I blame the firmware
This sordid little tale comes from Apple’s support forums:
Please help! I took my husband’s iPhone and found a raunchy picture of him attached to an e-mail to a woman in his sent e-mail file (a Yahoo account). When I approached him about this (I think that he is cheating on me) he admitted that he took the picture but says that he never sent it to anyone. He claims that he went to the Genius Bar at the local Apple store and they told him that it is an iPhone glitch: that photos sometimes automatically attach themselves to an e-mail address and appear in the sent folder, even though no e-mail was ever sent. Has anyone ever heard of this happening? The future of my marriage depends on this answer!
Most of the membership is scoffing at the very idea, and this question popped up:
why would someone take a raunchy picture of themselves with an iPhone without having the intention of sending it to someone?
That said, I once took a fairly risqué shot of myself, kinda sorta, although not with any sort of phone; from that experience, I learned that my Photoshop skillz fall somewhat short of mad.
(Via Fark.)
Kay Dennison »
18 November 2008 · 10:04 am
LOL I’m not even gonna ask . . . my enquiring mind doesn’t want to know.
fillyjonk »
18 November 2008 · 10:28 am
“that photos sometimes automatically attach themselves to an e-mail address and appear in the sent folder, even though no e-mail was ever sent.”
Uh-huh. And I have some nice oceanfront real estate in Arizona….
Still, gotta give the guy some credit for creativity.
Tatyana »
18 November 2008 · 11:24 am
I knew it. It’s all my outdated T-Mobile habit: if I gave in to temptation and bought an iPhone, I too had photos inexplicably flying in and out w/o my input.
Damn, I miss all the fun!
CGHill »
18 November 2008 · 11:33 am
On my particular phone (Nokia 6133, T-Mo), it’s pretty easy to take accidental pictures, but it’s a bit less easy to send them out.