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David Letterman's 'Top Ten Excuses of the Guy Who Lost the iPhone Prototype'

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Late Show host David Letterman last night used his "Top Ten" segment to highlight the case of an Apple engineer who last month left his next-generation iPhone in a Redwood City, California bar, only to have it leaked by Gizmodo earlier this week.

Letterman's "Top Ten Excuses of the Guy Who Lost the iPhone Prototype" pokes fun at a number of targets, including Apple's 'i' naming scheming for its products and AT&T's service quality. The list also links the lost iPhone to a number of other current events including the Icelandic volcano and a recent iPad theft that resulted in the owner losing a portion of his finger in addition to his new iPad.

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