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Apple Investigators Posed as Police in New Lost iPhone Prototype Search?

arn said:
Why would Apple, the most secretive company in the world, not contact the police who would make a police report?

hmm...

arn
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It's one thing to look for your lost phone... it's entirely another to pose as a police officer. It does not take a genius bar to figure out that posing as an officer is a serious offense.

So again... either the Security people at Apple are a bunch of DA's (as in Dumb-A's) or this story has a lot of BS tied to it. :D
 
This is awesome hahah
WTF is going on!!!

Can't wait until we get the goods and all these rumors can be put to rest
 
Mr. Pink said:
Is it really that hard to believe? Their testers are a bunch of young kids, my age, who don't appreciate what's necessary to be responsible with their jobs the way Tim Cook-level guys do. They're just getting into the game. They're still enamoured by the joy of landing a job at Apple and living the life. In their youth, they're going out and spending some I-work-for-Apple-dammit cash on drinking with their buddies. So in a year's time, two of them left their test phones at the bar while doing so.

Also this:



It's not that crazy to believe. Especially given the craziness over last year. I wouldn't put it past Apple to try to avoid police involvement this time around as it did them little good last time. Sure, justice was served to a degree, but it was such a headache.
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I find it hard to believe because I think Apple learned from the first instance and doesn't just hand out iPhone prototypes willy-nilly anymore.

If they ship them in secured lock boxes to carriers, why would they treat lower level employees any differently? The value of an iPhone leak story is probably close to an entry level employees salary, don't you think the monetary incentive would cause someone to leak it, if they had access?
 
I will SHHH myself if it lands in the hands of Gizmodo! THAT would just be one hell of a twist to this story. A very entertaining one, at that. :D
 
Looks like you have a 1 versus 6 he said/he,he,he,he,she,she said. If they did not actually identify themselves as law enforcement, then I am not sure what the issue is. It is funny that Apple seems unable to hold on to prototypes.

What does he mean wearing badges of some kind? Police badges or some facsimile of police badges? Apple employee badges? "of some kind" is not saying much...
 
My theory so far is that the person who has this either doesn't know what he has, or he sold it someone who doesn't know what they have.

It's either a modified, unreleased iphone 4, an iPhone 5 in an iPhone 4 shell, or an iPhone 5 and the rumors that the case would change from the iPhone 4 are wrong. If it was an actual redesigned case iphone 5, someone would have the intelligence to sell it to the media. I think Gawker has proven they are willing buyers.
 
Wirelessly posted (Mozilla/5.0 (iPhone; U; CPU iPhone OS 4_3_5 like Mac OS X; en-us) AppleWebKit/533.17.9 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/5.0.2 Mobile/8L1 Safari/6533.18.5)

I cant help narrating the story with the cold case files guy in my head

"the phone was last seen in a popular local bar. After that, it vanished"

*cue dramatic slow fade to black
 
wovel said:
Looks like you have a 1 versus 6 he said/he,he,he,he,she,she said. If they did not actually identify themselves as law enforcement, then I am not sure what the issue is. It is funny that Apple seems unable to hold on to prototypes.
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From the OP (and the article):

Calderón said that at about 6 p.m. six people -- four men and two women -- wearing badges of some kind showed up at his door. "They said, 'Hey, Sergio, we're from the San Francisco Police Department.'"
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Macopotamus said:
I find it hard to believe because I think Apple learned from the first instance and doesn't just hand out iPhone prototypes willy-nilly anymore.

If they ship them in secured lock boxes to carriers, why would they treat lower level employees any differently? The value of an iPhone leak story is probably close to an entry level employees salary, don't you think the monetary incentive would cause someone to leak it, if they had access?
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Apple didn't need to learn anything the first time. They, and companies like them, have known for years that product leaks and misplacements happen. I'd be willing to bet the way their testers handle prototypes is exactly the same now as it was last year. What would they have changed? Only give the prototypes to employees that have been with the company for X amount of time? Gotten to a certain level?

As an executive, I'd have to assume that all of my employees from the bottom Bob the janitor to the top Tim Cook (it's weird not saying "to the top Steve Jobs") all value their jobs and wouldn't do anything as irresponsible as leaving prototypes at bars. Otherwise, why are they working for me in the first place?
 
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