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However, the kid who did this has something to learn about dealing in obviously stolen parts.

How the hell would you know the parts were stolen? If they are legally purchased with proof of purchase such as a receipt Apple cannot do anything apart from file a lawsuit against the supplier that sold the parts.
 
Apple is really unfair. But they have to do anything to get as much money as possible. IMO quite like many lawyers.
 
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AppleScruff1 said:
I messed up and wrote can when I meant can't, so I ruined my own attempt at humor. I went back and edited the post, but the punch line has lost its effect. :D

Lol no worries. Happens to me as well now and then.
 
I am not sure why people keep calling him a dumb kid? How many of us on this board were importing goods from China and reselling them at 16? You can say he did the wrong thing or whatever but I am not seeing dumb here. He might of mad more this year than many of the people calling him stupid.
 
I am not sure why people keep calling him a dumb kid? How many of us on this board were importing goods from China and reselling them at 16? You can say he did the wrong thing or whatever but I am not seeing dumb here. He might of mad more this year than many of the people calling him stupid.

So true. Obviously the kid is quite intelligent, it just was misdirected a bit.
 
Lessen the punishment a bit, but make an example out of him so crap like tis doesn't spread.

If it were up to me the kid should have to agree to never use anything but a Dell netbook running Vista for the rest of his life. That would put the Fear of Steve into anyone else considering such a thing again.
 
Someone needs to tell this kid that if he wants to live in NYC and rip people off he needs to go to an Ivy League school and get a job on Wall Street first.
:cool:
 
I wouldn't even bother bringing a lawyer, the suit is already withdrawn...there's not much to fear at this point, if you think about it.

This.

They will come to some kind of agreement/understanding. The kid will have to sign a non-disclosure, along with his parents, to never talk about the case, and you will never hear about it again.
 
He should plead the fifth! :cool:

The fifth is only good if there's no way the plaintiff can prove anything.

Here there are clear transactions of him selling stolen Apple parts or something that pretends to be legitimate Apple parts.
 
The suit is withdrawn, there is no upside in meeting with Apple's corporate counsel.
Dismissed in a way that does not prevent them from bringing it ack up.
Seems to be BS.

Lawsuits CANNOT be filed without his knowledge, unless he or his parents choose to ignore the legal letters.
Lawsuits very well can be filled without someone's knowledge, I'm fairly certain. There is to my knowledge no legal prerequisite to filing a lawsuit that requires you to notify the defendant(s) /before/ filing.
I bet the nazis would have let him off the hook

Godwins law fulfilled.
Fail. Godwin's law does not apply to intentionally bringing up Nazis and such in order to invoke it.
This is truly unfortunate. They are basically saying that nobody can sell parts for me to modify my phone. They have essentially patented the color white on an iPhone. That's stupid. This would be like Ford suing paints shops for painting cars the same color it came from the factory. Why can't I buy parts for MY PHONE in white and install them? Its MY PHONE.
You can buy parts for you phone. Apple just wants to make sure if it says "Apple" or has their logo, they made it. If it does and they didn't (or they did but it was not released for sale) they will go after the sellers.

Anyone selling something with a Ford logo is paying ford for their logo (or risking a lawsuit).
 
The product is Apples, and it is up to Apple to decide whether or not to release it, not some snot nosed algebra student. The joke is that people dont think this kid should be held accountable. just because he is a teenager doesn't make the crime any less. if some dumbass teenager breaks in to my house and steals my iMac im not going to tussle his hair and say "eh dont worry about it, you're just a teenager."

Are you seriously saying that people cannot modify a product that they bought? Who cares if it's Apple's product. You're telling me that you cannot remove the superdrive in a MacBook pro and replace it with a hard drive or solid state drive because Apple says so?

Do you really think Apple didn't have access to the kits this kid was selling? If that was the case why didn't he just sale straight to Apple.

Did it never cross your mind that maybe Apple wan't satisfied with the quality of those parts and that is why they didn't release them and also why they didn't want this guy to. Maybe Apple doesn't want someone else deciding what meets the "Apple Standard".

But then again, maybe your right and this guy figured out how to fix a manufacturing process problem that completely stumped Apple, who happens to hire some of the best people in the world to fix those problems. If that is the case (which i'm sure stranger things have happened) i would expect to hear that Apple has hired him on for a couple 100K a year.

Who cares if the parts weren't up to Apple's standards. What does this have to do with anything? It wasn't Apple selling them -- it was this teenager. People can modify things they buy as they choose. Are you telling me that all of the manufacturers of aftermarket parts for cars should be sued? Aftermarket window tinters should be sued because they didn't go through the dealer? Give me a break.

Oh you are so clever. Apple had plenty of white cases that didn't quite work well enough to be sold without hordes of people complaining. This teenager got hold of these white cases and sold them. Everybody who bought them bought something that in Apple's eyes wasn't in saleable quality.




He is of course both.

Again, who cares about what Apple thinks is sale-able quality -- they weren't selling them. And how do you know this teenager got a hold of these specific white cases? They are really not that hard to make, as there were tons of them being sold.
 
Are you seriously saying that people cannot modify a product that they bought? Who cares if it's Apple's product. You're telling me that you cannot remove the superdrive in a MacBook pro and replace it with a hard drive or solid state drive because Apple says so?



Who cares if the parts weren't up to Apple's standards. What does this have to do with anything? It wasn't Apple selling them -- it was this teenager. People can modify things they buy as they choose. Are you telling me that all of the manufacturers of aftermarket parts for cars should be sued? Aftermarket window tinters should be sued because they didn't go through the dealer? Give me a break.



Again, who cares about what Apple thinks is sale-able quality -- they weren't selling them. And how do you know this teenager got a hold of these specific white cases? They are really not that hard to make, as there were tons of them being sold.

again this has nothing to do with modifying the iPhone. It has everything to do with the kid selling something that pretends to be a legit Apple part, or a stolen Apple part.
 
The fifth is only good if there's no way the plaintiff can prove anything.

Here there are clear transactions of him selling stolen Apple parts or something that pretends to be legitimate Apple parts.

What does that prove? Those parts could have been found in some garbage can. If I find Dell parts in a dumpster I am with in my rights to sell them. I have no idea either way but neither do you so stop stating things that are opinions like they are facts.
 
again this has nothing to do with modifying the iPhone. It has everything to do with the kid selling something that pretends to be a legit Apple part, or a stolen Apple part.

Just saw this post so pardon my double post. I can sell original Corvette parts for a Chevy if they are not stolen. If they are stolen or not is really the issue and as there is no criminal complaint so far it suggests not.
 
What does that prove? Those parts could have been found in some garbage can. If I find Dell parts in a dumpster I am with in my rights to sell them. I have no idea either way but neither do you so stop stating things that are opinions like they are facts.
:rolleyes:
I think finding it in a dumpster is the only defense you can find.

Find me a dumpster that I can find that many unreleased legit or KIRF Apple parts.
 
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