User blog comment:D. Cello/Assassin's Creed: Revelations (PC) - Official Assassin's Creed Wiki Review/@comment-187.105.170.237-20111221184831/@comment-187.105.170.237-20111221213125
Just because Altair had the Apple while writing the last Codex page doesn't mean he didn't went to Cyprus to seal it as he had previously mentioned once the Codex was finished. So let's see the facts... Altair writes in Codex page #26: "(...)So it shall be sealed. We WILL take it to the island - once theirs, now ours. There is a treasury there – hidden well - and it shall have to suffice. Risky to separate myself from the artifact that others may discover it. RISKIER still to keep it close.(...)". But then he changes his mind.. "No I will keep it with me, let me just use this whole Cyprus thing as a everyone who tries to put his hands on the Apple, yeaahh!!" But then, for Altair's misfortune, Templars put their hands on the Codex and set sail to Cyprus and then in an incredibly amazing strike of luck there was indeed an Apple hidden there all along!!!! Ohh Altair you are soo ingenous, couldn't you come up with any different place for the Apple?? Why did you have to pick Cyprus, you silly!! Yeah right.... For me, it's a plot fail.