If it is lost, and picked up in a bar, many have argued salvage / abandonment / finders-keepers rights to avoid any criminal charges if someone tries to make a case of it.
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If it is lost, and picked up in a bar, many have argued salvage / abandonment / finders-keepers rights to avoid any criminal charges if someone tries to make a case of it.
I feel really bad for this guy but I could picture him losing an iPhone. Hopefully this doesn't end his career.
You are to naive... this guy beter reborn again in malasia and I bet he will be still hace to cary with loosing the iPhone karma.
excuse my british cynicism but this wreaks of a marketing stunt.
Complete media set-up.
And the oscar for best manipulation of press goes to.............
Complete media set-up.
And the oscar for best manipulation of press goes to.............
I do as well, considering the first PS3 sold for 30,000. A leaked iPhone HD at least 50,000
ok, how is keeping somebodies smartphone and then selling it no theft?
how is buying a phone that is most likely stolen not theft or something alike?
either this story is bunk or somebody gets into trouble very soon?
i mean i accidentally left my car unlocked for days while I was away. so I never came back to claim it.. if somebody had found it sitting in boston and had sold it for $5000 what would that be? (well, a pretty good sale...)
anyway, if this story was real apple could reclaim that phone by court order in 5 min. i call BS.
how is buying a phone that is most likely stolen not theft or something alike?
either this story is bunk or somebody gets into trouble very soon?
i mean i accidentally left my car unlocked for days while I was away. so I never came back to claim it.. if somebody had found it sitting in boston and had sold it for $5000 what would that be? (well, a pretty good sale...)
anyway, if this story was real apple could reclaim that phone by court order in 5 min. i call BS.
Let us have a moment of silence for poor Gray Powell.
That'll do.
Nobody accidentally screws over Apple and lives to tell about it.
That'll do.
Nobody accidentally screws over Apple and lives to tell about it.
Ditto. Their snarkiness had been grating on my nerves for a while now, but I'm done with them. Out of my RSS and my home screen on the iphone.
He didn't lose it. It was exactly where he left it, in the bar. He could have gone back for it the next day and retrieved it. Except that it was STOLEN by a fellow customer.
In a way, Apple *should* fire him. After what he did, letting him stay on sends an interesting message that runs completely counter to Apple's policies. You either enforce your policies or you risk others not taking them seriously. You can have your 15-minutes of fame by letting your company's prototype lying around. Not good.
And if it was intentional, then it actually sends the same message. The whole point is to not reveal who did it or that it was done intentionally at all. Once the cat's outta the bag it becomes a policy issue Apple *should* have no choice but to enforce.
And if it was intentional, then it actually sends the same message. The whole point is to not reveal who did it or that it was done intentionally at all. Once the cat's outta the bag it becomes a policy issue Apple *should* have no choice but to enforce.
Alcohol explains your first question. Next is tracking, so, how is tracking the location help? OK, now you know the neighborhood of the guy who pocketed the phone, then what? About your third inquiry: how do you do any real life testing without taking it out of the lab?
I think think it was lost on purpose as a marketing scheme. Remember when Apple use to issue take down letters to every website that had a blurry photo? Well we haven't seen any of those.
Apple knows how to play this game. They've created enough talk about the iphone, ipad and OS 4 to get them all the way to WWDC. They'll release a few more clues in the OS 4 betas over the next month or 2 and which will make for a lot of free press from sites like this.
Apple knows how to play this game. They've created enough talk about the iphone, ipad and OS 4 to get them all the way to WWDC. They'll release a few more clues in the OS 4 betas over the next month or 2 and which will make for a lot of free press from sites like this.
It may - because things aren't always as they may at first appear.
In other words: currently, this story has a lot of holes in it; let us sit back, take notes, names, and numbers, and see what transpires, that's all.
it's the later. this unprecedented "leak" is clearly marketing. does that employee even exist?
I love how people are hating on Gizmodo when it's the drunk idiot's fault (if this story is even true) for losing the iPhone. It's huge tech news, and Gizmodo paid to get the exclusive story. That's their business! I would have done the same thing if I had an inside scoop on a story relevant to my industry.
karma
Why I feel for the guy who lost the phone, his name isn't new information and he would have endured this public embarrassment anyway. And in Apple's control crazy product dev environment which goes overboard with secrecy and nda's, not to mention where fake information is used internally to target and test employees, this is karma.
Why I feel for the guy who lost the phone, his name isn't new information and he would have endured this public embarrassment anyway. And in Apple's control crazy product dev environment which goes overboard with secrecy and nda's, not to mention where fake information is used internally to target and test employees, this is karma.
Good luck with that defense if it ever reaches the criminal court.
Sure, this could be a marketing ploy, but revealing your hardware in minute derail 2.5 months before the release does not sound like a bright idea. This one seems real to me, but we'll see.
Okay this is just stupid. What is wrong with Gizmodo.
They have admitted to buying stolen property, and have a source who stole it.
Not to mention calling out an Apple employee as well.
this is like the worst coverage of anything ever. EFF GIZMODO.
For all we know the guy who got the phone STOLE IT... Jesus christ this is dumb.
Also since 5k was paid for this, this passes any monetary statutes for being a major felony. Gizmodo has to be run by morons.
They have admitted to buying stolen property, and have a source who stole it.
Not to mention calling out an Apple employee as well.
this is like the worst coverage of anything ever. EFF GIZMODO.
For all we know the guy who got the phone STOLE IT... Jesus christ this is dumb.
Also since 5k was paid for this, this passes any monetary statutes for being a major felony. Gizmodo has to be run by morons.
You know the rest of the world is not as uptight as Apple and Steve are.
Look around most company month and months ahead of a role out have it all laid out. Only company I see it almost like a cult is Apple, last time I looked Oracle or even Microsoft was not paranoid about this stuff.
Now we know its not Apple they could care less, they know their stuff will sell, but we do need to keep Steve ego up, he does have to have that ah and oh.
Perhaps no one cares enough about those company's products to necessitate the level of secrecy that Apple institutes. When you are as innovative as Apple, people may just start digging around. Okay, I'm not that much of a fanboy, but Apple does have a little more to worry about from their competition. That's what happens when you drive the market, others tend to want to know where you are going.
This is no stunt, a stunt would be accidentally putting a new iPhone in a 3GS box and selling it to someone.
Leaving it in a bar all you get is some drunk chucking it when it doest work. I feel bad for the guy who lost the phone.
Gizmodo is gonna get the pants sued off them.
Leaving it in a bar all you get is some drunk chucking it when it doest work. I feel bad for the guy who lost the phone.
Gizmodo is gonna get the pants sued off them.
Lame Gizmodo just made that guys life even worse.
The random rumor is ok, this was a bad bad thing to do to a person who made a mistake. A person up to this point we have appreciated for being on a team making products we enjoy. At the expense of likely his job, for a few clicks now a news RAG in my mind sunk to a low level especially since they had much more in for than they were printing.
It's obvious the lied to protect themselves and now are attacking someone else to try and shift the blame. It did not work.
The random rumor is ok, this was a bad bad thing to do to a person who made a mistake. A person up to this point we have appreciated for being on a team making products we enjoy. At the expense of likely his job, for a few clicks now a news RAG in my mind sunk to a low level especially since they had much more in for than they were printing.
It's obvious the lied to protect themselves and now are attacking someone else to try and shift the blame. It did not work.
Or it was an intentional plant of a real device to sway potential Nexus One buyers to wait a bit more. This story seems to clean and convenient. Nexus One has gotten a lot of good press and it would be in Apple's interest to stop its mojo.