Unbelievably, Apple has once again lost an iPhone prototype in a bar, reports CNET.
According to their source, the phone was reportedly lost at San Francisco's Cava 22 "tequila lounge" in late July and possibly sold on Craiglist for $200.
Apple representatives apparently contacted San Francisco police, saying the device was priceless and they were desperate to secure its safe return. Eventually they tracked the phone to a two-floor, single-family home in San Francisco's Bernal Heights.
When San Francisco police and Apple's investigators visited the house, they spoke with a man in his twenties who acknowledged being at Cava 22 on the night the device went missing. But he denied knowing anything about the phone. The man gave police permission to search the house, and they found nothing, the source said. Before leaving the house, the Apple employees offered the man money for the phone no questions asked, the source said, adding that the man continued to deny he had knowledge of the phone.
It's unclear if Apple has managed to locate the device or if its still in the wild.
First time, believable. Second time, stupid marketing prank. They should lose it somewhere other than a bar next time and maybe it'd be a believable story.
Bogus.. The entire article sounds fabricated. Who would have found this phone and sold it on CL for a mere $200?? Where are the CL pics? They tracked the phone to this guys house and found nothing? I call BS..
Lost the iPhone by the apple employee again? Hhmm..... I think its done on purpose to see if they can track the phone in order to see how good the tracking or the gps system is working. Well .... Whoever found the iphone did learn the last mistake and he turn out to be smarter. ;-)
So stupid if you believe it's accidental. Apple does all of this on purpose. It's called a controlled leak. Last years controlled leak resulted in the best selling smartphone of all time. Of course they did it again!!