iPhone 4

[[AK]Bribo]

A lot of this depends on when Apple realized that their employee had lost this prototype. If the kid who found it called before it was known by Apple that it was lost then you would expect Apple to blow it off.

After all, why would you call Apple if you found a lost iPhone? Would you call Motorola because you found a lost Droid? They would probably tell you to contact AT&T or Verizon or whatever cell network the phone was on to try to track down the owner.

But of course the kid ALREADY KNEW the owner as he had powered the phone on in the bar and seen the employees Facebook account. He didn't make any attempt to contact the employee at all.

[[AK]Rocks]

Property is generally deemed to have been lost if it is found in a place where the true owner likely did not intend to set it down, and where it is not likely to be found by the true owner. At common law, the finder of a lost item could claim the right to possess the item against any person except the true owner or any previous possessors.[3][4]

The underlying policy goals to these distinctions are to (hopefully) see that the property is returned to its true original owner, or "title owner." Most jurisdictions have now enacted statutes requiring that the finder of lost property turn it in to the proper authorities; if the true owner does not arrive to claim the property within a certain period of time, the property is returned to the finder as his own, or is disposed of.[5] In Britain, many public businesses have a lost property desk, which in the United States would be called a lost and found.


At least he has 5k for legal fees.