Cops Raid Gizmodo
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- prophet0
what swat were rocking to while raiding gizmodo...
http://neetrecordings.com/Booooo…
- vaxorcist0
Someday Steve's gonna lose at something like this and boy is it gonna hurt....
- Pixter0
what a fucking circus
- mg330
- ETM0
This represents everything wrong with society. Could the cops have been doing something more important that raiding a nerds house. And for what? What did they think they would recover... more photos or write ups that had not been released? Damage was done. Sounds like a fishing expedition. No Stevy boy knew the right people in high places and wanted some revenge done on this guy. And this guy was just the face for Gizmodo, its not like he dished out the 5 or 10k himself, so why is his property being seized but nothing at Gawker?
Besides, any publicity is good publicity and its not like it was some early prototype revealed. I am sure Chinese children in factory cities are already pumping these things out.
- maybe, like giving parking ticket. as the city needs the money.akrokdesign
- mg330
I have wasted far too much time in the interest of this story, reading blog comments, etc. because frankly it's a fascinating story.
But after digesting various viewpoints on the topic, the blame lies squarely on Gizmodo for being in the spot they're now in. They're not stupid. Jason Chen is not stupid. Posting the teardown of the phone to the blog, in my opinion, is the one place where they really went wrong.
Buying the phone - I get that. Taking it apart - I get that too. But the second they realized this was a near-final-production 4G phone is when Chen should have said "Oh fuck..." and contacted a lawyer and gotten in touch with Apple. They could have turned the phone in, and it could have been his curiosity of whether or not it was a knockoff or the real deal that caused him to buy it and take it apart. Just think of the goodwill that may have come their way if they'd gone that route.
Now, I know there's info out there about how Apple at first said that they hadn't lost a phone, but that's beside the point. As soon as Chen knew what he had, posting it to the blog was the very last thing he should have done. If anything, a post saying "we've seen the new iPhone, but that's all we're gonna say" would have been fine. THEN to perhaps post about it after the phone was debuted might have been a potential story.
Hopefully, though, we will also see what happens to the person that sold it, and see if there's truth to their "I tried to return it" story.
- you'll never get back all that arthur kade time... no matter whatquack
- hahahaha - man, you're insane.mg33
- hahahabigtrickagain
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- inteliboy0
The amount of nonsense people go on about when it comes to Apple and Steve Jobs is insane. If this was any other company, for one, no one would be going on about the CEO's part in all of this, and secondly, well, no one would really give a shit in the first place...
Besides, you'd get police knocking at your door if you stole anything of value from a standard desk-job office. Let alone a fuck up like this with a giant like Apple.
- subcommandante0
So how many of you who have lost a cel phone have had a SWAT team recover it for you?
Just askin'...
Welcome to America. Either your a player or your not.
Steve is a player. No one here is.
- BTW - Fuck Apple and all you fanboys.subcommandante
- IP is lost on you huh? imagine had it been sold to China, it stayed local at leastquack
- you are disqualified. have fun designing posters for the revolution.spifflink
- @quack - Sold to China? Why, its fucking made there!! What are you on??ETM
- bigtrickagain0
dude, they bought a stolen phone from a guy, and instead of returning it, mined it for secret goodies and blasted it all over the internets.
- prophet0
exactly. there's no way stevie would be all like 'you gizmodo guys, ah man you got us, oh well...' -- instead he's shitting atomic bombs. no surprise there. and yet as i type this i wonder... who gives a shit in the grand scheme of the universe? lolswirl.
- akrokdesign0
1. an stolen item from a company. (apple)
2. the stolen item and a possible thief showed his face, name.
3. the police enforcing the law. nothing else.- try the same when you shit gets stolen, lets see how well that goes. besides the property was NOT stolen.pr2
- won't go as well cause the thief won't post him self online.akrokdesign
- DoktorDavid0
lolz - what did people expect? Gizmodo was showing off ffs... of course someone is going to be offended and drop a dime on them. Dumb asses could have easily set up a dummy/blind website, did their thing and then Fedex the device back to Apple... oops; that might have been too easy.
- whereRI0
this is all a very very good publicity stunt
- pr20
I can't believe you tools up there who think it's OK for a big corp to dictate how the police should respond to when some dude post something on the net. You guy who think it's OK are more dumb and living in the dark then the fuck from the Matrix.
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- ukit0
This topic has a lot of potential for tomorrow. I'm predicting 200+ responses.
- spraycan0
- who is this fucking idiot?spraycan
- Um... someone with an opinion? On Apple's payroll? Who cares...DoktorDavid
- when apple fanboy becomes a full time jobspraycan
- georgesIII0
- is that who i think it is?pango
- yep. it's steve
IT IS NOT MOHAMED PLEASE STOP HARASSING MEgeorgesIII
- gabe0
something similar happened when my fiance and i were on vacation in the dominican republic. we were on an ATV cruise with a group of other tourists (a handful american, a few europeans, a large group from germany, and lots of folks from spain and australia). there are about five or six stops along the way—the beach, a lagoon, mud trails—you get the idea. at each stop, there are tons of locals (both children and adults) trying to sell little knick-knacks, fruits, hand made jewelry, etc.
as you approach each stop, you park single file behind the ATV in front of you so that you create one long line with about 30 other ATVs. as we get ready to leave the second stop, a woman and a man appear to be having some words with our tour guide, although most of the other tourists aren't really paying much attention. not sure what's going on, i decide to see what the hold up us.
as i start to approach the beginning of the line, i notice that it's becoming something much more than a minor confrontation...there's a furious couple screaming bloody murder at our tour guide (who from the beginning—despite his terribly broken english—i thought seemed like a pretty nice fellow).
the woman is an american, maybe 5'5", about 250lbs; her husband was very similarly proportioned. the woman and husband are screaming fuck this and fuck that, and fuck you, and things like "we're americans!#$ you should be so lucky we come here@#% we're the reason you have an economy...we're going to get you fired, we're going to tell everyone about fucking horrible this ATV trip is!"
it was at this point, after about 2 minutes of listening to this vile woman completely belittle and berate our tour guide—and feeling oddly guilty for being an american—that i decided to intervene. frustrated and curious, i ask what the group what the problem is. the couple turns to me and shouts—as if seeking my approval to justify their anger—"someone stole our sandals. our FUCKING sandals! can you believe it? they were nikes! they were $40!"
the story continues, but suffice it to say that i had many very, very angry words with this couple, which led to the end of the altercation altogether. we continued our ATV tour—only to be completely covered in mud 5 minutes later, grinning from ear to ear.
i guess the point of my story is this: it's a big, bad, often unforgiving world. if you forgetfully leave something that is easily stolen—especially in a second world country—don't expect it to be there when you come back. if you do make this mistake and someone does take what you so carelessly left behind, please don't go crying to the police about something so petty as your precious little sandals.
some poor little kid may have gotten the best pair of shoes he'll ever own. maybe he'll even sell them...but in the end, who really gives a shit about the fucking sandals?
- Sorry - don't get your point here.DoktorDavid
- Meaning: I don't see the parallel...DoktorDavid
- meaning. if you leave shit lying about, it's gunna get stolen. then dont go crying when it does.Stugoo
- So it get stolen and then gets used without your permission and then that use...DoktorDavid
- ...allows you to bust the person who stole it don't call the police? Huh?DoktorDavid