User blog comment:Master Sima Yi/Assassinews 19-03-'14 – Two Assassin's Creeds for 2014?: Unity and Comet/@comment-31.119.156.145-20140701175146/@comment-3046679-20140702111437

So, what you're saying is, Al just said that he'd hide his Apple on Cyprus, then went "Nope, lol" to throw off the Templars, but by coincidence, there was an Apple on Cyprus anyway, which is the one Ezio passed on to Desmond, indirectly.