iPhone 4

[[AK]Bribo]

http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2010/04/iphone-finder/

"A friend of Hogan’s then offered to call Apple Care on Hogan’s behalf, according to Hogan’s lawyer. That apparently was the extent of Hogan’s efforts to return the phone."

Yeah, my friend tried to return. Yeah.........

"“He made a mistake,” Bornstein added. “He should have just immediately turned that phone in.”

That's from his own lawyer.

[[AK]Squidly]

It boggles my mind that people could somehow blame Apple for actions taken by the police in investigating the theft of their prototype.

I have absolutely no sympathy towards to idiot who found the phone or the turd that bought it.

[[AK]Clay]

It's interesting, because I'm equally amazed how Apple fans can see no wrong in Apple's counter actions in this case. To say it was all the police just acting on their own as they normally would is ... wow.

[[AK]Hylander]

It's interesting, because I'm equally amazed how Apple fans can see no wrong in Apple's counter actions in this case.

Never underestimate the blinder wearing powers of the Apple Fanboy!

[[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.

[[AK]Gunny Highway]

Never underestimate the blinder wearing powers of the Apple Fanboy!

Yeah that's why I posted, Apple people are like crack addicts there is no wrong when it comes to their drug of choice

[[AK]Bribo]

http://tech.fortune.cnn.com/2010/04/...ps-on-gizmodo/

Which leaves open the question of whether Apple ever asked the authorities to look into the matter. We put that question to Apple public relations four days ago. We have yet to receive a reply.

UPDATE: A sharp-eyed reader points out that the Wall Street Journal Monday quoted a deputy district attorney saying that Apple contacted authorities and "advised [them] there had been a theft," which, according to the Journal, led to the search warrant and the investigation.

UPDATE 2: San Mateo County chief deputy DA Steve Wagstaffe offered more detail about Apple's role in an interview Tuesday with the San Jose Business Journal:

"Wagstaffe said that an outside counsel for Apple, along with Apple engineer [Gray] Powell, called the District Attorney’s office on Wednesday or Thursday of last week to report a theft had occurred and they wanted it investigated. The District Attorney’s office then referred them to the Rapid Enforcement and Allied Computer Team, or REACT, a multi-jurisdictional, high-tech crime task force that operates under the Santa Clara County District Attorney’s office."

[[AK]Gunny Highway]

Then the question is I guess was it actually a theft? or did the idiot leave it at the bar and needed to cover his ass. I still doubt there would have been the same response if Squid called and reported his phone "stolen". I think Gizmodo should be as accountable as say a pawn shop would for receiving stolen merchandise, but think they went overboard with their response.