Hey guys, its Greg with Apple Explained, and today were going to explore the history of the revealed iPhone 4 paradigm. This topic was the first place winner of lastweeks voting poll and if you didnt get to vote, make sure youre subscribed, thatway the voting polls will be displayed right in your pleasure feed and you can let me knowwhich video youd like to see next. So if youre one of my younger onlookers, you may not know much about this story since it took place eight years ago, but you needto understand that what were about to discuss is considered by most people as the biggesttech leak in record. And that probably sounds hopeless sinceApple is known for being the most secretive corporation in the world, I mean, the government has multiplelocks on labs with unreleased concoctions, they have armored doors, they persistently changesystem passwords, and they even have their own security force patrolling their campusat all times for invaders and spies.And if that wasnt fairly, every prototypethey built was kept under surveillance with restricted access merely to people who weredirectly included in the products development. And this is why most Apple employees are justas shocked as we are when the company introduces a brand-new commodity. There was even a narration about construction workers beingfired for showing an unreleased iPad to another Apple employee. So its somewhat hard to imagine that a supersecret iPhone example would appear on a random forbid stool twenty miles away from Applescampus. But that really proves that no matter how harda company tries to be perfect, itll eventually make a mistake since business are just madeup of humans, and humen are fallible. So this mistake had something to do with anunreleased iPhone 4 prototype, a tech bulletin website announced Gizmodo, and a very angry SteveJobs.So all of this happened back in April 2010 when the 3GS was the most recent iPhone model. An work listed Gray Powell was responsiblefor field testing an unreleased iPhone example which would later become the iPhone 4. Now Gray was a twenty-seven year old Appleengineer who had been with the company for two years, and this whole event actually happenedon his birthday. Now keep in mind that most of this story isbased on what Gray Powell said happened, so we dont certainly know if all of this is 100% true-blue, but well at least get the main idea. So it was April 2010 and Powell went out tocelebrate his birthday with cups at a German table announced Gourmet Haus Staudt.He had a few imbibes and even updated his FaceBookstatus from the phone he was testing. Now members of the public who eventually culminated up withpossession of the spilt iPhone was appointed Brian Hogan who was at the bar with his friend, and he was sitting next to Gray Powell but patently didnt imagine much about him atthe time. Eventually Gray Powell left the bar and forgothis iPhone prototype on a stool. So we know Brian intent up with the iPhoneprototype, but he wasnt the guy who found it. Someone else sitting on the other side ofPowell was the first person who actually discern the iPhone on the stool. He asked Brian if it was his iPhone, and Briansaid no, but the other guy figured it mustve belong to one of Brians friends so he handedthe phone to him saying, now, take it, you dont want to lose it. Now Im not sure if thats actually whathappened or if Brian construct that place up to remove some responsibility for taking thephone, but either way he terminated up with the phone in his hand, and he didnt know whoit belonged to.So he asked around the bar, but no one claimedit. And then he reviewed, perhaps it belong to theguy who was sitting next to him earlier in the evening, which it did. Because the person who sat next to him wasGray Powell. So Brian and his friend bided at the barthinking he might come back for it, but Gray never returned. Now Gray and Brian never actually talked orintroduced each other while sitting at the bar, so Brian didnt know anything aboutthe phones owner to try and get into contact with him. Because of this, Brian figured that if hecould get into the phone and look around a little bit, hed eventually find the ownersname or even their contact information to return the phone.So he successfully opened the phone andplayed around with it while waiting. At this place he just thought it was a normaliPhone 3GS but then it started doing some strange things. He tried opening the camera app, but it crashedevery time. There are also among two funny see bar codeson the back, and a mannequin figure sticker next to the volume keys, so the whole thing justseemed a little off. Now there was six sheets of employments onthe residence screen, and one of them was Facebook. He launched FaceBook figuring thatd bea good way to identify the owner, and thats where reference is discovered the iPhone belonged tonone other than Apple technologist Gray Powell. Now since Brian knew who the owner was, heleft the bar and figured hed precisely get into contact with Gray later on. But when he woke up the following morning, thephone was dead.It was bricked remotely through MobileMe, similar to the remote wipe feature offered by iCloud today. And it was only then that he realized thatthere was something strange about the iPhones design. The outside of it didn’t feel right and henoticed there was a camera on the front. Some that no iPhone ever had before. So after messing with it a bit, he managedto take off the hoax 3GS instance and realized he was hampering a manoeuvre no one had ever seenbefore. Its design was completely different from anyiPhone ever stimulated. With a stainless-steel band around the perimeterand a flat glass back. At this place he understood how serious thesituation was, he was deeming an unreleased iPhone that Apple certainly knew was missingand unquestionably was looking for.Brian didnt mis Apple showing up on hisdoorstep. So he consumed his own phone to call Apple supportand tried to find someone who was at least willing to transfer his call to the rightperson, but that didnt happen. Heres the actual transcript of the conversationthat happened between Brian and an AppleCare representative: Hello, thanks for calling AppleCare/ Hello. I fantasize I have some kind of iPhone prototype, or something!