Exactly 8 years ago, namely on April 20, 2010, the most significant leak in the history of the Cupertino company occurred. News server focused on technology Gizmodo published an article on this day, written thanks to the iPhone 4 prototype, which he obtained and disassembled the day before to find out what was inside, and then informed his readers about everything.
You're probably wondering how the iPhone 4 prototype got into the editors' hands. It is easy. Even the software engineers of the Californian giant are only people who make mistakes from time to time, so the then 27-year-old engineer Gray Powell accidentally forgot the prototype in a bar.
Check out the iPhone 4 prototype that got into the hands of the server Gizmodo:
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The bar security guard who found the phone sold it to Gizmodo for $5. Gizmodo obtained the prototype on April 000, 19, a month and a half before Steve Jobs introduced the device at the Worldwide Developers Conference. Although the iPhone 4 prototype was dressed in the latest generation iPhone 3GS, however, the editors of the Gizmodo website were not deterred by the appearance and looked inside the device, revealing details about the upcoming hardware changes, such as a larger battery, a thinner body, and the like.
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Some accused Gizmodo of breaking the law by purchasing the prototype, and the reaction Applu was quite aggressive. About a week after Gizmodo published information about the iPhone 4, police stormed the apartment of one of its editors, Jason Chen. The search of the apartment was led by a team Rapid Enforcement Allied Computer Team along with a California task force tasked with investigating the biggest crimes. Apple he was a member of the steering committee of the said working group.
The police broke down the door of the editor's apartment because he did not answer. However, the editor was not in the apartment at the time, so the police did not catch him, but at least they confiscated his external hard drives, four computers, two servers, phones and other things.
Powell, who prototyped the iPhone 4, got a job in Applu, while continuing to work on mobile software development iOS.
great machine i still have it and use it in dockother for music etc :)
That was the most beautiful. iphone all the time...