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Apple Demands Prototype iPhone Back
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I didn't say production has begun, I said tooling the production line has begun. I'd be VERY surprised if they haven't passed their drop-dead date on design changes.
As far as the 22nd goes...read up. Pretty much a lock-in.
What ever it is, its one wild ride, a first for Apple. Can't remember anything like this ever from them.
Wild enough that NY Times ran an article on the Business side, love to see what tomorrow brings.
Now I do feel sorry for the guy who left it.
Could this really be Gray Powell?
http://www.flickr.com/photos/graypowell/
http://news.cnet.com/8301-17938_105-20002885-1.html
http://www.flickr.com/photos/graypowell/
http://news.cnet.com/8301-17938_105-20002885-1.html
Still think Gizmodo's made a bitch move by posting an article about the guy that lost the phone, I'm quite sure his day at work was EXTREMELY INTERESTING outside of now being known as one of the biggest goofs in history.
Marketing...
i think this was planted as a marking to drum up hype. Apple can now release the device early and have it ready to ship in June or sooner. Jobs can walk up on stage and say, "I think you might have already heard about this" and the crowd will eat it up. People withhold purchases of competing brands in anticipation of what they know Apple has and they continue to dominate.
i think this was planted as a marking to drum up hype. Apple can now release the device early and have it ready to ship in June or sooner. Jobs can walk up on stage and say, "I think you might have already heard about this" and the crowd will eat it up. People withhold purchases of competing brands in anticipation of what they know Apple has and they continue to dominate.
Trade secret applies if you bribed an employee to smuggle the phone out(similar cases too.. depends on the context of the case).
This isn't the case. Lost + found, then sold to someone. Perfectly fine on the someone, its the finder that should worry.
I will never visit Gizmodo again. They completely ruined what a good number of people, me included, wanted to be surprised about. Then they want to be pricks and basically hold it hostage until they get hard proof that Apple wants it back. F them! 
Just so you know - as the story goes, attempts were made to return the iPhone shortly after it was found. It wasn't until several weeks later that it landed in Gizmodo's offices.
The First Amendment's "freedom of speech"/"freedom of the press" is applicable only to government entities.
Let me rephrase, since you've suddenly gone pedantic. What's with the myth that you can do it *without repercussion*? Your reply is akin to saying that you can murder someone. Well, yes, you *can*, but...
I wouldn't be surprised, because I've spent the last ten years working on products that get used by, conservatively, 60 million people daily. You're talking about test units, not prototypes. A test unit is going to have bugfixes up to the moment of release; this is a different thing from a prototype, which is still being evaluated on significant implementation characteristics.
Wow...I bow to Apple...well played..well played...
This has to be one of the best controlled leaks Apple has conducted....and anyone that seriously thinks a high profile Apple employee in possession of a prototype iPhone "forgot" it at a bar youd have to be totally blind.
This is Apple's marketing machine at full force...they are geniuses.
This has to be one of the best controlled leaks Apple has conducted....and anyone that seriously thinks a high profile Apple employee in possession of a prototype iPhone "forgot" it at a bar youd have to be totally blind.
This is Apple's marketing machine at full force...they are geniuses.
What? Different cases, different applications of the law. Don't confuse them. Also, there ya go, you just said it. The prototype can still be re-evaluated or revised into something different. Something I strongly believe Apple is considering at this point.
What gets me is why did they do it. What was if any the purpose of naming the person.
It is a goof but only if Apple is not looking at it and saying, hey lots of people think its an ugly design. My own opinion of course.
It could be... but I find it kind of peculiar that he would still leave that up, and even as recently as last week, still posting pictures of beer.. I mean, if I was in his shoes, I'd probably be done with Flickr all together.
GIMMIE BACK MY SON!!!!
OMG! Apple's VP looks just like the guy from Braveheart !!
Incroyable!
bye bye June/July release
...interesting story, however the problem in people being so impatient to see the new design is that now Apple will redesign the thing and people in the US will have to wait until fall to get the new iphone
Did I mention that we over here in Europe will then maybe have this "magical and revolutionary product" in Jan. 2011 !!!! Oh, sorry my mistake...that was the iPad. At least we have enough time though to save Euros.
...interesting story, however the problem in people being so impatient to see the new design is that now Apple will redesign the thing and people in the US will have to wait until fall to get the new iphone
Did I mention that we over here in Europe will then maybe have this "magical and revolutionary product" in Jan. 2011 !!!! Oh, sorry my mistake...that was the iPad. At least we have enough time though to save Euros.
That's BS and you know it. Sure, this doesn't have much to do with Giz and they can't violate trade secrets and other laws but the First Amendment is applicable to all, not just Government Entities.
1. I didn't say trade secrets applied to this case. I was pointing out that "The First Amendment" is not some blanket license.
2. You are again wrong. "Lost + found" is not recognized in the law, and buying something when you know or should know that the seller is not the owner constitutes the felony of receiving stolen goods, as well as the civil tort of being a convertor, among other things.
You clearly have no idea what you're talking about on either the law or the tech.