iPhone 4

[[AK]Hylander]

I disagree Apple didn't do anything wrong. If you lost your phone and called the police would you expect the same result? Of course not, Apple must have made this out to be a bigger issue than it was, to cover up the fact that a "douchebag" employee was at the bar and lost his phone.

Gunny - I haven't read anything about Apple contacting authorities to press charges. If they did, I'd like to hear / read more about that aspect. I believe the California REACT team was acting on their own fruition due to the publicity.

[[AK]Clay]

Gunny - I haven't read anything about Apple contacting authorities to press charges. If they did, I'd like to hear / read more about that aspect. I believe the California REACT team was acting on their own fruition due to the publicity.

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.

Apparently Apple did call it in as a theft - this after it had been returned by people who found and then returned it, upon confirming that it was missing. Sounds like pure spite. My only hope is that the Gizmodo raid was not suggested by Apple. My hope is Apple was more interested in some pointed questions at the original finder - who IMHO does have some explaining to do. As to Gizmodo, whoever made that call was wrong. Why do subpoena's even exist, if even in a case where there was no burglary, they deem it appropriate to do a raid and seizure?

[[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]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