spark to drill the apple logo even farther into everyone's skull? Is it all just a publicity stunt? I guess we'll have to wait and see.
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Thanks for reading!
~Dom
1 comments:
Ah, ha, now that you have (exceptionally, as well as successfully) aroused everyone's curiosity about the lost iPhone5..I can see everyone scrambling around from site to site to see if Apple finally found it in someone's possession. It certainly makes sense that if it, in fact, it does have a tracking system built into it, they should have been able to walk directly to the place it was safely hidden away. I find it equally funny that Apple didn't remember the built-in tracking system until later in the hunt..Are they becoming a bit senile already?
Now that you have everyone's attention, we'll all be checking back in to see if the iPhone5 has been located, HERE.
So you do realize that this story will generate mucho 'hit's', just because of the Big Hunt!!
Smart man, me thinks!! Way to go Jeff...
loved this story, keep up the good work!
Gma
PS: Everyone loves a good Mystery,now a days..
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