I'm not sure Apple wants that liability. Look at all the crap they're getting for improperly defining "Push" in mobileme. Now imagine that scenario the first time a mac gets stole with this new support and they are unable to recover it.
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iPhone thief takes my iPhone in while my friend is working at Apple store
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I'm not sure Apple wants that liability. Look at all the crap they're getting for improperly defining "Push" in mobileme. Now imagine that scenario the first time a mac gets stole with this new support and they are unable to recover it.
There is a policy. Read up on what the person said about the guitar.
To the gullible, you do know that 2 newbies with zero posts before posting near identical implausible stories and agreeing with each other on the internet doesn't make it true?
My friends at Apple Store are ROTL at such poorly written fiction. (You think Apple is run by some monkeys and no one ever had to deal with stolen merchandise, ever, for over three decades?)
Like I said, I will post the correspondence with Apple when this is all done, but since this is ongoing, that would not be wise right now.
I am a fairly creative person, and if I was going to make up a story, it would be a lot more original than this.
The detective said apple never cooperates with law enforcement. I can only expect smugness like yours on a fanboy site.
If your friends at the Apple store want to verify this, so that you all can be a little less mean-spirited, have them contact Javier, the Regional Loss Prevention Manager.
The last communication we got from our detective is that Apple legal has agreed to turn over the requested information.
Oh, and thanks, Hawkeye411! You are all so smart, and funny here at macrumors!
Viva La Apple Legal and Loss Prevention, and keep enjoying that delicious coolaid.
Ah, now the Koolaid joke gets trotted out. Sounding more trollish by the minute.
I clearly must be trolling, you are so smart. I wasn't really looking for sympathy, but I wasn't really expecting the level of smugness I've seen here either. I guess this is why I've never hung out on this forum before, and I'll never start another thread here again. I posted my story here, because I thought it would be met with way too much hostility on the apple support forums. I think I would have been better off posting there.
I can tell you from my experience with Apple, though most of you don't believe me, that the macbook story most likely real. And I'd like to update my post as this plays out, but you don't want to hear it, and you want me to go away. So I will. I'll just PM cdenes, because I really want to know how her story ends, but this thread should come to end. Earlier, one astute macrumors member wanted to lock this thread, and now that seems like the best idea, as it's turned into nothing but taunting.
oh my god, all those people that say that both of these stories are fiction ares so weird. You know that apple isn't perfect. Geeze, some people in these forums treat Apple as their god. They aren't perfect at everything. For example, look at their mobile me service. Now, when you die-hard fanboys read this post and get angry and start calling me a microsoft die-hard or something, you should know that I appreciate apple in some aspects, but not all.
oh my god, all those people that say that both of these stories are fiction ares so weird. You know that apple isn't perfect. Geeze, some people in these forums treat Apple as their god. They aren't perfect at everything. For example, look at their mobile me service. Now, when you die-hard fanboys read this post and get angry and start calling me a microsoft die-hard or something, you should know that I appreciate apple in some aspects, but not all.
Firstly, I haven't decided whether I believe this or not.
However, I understand Apple is not perfect and I consider this story to be in the realm of being reasonable. The only reason he is being questioned is due to the fact this is his first post. The story itself is not what is in question, it is the validity of the poster.
If a 6502a posted this, I don't think it would have been picked apart so fast.
I hate that this is your first expierence here at MR, but this was a poor choice to make your first post
I hate that this is your first expierence here at MR, but this was a poor choice to make your first post(S)
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True.
But sometimes people make posts to a forum to see what reaction they get. Why? Because they are trying to get answers to questions that, if asked outright, would incriminate them. Kind of like walking into a drugstore and asking for some topical ointment saying that "my eldery grandpa needs it". If you get my drift.
(Assuming this thread is indeed genuine)
What needed to happen right then is that she needed to take that phone and walk out the back door of the store. Additionally, she needed to provide you the man's info. Why? Because now a criminal is walking the streets instead of being locked up. (Yes, assuming he did not merely buy the phone from the actual thief).
Later you can compensate your friend monetarily and also repay her for getting fired (if she had) by helping her find a new, better job. The most important part is that you did a service to your community by getting this piece of trash off the streets. And you kept him from breaking into someone else's how later that night - maybe this time he would get interrupted in the burglary and shoot the homeowner out of panic.
Do not trust the system in cases where you can take control yourself in a legal and safe manner. Obviously you don't confront the guy, but you can still get immediate results.
What needed to happen right then is that she needed to take that phone and walk out the back door of the store. Additionally, she needed to provide you the man's info. Why? Because now a criminal is walking the streets instead of being locked up. (Yes, assuming he did not merely buy the phone from the actual thief).
Later you can compensate your friend monetarily and also repay her for getting fired (if she had) by helping her find a new, better job. The most important part is that you did a service to your community by getting this piece of trash off the streets. And you kept him from breaking into someone else's how later that night - maybe this time he would get interrupted in the burglary and shoot the homeowner out of panic.
Do not trust the system in cases where you can take control yourself in a legal and safe manner. Obviously you don't confront the guy, but you can still get immediate results.
Hmmm...I frankly hadn't considered that possibility. I'm skeptical a thief would go to the trouble of writing out not one but TWO such elaborate posts just to test Apple's policies in this regard. But you make a fair point...
I don't know what's harder to believe, the original story or some of these theories everyone else has suggested. Stuff like this happens all the time. It's not too hard to believe. I remember someone posted that their car was stolen in an automotive forum and within 48 hours one of the members saw it on a motor way, had followed the thief home, and had detectives over there ready to recover the car in no time. As to posting this to make Apple look bad... seriously?
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