The Gizmodo/iPhone fiasco
Word (and pictures) on the future of iPhone are out in the streets thanks to an Apple engineer who supposedly left the device in a Redwood, Ca. Bar and Gizmodo the notorious gadget blog subsidiary of Gawker Media who paid $5000 to get their hands on the prototype device.
For an in depth write up on the legal implications read John Grubers article over at Daring Fireball.
As to the outcome of this whole fiasco I asume Apple is quite happy about that the device ending up with someone who obvoiusly had no idea of how to handle the situation and whom to offer the gadget to. The super secret device could have easily ended up in the labs of Apples competitors. Google, HTC, Motorola or Palm come to mind. I´m pretty confident one of those would have paid tenfold the amount the alleged “finder” received from gawker media.
The way it played out, the public who is always longing for rumours and peeks at new Apple devices, got no new information regarding the technology inside the next generation iPhone whatsoever. Front facing camera, higher resolution display and camera flash all of those features had been discussed earlier on the web and were, to a certain extend, the expected evolution in a future iteration of Apples cellphone.
Ther was no information regarding the CPU which is to power the device or the amount of memory it´s going to have. 80GB doesn´t sound like a proper figure as flash memory normaly increases by power of two which means the next step after todays 64GB would be 128GB.
The only thing left is the design of the device, which had been published on twitter back in february and noone can say if the photos on Gizmodo do actually show the device as it will sell later this year.
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