> “Powell kept his job in spite of the lost prototype and worked on Apple’s iOS software for another seven years before leaving the company in 2017.”<p>There’s actually a photo, taken as a joke, by Steve Wozniak you can find online. It shows him drinking a beer, holding an iPhone in the other hand, and he’s wearing a T-Shirt that reads: “I went drinking with Gray Powell and all I got was a lousy iPhone prototype.”<p><a href="https://www.cnet.com/tech/tech-industry/woz-has-fun-with-leaked-iphone-t-shirt-photos/" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https://www.cnet.com/tech/tech-industry/woz-has-fun-with-lea...</a><p>Thankfully, it appears Steve Jobs took his wrath out at Gizmodo than Powell.
It's interesting to look back at the commentary on HN from then: <a href="https://hn.algolia.com/?dateEnd=1323561600&dateRange=custom&dateStart=1259884800&page=0&prefix=true&query=iPhone%20prototype&sort=byPopularity&type=story" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https://hn.algolia.com/?dateEnd=1323561600&dateRange=custom&...</a>
I had to read this sentence a few times before I realized it was the decision and not the child: "My wife and I even decided to have our third child on our way to a dinner at Gourmet Haus Staudt."
The site guilted me into turning off my adblocker. I’m sympathetic to local media outlets.<p>My god. That site is comically unusable. There is just no way to read an their article in peace.<p>So when they, too, inevitably have to fold, let it be known, I tried.
The only interesting part of this article to me is what happened to Powell: he continued to work at Apple on iOS for another 7 years before leaving the company.<p>I also like this bit:<p>"Apple forced its own ban from the bar on Powell — though it doesn’t sound like that ban was enforced very strictly."<p>I wonder what that looked like.
I know Gray personally and have been able to hear the whole story from him, which is amazing and one of my favorite stories from the bay, ever. He's a great dude.
I have spent countless hours there over the years. It was an after work place everyone could agree on. As you change jobs over the years, you still end up there, and you will almost always run into someone you know.
> One of the first things Volker did after navigating the throng of TV reporters was email Jobs.
“I email Steve, and I said, ‘Steve, this is what happened. What do you want me to do? Can you please reach out and let me know? How do you want me to handle the situation?’” he said, noting that Jobs’ email was readily available online.<p>Thought it a bit odd that one of the first things the bar owner did was email Steve Jobs. Like...why?
> <i>the most infamous security breach</i><p>The XcodeGhost supply chain attack by the CIA infected a hundred million devices with malware. Quixun Zhaos chaos exploit chain took full control over iPhones from a drive by on a website and was used by china as part of the ugyhur genocide. And the cyberwar mercenary group NSO keeps targeting journalists and opposition around the world with what feels like an endless supply of exploits for apple devices.<p>But somehow the hype for the iPhone4 starting three month earlier than planned in 2010 is called the <i>"the most infamous"</i>. Apple PR at it's best, telling people the worst that can happen is loosing a phone at a bar.