In a significant victory for corporate personhood, Apple has developed a drinking problem. For the second time, a prototype iPhone has been left behind in a bar, presumably abandoned after the owner was propositioned by an Android smartphone with more “swagger.”

I take away two things from these twin incidents. First, whatever flaws iPhones have, they’re gin-proof. This is a relief; I lost my first Newton to a Singapore Sling in ‘94.

Secondly, Apple has a suspicious knack for headline-friendly loss incidents. A bar is an ideal place to lose a hip new piece of consumer technology. “ Apple Loses Another iPhone Prototype at a Bar ” sounds a lot better than “Blackberry Prototype Lost at Marketing Seminar.”

It's all up there in malicious and snowy, but we'll be blithe to spell it out again here -- it seems that Apple has certain to add to the completely of iTunes number cheaply previews from 30 seconds to 90 seconds. Sounds only just high-grade to us, but not to the recipients of this accurately, who are told the vacillate turn into is episode whether they like it or not and it's for their own upstanding. "We suppose that giving imminent customers more habits to hark to to your music will prompt to more purchases," the verify reads, but without giving the music labels any way to say no. We don't in fact conscious the extraction of this unusual validate, so we're not saying this is a done arrangement by any means, but if the note's legit you're looking at the everybody's largest online music collect giving away the whole show the labels to put up and seal close down up -- or else market their tunes somewhere else.