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Apple has the phone back. meanwhile, i went drinking with gray powell and all i have is a lousy iphone prototype t-shirt is available online. joining us is rob pegerero. apple is known for great security measures and we know it is a standard publishing trick to let a couple of copies of a hot book out early turning its discovery and review into a seemingly legit news story. how could this have been an accident? >> i go by the principle of least weirdness. it's weird that an engineer would disregard whatever security measures apple has and just forget the thing in the bar, but it's weirder that...

A mistake that may cost this poor guy his job, but a mistake. >> but there are still some details of the story that don't add up unless you have further details. i appreciate them. the guy who originally found it before selling it to gizmoto noticed it has been bricked through mobilemea, the service that apple uses to track and wipe out lost iphones. why wouldn't apple use mobileme to locate the phone? s why send out a letter weeks later after all the pictures and details had been published. >> the story gizmoto has is the gps part of the iphone, this prototype, doesn't work. this was a protot...

It's an honest mistake, a mrs. take that may cost this guy his job, but a mistake. >> the guy said he noticed it was bricked through moeb el me, which is the service that apple uses to track and wipe out lost iphones. why wouldn't they use the tracking device to find the phone? >> the story gizmodo has, is the gps part of this phone doesn't work, this was a prototype, so they wanted to make sure some things worked. other things you fix them in a later version. >> that's convenient, doesn't it go against your first conclusion, the thing that sounds the easiest would apply to that too? >> the ot...

>> but there are still some details of the story that don't add up unless you have further details. the guy who originally found it before selling it to gizmo noticed it has been bricked through mobile me, the service that apple uses to track and wipe out lost iphones. why wouldn't apple use mobile me to locate the phone? why send out a letter weeks later after all the pictures and details had been published. >> the story gizmo has is the gps part of the iphone, this prototype, doesn't work. this is a prototype. they wanted to make sure some things work. orr things you fix in a later version. ...