Last week Steve Wozniak revealed his personal copy of the white iPhone 4. At first major outlets like CNN assumed he got special privleges because, well, he co-founded Apple. 

But Woz admitted in an email today that he got his white iPhone 4 just like the rest of the world, by buying a conversion kit from Fei Lam's website, whiteiphone4now.com. 

Apple blog 9to5mac jumped on this admission to call Woz's white iPhone a fake. But that's not exactly true. The most likely scenario? Apple had parts made for the white iPhone 4, but for unknown reasons, decided they were unhappy with them and scrapped the release.

These spare parts made their way onto the grey market, where they were snapped up by Fei Lam. 

So the parts are genuine Apple iphone components, they are just from a version of the white iPhone 4 that has not been, and never will be, released. 

Which, when you stop to think about it, kinda makes this version all the more rare and desirable. 

Check out the original Fei Lam story and Apple's follow up here >

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According to Lam's attorney, Andrew M. Jaffe, private investigator Jimmy Robbins, who first contacted Lam, was working for Apple.

But when Jaffe called Robbins, he was informed that Robbins was off the case, and Apple was handling it personally. "Now we're just waiting to hear from them officially," said Jaffe.

Since The Observer broke this story, Lam has had a hectic couple days. "Traffic to the site this month is equal to all the other months combined," Lam told The Observer. "I am just overwhelmed with emails." 

The story of Lam's entreprenurial genius made news around the world and was picked up this afternoon by several major papers in China. However, it was not clear until now who exactly was going after Lam. "I'm feeling pretty stressed, knowing it's the Almighty Apple who is coming after me," Lam said.

The Observer has reached out to Apple for comment.

READ THE ORIGINAL FEI LAM STORY HERE