It's been more or less understood this wasn't lost but taken and sold to Gizmodo.
No, Apple is calling it a stolen device, not a lost one.
They are trying to save face.
Honestly, it could go either way right now. There are lots of people in the wild with the next iPhone right now doing signal testing and ensuring it works like it should. This is not an impossible situation.
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Besides hiring a goddamn band of mercenaries to kill the guy who leaked it.
'Hiring' would imply they don't have an in-house team
Once you've put in your time in a big mercenary firm and paid off most of your mercenary school loans, in-house killing is really the way to go.
Sure, you usually take a small pay cut, but the hours are way more reasonable, and you don't have to juggle clients or worry too much about conflicts of interest.
I am 100% sure that a company requiring developers to only handle an already announced product in a room with no windows would know who last had a major project prototype on their campus.
The only way they could not know who was supposed to have it was if it was straight up stolen and they just mass wiped all of the 4g iphones currently active.
Swift death to the perpetrator of this most heinous theft
-Steve
~ sent from my iPad
I can't help but feel like this is a highly orchestrated viral marketing move. Obviously I don't have any evidence -- just a nagging feeling that I'm being manipulated.
It's really not in Apple's interests to perpetrate anything other than rumors before the actual announcement. The point is to build hype, not dilute excitement.
While Apple has been known to very, very, very unofficially permit the slip of a detail or two about their new products, dropping a full-on prototype into Gizmodo's lap is very far-fetched.
While Apple has been known to very, very, very unofficially permit the slip of a detail or two about their new products, dropping a full-on prototype into Gizmodo's lap is very far-fetched.
(ascot already said this, though)
It's my understanding that it isn't actually a working prototype.
And I just don't see how this hurts them at all. It's Apple -- they're going to sell more units of the next iPhone than god on launch day if they say exactly zilch between now and whenever it lands. This story just creates a sensation around the next iteration of the phone and possibly allows them to gauge reaction to the (relatively) radical new design.
While Apple has been known to very, very, very unofficially permit the slip of a detail or two about their new products, dropping a full-on prototype into Gizmodo's lap is very far-fetched.
(ascot already said this, though)
It's my understanding that it isn't actually a working prototype.
And I just don't see how this hurts them at all. It's Apple -- they're going to sell more units of the next iPhone than god on launch day if they say exactly zilch between now and whenever it lands. This story just creates a sensation around the next iteration of the phone and possibly allows them to gauge reaction to the (relatively) radical new design.
It is. Or, it should be. It shows the "Connect to iTunes" screen since it's been wiped, and identifies itself in iTunes and XCode. Also, when Engadget first broke the story, the source who found it claimed for it to be running OS 4.0, until it was wiped.
Because the possibility of a new iPhone is already a sensation and Apple has nothing to gain by diluting the "BRAND BRAND NEW MUST BUY NOW" aspect of most of their product announcements.
While Apple has been known to very, very, very unofficially permit the slip of a detail or two about their new products, dropping a full-on prototype into Gizmodo's lap is very far-fetched.
Yes, the notoriously secretive company that holds highly anticipated press conferences to launch new products announced the newest version of one of their most successful products by leaving it in a bar and hoping some tech blog will pick up the story.
Also, not to simplify things, but "gauge reaction"? Like it or not, Apple is a market leader. Everybody went from calling the iPad dumb to creaming over it in the span of months (myself included).
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'Hiring' would imply they don't have an in-house team
No, Apple is calling it a stolen device, not a lost one.
They are trying to save face.
Honestly, it could go either way right now. There are lots of people in the wild with the next iPhone right now doing signal testing and ensuring it works like it should. This is not an impossible situation.
Let's play Mario Kart or something...
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Apple already knows who lost it
they remotely wiped the thing
to do that they would have to know which device was lost, and they definitely know who was supposed to have it
Once you've put in your time in a big mercenary firm and paid off most of your mercenary school loans, in-house killing is really the way to go.
Sure, you usually take a small pay cut, but the hours are way more reasonable, and you don't have to juggle clients or worry too much about conflicts of interest.
FOXCONN is actually an elaborate hoax to cover up apple's actual overseas operation
That could just be because anyone who takes a prototype is required to sign it in and out every day
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z-ZAXBn1qOo
ahahahha
Which doesn't seem that likely to me
I can't help but feel like this is a highly orchestrated viral marketing move. Obviously I don't have any evidence -- just a nagging feeling that I'm being manipulated.
/tinfoilhat
Unless you mean this is not actually the 4G.
(ascot already said this, though)
current rumor is 10k. At least that is what engadget was offered (and rejected).
Let's play Mario Kart or something...
It's my understanding that it isn't actually a working prototype.
And I just don't see how this hurts them at all. It's Apple -- they're going to sell more units of the next iPhone than god on launch day if they say exactly zilch between now and whenever it lands. This story just creates a sensation around the next iteration of the phone and possibly allows them to gauge reaction to the (relatively) radical new design.
It is. Or, it should be. It shows the "Connect to iTunes" screen since it's been wiped, and identifies itself in iTunes and XCode. Also, when Engadget first broke the story, the source who found it claimed for it to be running OS 4.0, until it was wiped.
I was more forceful.
neat
I was expecting a smaller version of the 3g ipad, with the plastic top bit and everythng
this is pretty nice though
Nothing much. Didn't post for a while.
Got bored, decided to post again.