A beautiful chance of creating a conspirational theory…

Plausible explanation 1.
The guy lost it for real. In this case he would be six feet under by now and no one even knew he existed ever.

Plausible explanation 2.
The guy lost it and Apple is a nice place to work while Steve Jobs is the Santa Claus injected into the skeleton of the merciful king therefore the guy still works at Apple and the company tries to acquire the phone back… Sounds possible, hm?

Plausibe explanation 3.
Apple runs a new virus campaign and leaks info to maintain the hype - this could have been likely if the iPad was not launched a month ago. Killing the wave of interest and enthusiasm at this stage is a professional seppuku and Apple knows better than that I guess…

And the contheo, the improbable but would-be-sooo-nice explanation
What if the competitors created the phone with all the good stuff packed in that is available now to create an iPhone that exceeds all the expectations of the fans to make them turn away from Apple when the actual phone comes out and lacks many of the features of the phone found and sold to Gizmodo…
Could be an element of a longer term strategy to make people like Apple less and make them look around and realize that there are other smartphones available from different manufacturers with different OSs… for instance Android comes to mind I don’t even know why…

And if I think about the change in the quality of the relationship between Google and Apple in the last 1 year then coming to the conclusion that this move may be the most recent pull-my-finger act from Google looks not that out of reach improbable at all…

I’m eagerly waiting for this case to be revealed however I’m afraid that it would happen years from now only when no one (but some consumer behavior freaks) would remember…