Tony Fadell was panicking. Well before the Apple iPhone was ready to be introduced, the man in charge of engineering for the iPod was carrying a prototype of the device on an airplane. Fadell exited the plane thinking that the phone was in one of his pockets. But when he patted his pockets after getting off the plane and they went flat, he knew he had a problem.
The iPhone was top secret when this occurred, and Fadell knew first hand that Apple CEO Steve Jobs had threatened to fire anyone who leaked the product. Helped by a group of volunteers who had no idea what they were looking for, Fadell finally found the prototype stuck in between two seats on the plane. Apparently, it had fallen out of his pocket.
