The 2006 iPhone prototypes we told you round yesterday? They’ve already been pulled from Ebay, where invitation had reached about $2000. And the YouTube video showing how they worked? Also gone.
It desire be no shock to discover outside that Apple was behind this — the companionship has mystery in its DNA, smooth of when it comes to three year elderly trial tools. Here’s what the seller told iLounge: as numerous people predicted would occur, Apple has contacted eBay to close the listing.
This is a crying embarrassment. We don’t anxiety so much round the handsets themselves, although the seller is very likely less than happy round losing $2000. What we anxiety round is the video, a small bit of account which should genuinely be preserved. Fortunately, Engadget rescued it, but YouTube would be superior — that route we could observe it on our iPhones.
Was this smooth of a genuine software model? Contrivance Lab reader John Thain wrote with an absorbing theory and helpfully included a snippet from Fred Vogelstein’s superb article on the childbirth of the iPhone:
Smooth of the iPhone’s tools and software teams were kept aside: Tools engineers worked on circuitry that was overloaded with falsify software, while software engineers worked away compass boards sitting in wood boxes.
Could this be single of those handsets overloaded with falsify software? It makes faculty. The iPhone in the drawing is distinctly the identical iPhone that went on selling two years ago. This may interpret why Apple wanted the listing pulled — as an alternative of showing an earlier, crappier iPhone interface, the video and photos as an alternative display Apple’s concealed, internal unreal phone software.
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