Good: Bizarre case of the missing iPhone 5 takes another twist - Seattle Post Intelligencer (blog) (Technology)

The weird box of the “missing” Apple iPhone 5 antecedent keeps rambling as well as turning.

To recap, the tech headlines website Cnet progressing this week reported which an Apple worker assumingly mislaid the unreleased iPhone during Cava22, a Mission District restaurant, in July.

That reportedly triggered a unfortunate hasten to find the phone by confidence crew during Apple, which is notoriously sly about products prior to they have been released.

Apple contacted the San Francisco Police Department after tracing the phone electronically to a Bernal Heights home, pronounced Cnet, which quoted an unnamed source. Police as well as Apple investigators went to the home, questioned a male there, conducted a poke though came divided empty-handed.

Then the SF Weekly journal reported which the male in which home pronounced he was interrogated by 6 people, all identifying themselves as being members of the SFPD. If which was true, the paper alleged, during slightest a single of the Apple member was impersonating a military officer.

The story incited again when the tech headlines site Gizmodo reported which SFPD’s media family dialect pronounced there was “no record” of an review in to the blank iPhone. Gizmodo, of course, is the same tool site which final year paid $ 5,000 for a antecedent iPhone 4 which was incidentally left in a Redwood City bar.

So which leads behind to tonight’s development, when military orator Lt. Troy Dangerfield released a press release to explain what unequivocally went down, nonetheless the matter did not discuss an iPhone, usually a “lost item.”

“After vocalization with Apple representatives, you were since inform which helped us establish what occurred,” the release said. “It was detected which Apple employees called Mission Police hire directly, wanting benefit in tracking down a mislaid item.”

Apple employees were afterwards referred to the Ingleside hire since the residence in question, on Anderson Street, was in which military district, military said.

“Four SFPD Officers accompanied Apple employees to the Anderson travel home. The dual Apple employees met with the proprietor as well as afterwards went in to the residence to demeanour for the mislaid item. The Apple employees did not find the mislaid object as well as left the house.”

So because was there no military inform available?

“The Apple employees did not wish to have an central inform of the mislaid item,” Dangerfield said.

This weird story will expected supplement to the common blogosphere frenzy which happens prior to Apple releases any glossy new product, generally an iPhone.

And as for the “lost item,” it competence still be lax on the streets of San Francisco. Stay tuned.