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Apple Demands Prototype iPhone Back

InfoSecmgr said:
Not really. Our campus reps business cards still use the embossed Apple logo, and he is a relatively new (less than a year) Apple employee. I wouldn't put much stock into what font they used. Jobs himself doesn't inspect every memo that goes out.
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This hardly just any old memo. I'm sure Mr Jobs saw this one.
 
This crap is just too suspicious!
Gizmodo gets their hands on a so-called 4th generation iphone that was left in a bar by an engineer whose name we know(HOW!), his profession(How'd we get that?), his age(Whaaaaat) etc etc etc!!!
This has to be either one of the biggest corporate screw-ups in history with the end of that guys career, or Apple has set this all up cause they are about to BRING THE PAIN on the cell industry with the baddest, most feature rich cell phone on god's good earth!!!!
Praise the lord!
Can I get an amen!!!
Hallelujah!!!!!!!!!
 
Even if that was the final design and we see the exact same thing when it launches, i wouldnt be surprised if Jobs manages to convince us its brand new information. That guy is like a wizard when he's in front of a crowd :D
 
jav6454 said:
Not really, they acquired a phone from someone claiming so (as in risking $ for a probably cause). They didn't deliberately find it and keep it. It's not their fault the phone is or turns out to be the actual next generation iPhone.
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It's pretty obvious that it belonged to apple. We all knew it, gizmodo knew it, the guy who sold it for $5000 knew it, so it seems like everyone involved made the decision to keep and sell property that didn't belong to them.

Why didn't the guy contact apple when he realized what it was? He made the conscious decision to keep and sell it. Gizmodo made the conscious decision to buy property that they new belonged to Apple. Could you justify selling someone else's property if they dropped it?

I just hope the poor bastard who lost it doesn't lose his job, or that it was a planned leak by Apple. If someone loses their livelihood so a bunch of nerds could debate the shape of a cell phone, then we're in worse shape than I thought. Nobody did the right thing here...in fact, everyone went the distance to do the wrong thing.
 
Mark Booth said:
I wonder if Gizmodo's Lam or Chen or Denton will continue to be a smug as they've been today if Apple files a criminal complaint against them in federal court.

Mark
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Glad you don't run Apple, do you even know what that would be and how bad the PR would be for Apple. Glad the top at Apple can think.
 
Maybe this was the iPhone 4GS prototype and the 4g just looks like a regular iPhone
 
BrettJDeriso said:
...about the final product, that is.

There's an awful lot of speculation going on here over whether this was a controlled leak or a planned "accident" on Apple's part, but I think all of that (while entertaining) completely misses the point. Haven't any of you ever been to an auto show? Does the existence of thousands of exotic concept cars prove that they are -in fact- what the public will find in the showroom months later?? Crikey, if that were the case, 90% of the cars on the road would have gullwing doors by now.

Authentic or not, the existence of a test product in the wild proves nothing about the final form the next iPhone will take. They still have to have purchasing agreements with and reliable order fulfillment from sub-component manufacturers. So far, I haven't seen any of those (often much more reliable) leaks.
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The iPhone launch is only 2 months away. This CAN'T be a concept phone. Do you understand that? What you have seen here is a very near (if not) final production unit being field-tested by a baseband engineer.
 
Not even a please or thank you?????????? How ignorant of Apple.

If it where me I would conveniently 'lose' the phone once again. How would I accomplish this ? Well maybe i would be out for a beer tonight and maybe forget to pick it up at a bar? Put that in your pipe Apple and smoke it. Ignorant tw4t5.

Manners go a long way SJ, did your parents not teach you that?

Apple should be grateful that Gizmodo never kept quiet about the phone and sold it to a rival. Im sure Sony, Google or anyone else would have been very interested in this.

Smash it up Gizmodo and send it to them in bits. They want the phone back, didnt say what condition though. Cite that your were protecting there technology.
 
Seriously?

Look at the stationery. Closely. The font at the bottom is Apple Garamond. Apple hasn't used Garamond in YEARS (since 2004 in fact). In all my communications with Apple as a certified technician, all letterhead was in Myriad. All communications to the retail stores? Myriad. Body of the communications? Myriad. Nice fake.
 
catnmouse said:
Look at the stationery. Closely. The font at the bottom is Apple Garamond. Apple hasn't used Garamond in YEARS (since 2004 in fact). In all my communications with Apple as a certified technician, all letterhead was in Myriad. All communications to the retail stores? Myriad. Body of the communications? Myriad. Nice fake.
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It's an email.
People don't send email on letterhead.

Gee you guys read too many spy novels.

C.
 
CplBadboy said:
Not even a please or thank you?????????? How ignorant of Apple.

If it where me I would conveniently 'lose' the phone once again. How would I accomplish this ? Well maybe i would be out for a beer tonight and maybe forget to pick it up at a bar? Put that in your pipe Apple and smoke it. Ignorant tw4t5.

Smash it up Gizmodo and send it to them in bits.
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THAT would be an offence, at least by UK law. Criminal damage.
 
I was a bit 'meh' abou them running the article on the phone itself and the methods they used to acquire it.

But when they outed the engineer to the world like that, I pulled them from any feed I had and I will never read a gawker media site again.

Bunch of jackasses. I hope they get sued into oblivion like ThinkSecret did. They deserve it, ThinkSecret didn't.
 
CplBadboy said:
Not even a please or thank you?????????? How ignorant of Apple.

If it where me I would conveniently 'lose' the phone once again. How would I accomplish this ? Well maybe i would be out for a beer tonight and maybe forget to pick it up at a bar? Put that in your pipe Apple and smoke it. Ignorant tw4t5.

Smash it up Gizmodo and send it to them in bits.
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The question is.......

Will it Blend ? :D
 
Not that this has anything to do with this whole story (or maybe it does), but doesn't Apple announce their Q2 results today?
 
I think there's the possibility that while the innards of this iPhone is real, the case may be a complete fake--the new iPhone will look more like 3G/3Gs model.
 
tigres said:
This headline should be changed to- Apple kindly asks for their property back.

That letter says nothing of Demanding.
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Hehe true. But I bet they made a call to verbally accompany the letter. In case Gizmodo doubted to return the phone.
 
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