As some of you may or may not know, an absent-minded Apple engineer left a prototype of the next version iPhone at a Silicon Valley bar last week. Whoever found the phone had a keen enough eye to realize it wasn't any old iPhone, but rather the next generation one due out in a few months. It wasn't before long pictures of the prototype surfaced on the Web over the weekend and frenzy broke out to confirm its authenticity. Reports from the New York Times and a letter from Apple's Senior VP Bruce Swell to technology site Gizmodo asking for the device back, confirm that it is in fact the next version of the iPhone (which was found at German specialty store and beer garden in Redwood City, CA. and later dropped to Gizmodo for $5,000).

But all of this is "old" news and my imagination has wandered. It's fun to think what would have happened if a not-so technologically savvy person stumbled upon it and put it behind the bar to wait for its owner to return (whoever left it would probably not be sweating bullets at this time, that's for sure). Or we can mull around the thought of what would have happened if some developer or Apple rival happened upon it. This whole mishap could have been pretty detrimental to Apple, which has been pretty much leak free for decades, but it seems they have come out unscathed.

Source: Gizmodo