For Apple, Lost iPhone Is a Big Deal
For anyone who has ever lost a cellphone, remember this: it could be worse. You could be the person who left his phone in a bar in California. And it wasn’t just any phone; it was a supersecret version of the next iPhone . That model is not expected to be formally unveiled for a couple of months. Photos of the purported next-generation iPhone began appearing online over the weekend. For the people at Apple , it must be like a bad version of the guy walks into a bar joke. The company is known as the most secretive in Silicon Valley, and leaks are rare. But after the phone prototype was left in a bar in the Silicon Valley town of Redwood City, photos of the device began appearing over the weekend in technology blogs, sparking a frenzy of hype among the Apple-obsessed. Before long, pictures of the product appeared on Gizmodo, a technology news site, whose editors ripped it apart — as if it were an alien from another pl