I normally stay out of the world of technology unless it involves automated webmasters or anything about NASA, but this story caught my attention. apparently, a 27 year old software engineer who was field-testing the new iphone 4.0 left it on a barstool in some ale house in Redwood City, CA. The new iphone (which was disguised as an iphone 3GS) was then turned over anonymously to the geek-tech-bloggers at gizmodo.com. folks at gizmodo are very well respected in the tech industry and had a feud with apple after it wouldn’t let gizmodo have an ipad to review for before its release. looks like the shoe is on the other foot, as they say.
gizmodo claims to have paid $5000 for the lost iphone from the anonymous source then dissected it, photographed it, videotaped it and posted its specs and review on their blog. apple claims that it was not theirs despite solid evidence* that it is in fact the new version of the iphone which will be released in june. apple couldn’t possibly have made a bigger blunder considering their ultra-paranoid security measures.
see what happens when a blog is dedicated to screwing with society? christ, 3 members of the imgross staff went to kinko’s today to print fliers but forgot to bring the file and we left empty-handed. all we had gained from the experience was referencing how the clerk who couldn’t help us looked like andy dick in road trip.
wa-wah
*apple parts, apple case, apple software, works with itunes, same casing structure as new macbooks, etc
i want a the new iphone.
if only imgross could get their hands on something of value like a test model iphone or nitroglycerine like in “the manhattan project”.