By now everyone has heard of Gray Powell, the Apple engineer that lost the prototype iPhone at a bar in California. We also know that Powell didn’t lose his job, but not all engineers were so lucky.
Another Apple engineer lost his job after showing his iPad to Steve Wozniak just hours before the device went on sale. According to Woz, the engineer showed him the iPad for two minutes while he waited in line on April 3.
Woz said it was his understanding that the engineer was allowed to take the iPad out of Apple’s secure area after midnight on April 2, which it was when he was shown the device.
“In my opinion, Apple was not hurt by my being shown this iPad,” said Wozniak. “And if the employee who showed it to me believed that he could show it after April 3, then that’s another factor.”
Woz said he even talked to Apple CEO Steve Jobs about the incident and Jobs said, “so it’s no big deal.” However, Apple apparently thought it was a big deal because the engineer was fired.
“Does that jive with this iPhone situation? What am I missing here?,” said Wozniak.
After losing his iPhone prototype at a bar, Gray Powell tried to get it back, but the person who found it sold it to gadget site Gizmodo. After being taken apart a full breakdown of the phone was posted on the site for all to see.
according to several sources allegedly quoting Woz the ipad was a 3g and the engineer knew (likely having been reminded after the March 18th iphone lost) that it was not to be removed from said secure area. for anyone not authorized to have it. and Woz was not on the list
In fact it the 3g was on, Apple might have been at risk with the FCC if the 3g had not yet been approved. They are funny like that.
As for Jobs reply, it is unclear if he knew that it was a 3g or if Woz said "Hey so and so let me look at one of the new ipads at 12:05am this morning. And Jobs, assuming it was a wifi that was about to go on sale in about 8 hours was just like "whatever"
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