Someone leaves a prototype Pixel 3 in a Lyft ride and nobody seems to care

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• Some poor Lyft driver reportedly finds a prototype
  Pixel 3 XL in the back of his car and unlike days gone by the
  tale generates little attention. 
• The Pixel 3 XL is expected to make its official debut
  in October but has been plagued by so many leaks that the
  handset found by the Lyft driver has nothing new to
  reveal. 
• The ho-hum response is a sharp contrast to the days
  when Apple suffered a rash of misplaced prototype iPhones that
  skeptical observers suspected a publicity stunt.  
    

A Lyft driver claims to have discovered a
prototype Pixel 3 XL in the back of his car that one
of his fares had obviously forgotten and passed on the
information as well as a few snapshots of the handset to the blog

Android Police. 

The blog posted a story and the photos on Saturday and the
response has been subdued to say the least. As Android Police
reporter Corbin Davenport accurately noted, the Pixel 3 XL has
suffered so many leaks leading up to its
expected October unveiling that the handset found by the Lyft
driver had very few secrets to reveal. 

The driver said that he found the phone in the back of his
car and recognized that it was an as yet unreleased Pixel from
the now-famous notch and the Google logo on its
back. 

The driver returned the phone to the owner soon after,
according to Android Police. 

Back when two separate Apple employees lost possession of

two prototype handsets in a span of a year, despite all the
evidence to the contrary, some skeptical observers suspected that
misplaced handsets was part of a publicity stunt.

Regardless of what happened back then, it’s highly unlikely that
Google dropped the prototype Pixel in a Lyft to drum up
attention.

When these things happen, maybe it’s better to suspect
incompetence before conspiracy. 

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