How Apple recovered an original iPhone prototype in total secrecy

[Guest Chris Smith]

The most prominent iPhone prototype that Apple ever lost was the iPhone 4 that was forgotten in a bar by an Apple engineer months before its actual launch. But things could have been a lot different if a stranger had found a lost original iPhone prototype that was left in an airplane by Tony Fadell, who was in charge of iPod engineering at the time.

 

The best part of the story is that Fadell mounted up a massive search for the prototype, but the people searching for it didn’t even know what they were looking for.

 

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