It is about managing risk, you do need real world testing for many products, and it is impossible to do that without risking the public sees it (you could camouflage it like they do with cars) , but at the same time it probably isn’t suitable to take an unreleased phone into a bar where the risk of losing it is higher than say a grocery store.
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acosmichippo@lemmy.world 13 hours agoseems incongruous to me that the NDA is that strict but the prototypes are even allowed out in the wild at all.
stealth_cookies@lemmy.ca 12 hours ago
tehmics@lemmy.world 12 hours ago
It was in a rounded, 3gs-like case
floo@retrolemmy.com 13 hours ago
Per height are not allowed out in the wild anymore. There was a massive shift in policy after the iPhone 4 incident.