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Law Enforcement Reportedly Looking Into Circumstances of Lost Next-Generation iPhone
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You're having a laugh aren't you. Theft of property, handling stolen goods. This is exactly what police should be investigating. Real crimes that have real victims, including a corporation having its trade secrets for an unreleased product splashed to the world.
As someone else said, had this been an unreleased windows phone, an unreleased android phone, or whatever I would argue for criminal charges. Theft is a very serious crime. Who knows what the guy spent that $5k on. It could have been for drug money.
I would. But I am sure you will come up with some story about what I would actually do.
Once again (as always) your logic is completely out of context. Obviously, $5000 to ME is a lot more important than it is to Apple, so it's Apples and Oranges. And heck, if I LOST $5000 worth of stuff, I would consider it MY FAULT. I wouldn't suspect that anyone would find it and return it. If someone DID find it, try to contact me, and my wife answered and ignored it, then the guy sold my stuff, I would REALLY consider it my fault.
Tony
It would be your fault. But at the same time, do you understand that there are two things people can do when they find $5000 worth of goods? They can think "Someone is probably missing this. I should tell the police/try to return it" or they can think "I get to keep this!"? And do you understand that one of those things is the right thing to do, while the other is selfish and not conducive to a community?
Also 5000 dollars is not the value of what Apple lost. They have lost a major part of their marketing campaign; the secrecy of their unveiled products. Further it was not a leak that was easy, it involved someone "doing the wrong thing"
Another ridiculous point here is that Apple somehow has lost "trade secrets". Yeah right - all that cutting edge stuff like a camera flash, a front facing video camera, and a higher density screen. The competition, almost all of which had this stuff on their phones LONG ago, must have been DYING for THAT information!
Tony
Again, you are wrong. The competition would love to know what is in Apple's up coming phone because they can plan marketing campaigns around it and change upcoming products. The fact alone that Apple is going with a higher density screen vs a larger screen is useful. As is the fact that there was no CDMA radio. And while LED flashes are not trade secrets, there ARE trade secrets in the phone...like they how all got it to fit, the processor, the battery, possibly a test version of OS4 different than the one released to the public, and other things that were not seen by Giz (like the main board) but nevertheless are in the phone.
Frak no. I'd go to Steve's house and drop it off personally.
Oh and I would tell the whole world I had found an iPhone 4G prototype. I would then say nothing else and watch them all go batsh*t insane.
Since it was sold for $5,000, it is worth at least that much. Which is why I said "$5,000 or more." I was just pointing out that the lowest possible value you could assign to the phone ($5,000) is worth being investigated.
Its actual value is likely many, many times that amount.
I have thought all along that the phone was actually stolen and not lost. That was the first thing I thought when I read the story. My guess is the list of people who had access to the new iPhone was somewhat known and that names might have been disseminated - hence employees being followed or 'stalked' in order to gain access to the new hardware. It does sound far fetched what I just said - but this is a multi-billion dollar company with a new piece of hardware that could 'scoop' the Internet and make or break a site.
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Ooh, that would be awesome.
Drive up. Security intercepts you. "Who is it? Do you have an appointment?"
"I'd like to see Steve please."
"Steve doesn't see anyone that he doesn't know."
*pull out the iPhone*
"... I think he'll want to see this."
*security confers with each for a moment*
"... Let him through."
Me too. Maybe ask him to autograph an iPad or something and someday it would be worth more than $5000.
Of course not.
I would try to milk it, legally.
That means I would send an email to Steve Jobs. Return the phone without asking for anything. However, I am sure that I will be given something worthwhile in return.
what a douchbag
I know this is not the place to post this, but I thought some of you might want to check this idiot out. http://finance.yahoo.com/family-hom...e-cautious?sec=topStories&pos=7&asset=&ccode=
I know this is not the place to post this, but I thought some of you might want to check this idiot out. http://finance.yahoo.com/family-hom...e-cautious?sec=topStories&pos=7&asset=&ccode=
Actually, no. The locals always stop by for halloween trick or treat and stuff. He's actually reasonably approachable, all things considered.
i'm guessing you say things like "NOBODY would EVER" or "NOTHING like that will EVER happen."
time to take your foot off the absolutes pedal, and throttle back on the hyperbole acceleration.
as soon as you say "NOBODY" ...you are basically wrong. about everything.
Gizmodo made a lot of money from ad revenue at the expense of Apple.
And I highly doubt Apple considers that "free advertising."