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Circumstances Surrounding Lost Next Gen iPhone Detailed
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Giz purchased an item that someone said was lost. How do they know this guy didn't steal it. They are going on his "word". I'm walking down the street and a guy says " hey man, I got some Watches I FOUND, want to buy some." If I do, I can get in trouble for buying stolen goods. Also they had the owners Facebook info. They could have gotten ahold of the owner befor trying to sell it.
lol. You guys are funny. You REALLY think this wasn't leaked on purpose? C'mon. The year we get a new design, it just so happens to get left at a bar. I mean, i'm sure Apple had NO interest in getting some public opinion before release so they could tweak the design, right? 
i was expecting more......considering that a new one without contract is $500
Hope you never make a mistake where someone, a stranger can choose to make a few bucks or end your career.. And they choose to end your career for a few dollars.
considering all this content has been removed via an Apple cease and desist, i have a feeling this is a controlled leak.
plus, nothing has been heard about the employee being fired...
plus, nothing has been heard about the employee being fired...
If you were entrusted with that kind of property by SJ then would you just leave it laying around? I would be paranoid that I would do something like that and not take it anywhere. I think it was on purpose.
You honestly believe anything left unattended is free to take and is *not* theft? And yo're calling me crazy?
I'd best not leave my car parked on the street unattended with people like you around who don't believe it's theft to take it.
It's one thing for Gizmodo to run the initial story about the phone and it's details, but it's an entirely different thing for them to go so far as to not only name the guy, but even post his Facebook page. He was already in enough trouble as it was, was it really necessary to add insult to injury?
Agreed! The phone wasn't their property. They could have taken it to a police station. Maybe even called APPLE. But, they took it. Excuse - gosh the owner didn't come back.....SORRY!
apple would have known straight away - this dude would have had the remote killswitch activated as soon as he realized what happened, and that wouldn't happen without higher-ups being informed.
right now apple marketing are probably trying to work out how to rejig their marketing plans to make this look less bad than it is but it definitely looks like a proper leak and some massively shady dealings going on at gizmodo.
Right, it doesn't make much sense. If the guy at the bar who found the phone was able to access Gray's facebook WHILE HE WAS AT THE BAR, why not post a message or send an email via Facebook? That guy had many means to get in contact with Gray before selling it to Gizmodo. He could have turned it into the bar manager and said, this is GRAY POWELL's phone.
But he took it home instead. Made a couple arbitrary phone calls to Apple (perhaps to see what the prototype was worth and how much he could get Apple to pay to have it back?) Then no one at Apple got back to him, so he sold it to the highest bidder.
Gizmodo and bar guy both acted in bad faith of the law.
I am not sure what that has to do with what I said.
the laws cover this. You have certain responsibilities. You can't just take something. The best procedure is to turn it into the PRIVATE establishment where you found it, not to steal it and take it home. If you pursue that course of action, then anything short of taking it to the police in a timely manner is stealing it. The reality is it is not yours so there is zero reason to leave the bar with it.
"Hey I am going to go down to the Apple Store tomorrow and find me an iPad." Heck screw that I will just go to denny's and wait until someone is looking the other way and find one.
Seriously do you guys just make stuff up? Losing something is not abandoning it. You can't find something in a private place and just take it because you like it. That is called stealing. The police department is the only one who can make a declaration that something has been abandoned.
What is the legal definition of a lost item? Regardless of it being "lost" or not, taking someone else's "lost" item and keeping it is stealing.
Paying someone $5,000 for telling their story about how they stole something and for the item itself can be any number of crimes.
Originally Posted by "goMac"
"They do let people take the iPhones out, actually. 2G iPhones were spotted in the wild before launch. Apple doesn't produce fake cases just for people to take the out and about on campus.
It's the only way to test the phones in actual, real world conditions".
You're right. I think it's done a lot more than most people think.
"They do let people take the iPhones out, actually. 2G iPhones were spotted in the wild before launch. Apple doesn't produce fake cases just for people to take the out and about on campus.
It's the only way to test the phones in actual, real world conditions".
You're right. I think it's done a lot more than most people think.
not adding up
Like others have said this just doesn't add up. Why no details on the internals? Chip? etc? I actually hope the phone does end up looking like this and this leak is great promo for the forthcoming generation. The iPhone is so hyped now it sells itself so seeing a peak of the phone this early will not hurt Apple in the least. In fact it will probably help sway people into waiting rather than jumping on a competitors phone "now".
Something is indeed rotten in the state of Denmark!
Like others have said this just doesn't add up. Why no details on the internals? Chip? etc? I actually hope the phone does end up looking like this and this leak is great promo for the forthcoming generation. The iPhone is so hyped now it sells itself so seeing a peak of the phone this early will not hurt Apple in the least. In fact it will probably help sway people into waiting rather than jumping on a competitors phone "now".
Something is indeed rotten in the state of Denmark!
Like I said this is getting spy vs spy like. Jut to strange to put all the names out as well as what they paid, its like they want to admit they did something wrong, this story is not making sense any more. Someone F up big time.
Agreed! The phone wasn't their property. They could have taken it to a police station. Maybe even called APPLE. But, they took it. Excuse - gosh the owner didn't come back.....SORRY!
If you actually read the Gizmodo article you would know that the person who found it tried calling Apple and no one there took him seriously.
This is apple orchestrated PR. If this was really a lost prototype then apple's lawyers would be suing to get it back. And we would have juicy details about the CPU and other hardware internals. Including a complete teardown.
This is a blatant attepmt to see what people think of the new case design
This is a blatant attepmt to see what people think of the new case design
Giz knowingly purchased an item it knew the seller did not own and had no legal right to sell. Trafficking in stolen goods. END OF STORY.