This is starting to become a bit of a joke. An Apple employee goes to a bar and loses a prototype iPhone. For those of you keeping score at home, this is the second time that this has happened. So far there’s no sign of the phone, unlike the last time that this happened. But Apple clearly wants it back:
A day or two after the phone was lost at San Francisco’s Cava 22, which describes itself as a “tequila lounge” that also serves lime-marinated shrimp ceviche, Apple representatives contacted San Francisco police, saying the device was priceless and the company was desperate to secure its safe return, the source said.
Apple electronically traced the phone to a two-floor, single-family home in San Francisco’s Bernal Heights neighborhood, according to the source.
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.
In an interview this afternoon, Jose Valle told CNET that neither the police nor Apple security ever contacted him. Valle, who owns the bar with his family, said however he does remember a man calling multiple times about a lost iPhone about a month ago. He told the man he would call him back if he ever found the phone.
“I guess I have to make my drinks a little less strong,” Valle said.
I have to admit that either Apple has to get it’s act together when it comes to prototypes, or keep it’s employees out of bars. This is really embarrassing. I guess we’ll just have to wait for it to show up on a technology blog. Not this one though.
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Apple Loses Prototype iPhone Again
This is starting to become a bit of a joke. An Apple employee goes to a bar and loses a prototype iPhone. For those of you keeping score at home, this is the second time that this has happened. So far there’s no sign of the phone, unlike the last time that this happened. But Apple clearly wants it back:
A day or two after the phone was lost at San Francisco’s Cava 22, which describes itself as a “tequila lounge” that also serves lime-marinated shrimp ceviche, Apple representatives contacted San Francisco police, saying the device was priceless and the company was desperate to secure its safe return, the source said.
Apple electronically traced the phone to a two-floor, single-family home in San Francisco’s Bernal Heights neighborhood, according to the source.
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.
In an interview this afternoon, Jose Valle told CNET that neither the police nor Apple security ever contacted him. Valle, who owns the bar with his family, said however he does remember a man calling multiple times about a lost iPhone about a month ago. He told the man he would call him back if he ever found the phone.
“I guess I have to make my drinks a little less strong,” Valle said.
I have to admit that either Apple has to get it’s act together when it comes to prototypes, or keep it’s employees out of bars. This is really embarrassing. I guess we’ll just have to wait for it to show up on a technology blog. Not this one though.
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