'Test Model' iPad Stolen During Robbery and Kidnapping at Cupertino Home [Updated]

[Reason077]

And like others have said - kidnapping and robbery is the headline here, not "iPad stolen"

Kidnappings and robberies, unfortunately, happen every day. But theft of a prototype iPad? Thats news!

 

[roadbloc]

There's been a kidnapping and a robbery but to hell with that, what of Apple's precious prototype black rectangle?

 

[TantalizedMind]

This is a pretty big screw-up by this young man. Can't imagine Apple's security team will take this lightly. This a step above leaving a phone in a bar or something.

You think it was the kids fault he got mugged and robbed?... Wow.....

 

[miketcool]

The Marc Newson designed Beretta Shotgun makes for a perfectly stylish way to prevent armed kidnapping while complimenting your Apple devices.

 

[OtherJesus]

Responded to a woman's online advertisement? Doesn't report being kidnapped for 5 days?

Hmm....

Those were my takeaways as well.

 

[ninjadex]

You think it was the kids fault he got mugged and robbed?... Wow.....

Wow? No, it's not really his fault that he got mugged. But it shows a lack of good judgement while in the possession of company property.

 

[7thson]

Most likely the iPad was not a prototype but running beta software, hence a "test device." If it had been a prototype, I'm sure Apple would have mounted a possie, put the corkscrews on some CI's and put check points every half mile.

 

[darkslide29]

Oh young techies with more money than they know what to do with..

 

[JeffyTheQuik]

Lessons learned... (needed for 20 year olds...)

1. Don't have prototype stuff at the house
2. Sometimes, people lie of Craigslist
3. Maybe, just maybe, try hookup.com for these kinds of things, and leave the iPad at home
4. Don't give people that don't know you on these types of things your home address. Meet at a neutral place.

 

[Rocketman]

Given it took 5 days to report the crime, and the victim was aparently an Apple employee and they caught the guys, indicates to me Apple security was notified first and right away, they conducted an investigation and reported the results to authorities with a nice bow.

 

[Danilo - Italy]

If this IPad was the next one do you think Apple could say this? #

If this IPad was the next one do you think Apple could say this? #

 

[PJL500]

Responded to a woman's online advertisement? Doesn't report being kidnapped for 5 days?

Hmm....

Hmmm.... Hmmmm.... HmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmH!

 

[ugcop]

If this IPad was the next one do you think Apple could say this? #

Exactly, Apple would never let it be known that somebody has a pre-release prototype. Even if pictures stared to show up they would be like politicians/crooks. Deny, deny, deny

 

[Neepman]

Its a Company town up there and a local police report could be easily sanitized at apple's request. Those knock-off case makers will do anything to get a form factor prototype. it's likely this horndog was honeytrapped.

 

[RogerWilco]

The Marc Newson designed Beretta Shotgun makes for a perfectly stylish way to prevent armed kidnapping while complimenting your Apple devices.

Does it fire fluoro elastomer buckshot?

 

[RenoG]

First of all i didn't realize that guys under the age of 75 kept that much money in cash in the house with them, wait that's right he was prepared to pay for a service that he would never ever forget.

 

[C DM]

First of all i didn't realize that guys under the age of 75 kept that much money in cash in the house with them, wait that's right he was prepared to pay for a service that he would never ever forget.

Hard to say how much cash there really was--the total of everything taken (electronics, prescription drugs, iPad, and cash) was estimated at $7500 all together.

 

[mikefla]

This should be easy to find. Look for a prostitute carrying an iPad Pro with a MacBook motherboard and running a full operating system.

Haha thank you for that!

-Mike

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First of all i didn't realize that guys under the age of 75 kept that much money in cash in the house with them, wait that's right he was prepared to pay for a service that he would never ever forget.

That is one expensive beech!

-Mike

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Exactly, Apple would never let it be known that somebody has a pre-release prototype. Even if pictures stared to show up they would be like politicians/crooks. Deny, deny, deny

That's right the Apple Secrete Service Police would be all over it lol...

-Mike

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Lessons learned... (needed for 20 year olds...)

1. Don't have prototype stuff at the house
2. Sometimes, people lie of Craigslist
3. Maybe, just maybe, try hookup.com for these kinds of things, and leave the iPad at home
4. Don't give people that don't know you on these types of things your home address. Meet at a neutral place.

Very nice please add:

5. Hookers and Ipad's Prototype's don't mix.

-Mike

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Could one of Apple's competitors be behind this?

If (let's say) Samsung somehow knew that a future iPad prototype was at this property, could we put it past them - or some shadowy middle man - to arrange to have it stolen and made to look like a random break in?

After all, having a few months advance knowledge of Apple's designs would potentially be worth tens or hundreds of millions in extra sales to an electronics giant which is known to have, shall we say, "loose morals".

Very possible sounds like a job by the Hooker Mafia...

-Mike