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Finder of Lost Next-Generation iPhone Identified
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will be interesting to see how jobs "announces" the iPhone when everyone already knows it exists... probably some funny side comment to go along with it.
Wow, do you see in the future or only the past? Unless you were there, ease up on the assumptions on exactly how is happened
Wow, do you see in the future or only the past? Unless you were there, ease up on the assumptions on exactly how is happened
Occam's razor. If the goonsquad rang the doorbell the lawyer would be trumpeting all about it.
Then they shouldn't send out retarded employees who LOSE PRE RELEASED PRODUCTS AT BARS IN A DRUNKEN STUPOR.
How are they supposed to "know" it's an Apple product that they found. It's not announced by Apple and since Apple keeps things so tight-lipped, they could just think its a chinese look-alike/fake.
Someone finds something, sells it to someone else. What's the big deal?
Someone finds something, sells it to someone else. What's the big deal?
A good point. Then again, when cops find a husband standing over his dead wife with a bloody knife in hand, a murder/suicide note in his pocket, and 10 witnesses to the crime, they (the D.A.) still initially speaks in vague generalities about "alleged" crimes and "accused" perpetrators. It's how the law works. I wouldn't calculate the odds of the outcome based on what the D.A. is saying right now.
No, for one thing it was INSIDE an existing iPhone 3GS case...it wasn't found exactly as you see in the pictures. So to anyone just looking at it, it would have appeared as a regular iPhone 3GS.
What?!?!? If this statement is true Apple Inc. has some explaining to do. A private corporation cannot go in and attempt a search without law enforcement and a search warrant. Either this is a false statement or Apple believes they are above the US legal system. Scary!
Sure they can. Anybody who wants to can come up to your front door and asked to be let in and search your place. There's nothing wrong with that. It'd only be illegal if you denied them access and they forced their way in anyway. If you let them in, then no one has done anything wrong.
In this case, since the roommate denied them access and they didn't attempt to forcibly search anyway, no one did anything wrong.
i was just thinking the same thing. this just gives stevie a funny little intro into his iphone speech.
"some of you may be familiar with our development prototype..."
and everyone laughs. oh, stevie.
apple reps
although it seems kinda creepy that apple showed up to look for the phone, it's not illegal or even immoral. as someone pointed out -- if you knew who stole your phone you might very well go ask them to get it back (or if their roommate answered the door ask to pick it up). apple wasn't pretending to have special authority to enter the house without permission, they ASKED, and when turned down they left and did the next best thing, called the police. it sounds like they were trying to be nice if you ask me.
although it seems kinda creepy that apple showed up to look for the phone, it's not illegal or even immoral. as someone pointed out -- if you knew who stole your phone you might very well go ask them to get it back (or if their roommate answered the door ask to pick it up). apple wasn't pretending to have special authority to enter the house without permission, they ASKED, and when turned down they left and did the next best thing, called the police. it sounds like they were trying to be nice if you ask me.
No. Never. I have never even once found something of any value and just pocketed it (I probably *have* found a quarter in the middle of the street and kept it, but come on). I've found many things lying around in my life: wallets, phones, a laptop, cash, and even if you can believe it, a really nice brass sextant in a wooden box. I always did everything I could to get them returned. 99% of the time letting someone who works at the place where it was found works. This guy didn't even make that simple attempt.
Anyway, the point being, yes, as hard as it may be for you to believe, there are people who won't just walk away with someone else's property. It's the Right Thing™ to do.
Grey or gray Powell is 27 years old. That is past the age of innocent. Most employers hire people with the purpose of being mature people. Spin the yarn however you like but it's not apples fault that the phone was lost. That burden is on gray or Grey.
You just dislike apple and can't be rational about it so your taking the facts out of context and inserting it the way you wish it was
Yep. My mind thinks back to that 1985 style Apple advert they ran all those years ago. Oh the irony.
so that quarter.... never returned u say??? Careful folk in this forum might consider that theft!
Yes. It's creepy that "representatives of Apple" show up on the doorstep (they don't call, they don't have the police do it for them) of an individual they've tracked down, and when the individual isn't around they still ask the person who opened the door if they can come in and search the home? Assuming they were allowed inside, assuming the phone was not in plain view, how would the search proceed? I'm really scrambling here for a mental image that doesn't involve men in black pulling out drawers and turning them upside down, but it seems I don't have any non-creepy images in stock for this scenario.Yeah, one of the most valuable companies in America looking for a stolen/missing soon-to-be released prototype of their most important product in a many multi-billion-dollar market is, um, creepy.
Goons.
Really, Apple should calm the eff down. Why would they want to search this dude's apartment? It's not like the stolen iPhone was still in there. What would they have been looking for?
And besides, this is just a friggin phone. It's not like they were going to lose any money buy it being posted on Gizmodo. In fact, it was good, free publicity at first, now I feel it's turning bad. Apple is sending people out to search houses, police are busting down doors, .... Apple is doing damage to its reputation right now.
They should have let the police do their own job. They didn't have to send their own little private police force to a private citizen's house.
Me too. I'll wait now for Anuba to tell me how robotically law-compliant I am
(Well, I did go to Catholic school and the nuns had big rulers all the better to whack you with, so you tended to obey the rules)
Totally irrelevant. The finder knew the phone didn't belong to him. That's ultimately all that matters. You can't sell something unless you have legal ownership of it. Especially something worth $5,000 (or, in this case, arguably much more).
It's, oh, how do I break this to you, illegal?
There are rules/laws that must be followed in cases like this. The finder/seller of the phone most likely did not follow them.
You should totally head up to Maine for vacation sometime. I hear you can find fresh lobster in traps, just sitting there in the water waiting for you to pull them up and toss them in the boiler. Yum!