/ What?/ Yeah, it’s kinda square, and it doesn’twork. I met it in a saloon./ Ok! Thanks for calling. Clearly no one on the other end took himseriously but which are capable of denounced them? I necessitate imagine working for Apple and somerandom guy calls up claiming he has an iPhone prototype. Id probably think it was a prank call orsomething.Eventually Brian got a ticket list fromApple so he expected someone to call him back, but nobody has ever did. Now Gray Powell told his boss that he lostthe iPhone prototype and that report started straight-shooting to the top. Steve Jobs was frantic. But Apple had no way of tracking down theiPhone since it was remotely disabled. And if youre feeling, why didntthey just locate it with Find My iPhone, well they couldnt because the beta releaseof iOS 4 that the example was rolling didnt work with Find My iPhone.So Apple, and Brian, were totally screwed. At this stage Brian figured if Apple wouldnttake their own prototype, maybe a media outlet would. And maybe theyd spend a lot of fund forit. So he called around to different tech blogslike Engadget and Gizmodo and offered them the paradigm for $10,000. Apparently there was a bidding war betweenthe two companies and Brian eventually professed $5,000 from Gizmodo plus a bonus dependingon how much transaction the post received. Then on the morning of April 20 th, Jason Chenfrom Gizmodo published a berth called This Is Apples Next iPhone. It was a hands-on tell all about the prototypethey had received from Brian, and Jason Chen established a detailed explanation why he believedthe manoeuvre was a legitimate Apple product. His explanation was so convincing that JonGruber, a well known Apple insider, said himself that the leak was legit. And this endorsement actually effected Engadgetto revise their essay about the paradigm to make it sound less skeptical, since allsigns were pointing to this seeped iPhone being the real deal.Now formerly the legend get out and was validated, every news outlet imaginable operate wildernes with their own legends. But the focus of the coverage always cameback to Gizmodo since everyone was wondering how they got the iPhone in the first place. Some outlets pictured Gizmodo was guilty ofreceiving stolen property, and all of this theatre promptly got the attention of Apple CEOSteve Jobs. He actually announced Jason Chen himself andsaid I crave my phone back. Now this began a series of emails back andforth between Apple and Gizmodo, but Apple isnt a very patient company when it comesto recovering unreleased produces, so they refer a police force called the CaliforniaRapid Enforcement Allied Computer Team, whatever the heck that is, and we are really kickeddown Jason Chens doorway, took four computers, two servers, cameras, and an an iPhone. Now this was technically law since theyhad a warrant, but this move by Apple was very controversial since reporters are entitledto “shield laws” that protect them from having newsroom equipment seized. But no charges were filed against anyone inthis case.Now whats interesting about this wholeordeal is what Steve Jobs publicly am talking about it comparison with what he allegedly did aboutit. Heres a time of him discussing the issueat the All Things Digital conference in 2010[ time] So Jobs became it sound like he wasnt genuinely too involved and it wasall being left up to the district attorney and whatever culminated up happening was fine withhim. But roots close to Jobs described a muchdifferent attitude than what he was showing in that clip. They said Jobs was infuriated about the situationand was more involved than anyone else at Apple, necessitating updates on any new developmentsin the narration , no matter how small. And recollect the California Rapid EnforcementAllied Computer Team? Well that turned out to be a private securityforce that was largely funded by Apple, and presumably it was Jobs who pushed for thatteam to get a warrant and forcefully enter Jason Chens dwelling. Now Apple may have made some morally questionabledecisions during this event, but the real morons were the people at Gizmodo. They predicted Brian a $3,000 bonus after thepost was published, but never followed through.They likewise shed him for the purposes of the bus legally, so he was burdened with all the attorney rewards and law overheads that Gizmodo managed to avoid. Actually, after the whole ordeal was over, Brian ceased up losing money and it completely destroyed his personal life. If you want to read more about how this effectedhim you should read his AMA on Reddit from 2013, its a kindve sad but really interestingstory. And as for Gray Powell, the Apple engineerwho actually lost the iPhone, he continued to work for Apple and didnt certainly faceany consequences which is kindve surprising, but hey, I predict everyone sees mistake. So that is the history of the lost iPhone4 prototype, and if you want to vote for the next video topic, dont forget to subscribe.Thanks for watching, and Ill see you nexttime ..
