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- epic_rim0
a guy found a phone in a bar, knew it wasn't his, and sold it for $$$ to gizmodo, who knowingly bought something that was stolen.
The DA is going to prosecute.
- pillhead0
Gutted.
- johfiner0
how was this stolen? it was found in a bar and sold to somebody else, who happened to take photos of it, and then returned it to the rightful owner upon request. it's like me finding your brown bic lighter and selling it to somebody.
- BannedKappa0
I don't understand why they need to take camera's?
Why can't they just take the memory cards...
- mydo0
so when can i buy one?
- Kiggen0
I don't like Gawker is mis-using the journalism laws.
This is to protect journalists that come out with important stories, ...
Not for a guy who wrongly acquired technology. This is degrading what generations of journalists had fought for. This sets also an ugly precedent for future 'coincidental' discoveries.- +1PIZZA
- -1pr2
- x 14(a + b)iCanHasQBN
- why -1, its true. Its makes a mockery of actual journalism.Kiggen
- OP - fanboy of Microsoft, Apple and any other money hungry corporationpr2
- dMullins0
Boy this story really had some arms and legs to it, eh?
- pillhead0
Do I fill sorry for Gizmodo, no not really, blowing the lid on a Multi Million dollar Iphone campaign and product placement will piss allot of people right off. Get what you deserve I suppose.
- mg330
Everyone who thinks Apple is the bad guy here (and judging by so many of the idiotic comments on the web, plenty think they are), think about it this way:
Let's say an editor working on the next Harry Potter book happens to leave a copy of it in a coffee shop. A person finds it and and quickly discovers that something's not right: they've got a big bound stack of pages that they can likely find out is an unreleased book - the next Harry Potter book that nobody knows hardly anything about.
Then they shop it around, find someone to sell it to. That person reads the whole thing, and posts key excerpts from the book that can influence someone in terms of their choosing to buy or not buy it, essentially revealing trade secrets not meant for public consumption. Or, let's say they put the whole damn thing on the web for anyone to read, ahead of the release date.
Are they guilty? Yes. What are they guilty of? IMO this is the same with Gizmodo: they knew damn well what they had on their hands and should have been scared shitless to even mention what they had on their blog.
I can't possibly imagine being mad at Apple for their involvement in any of this. They are working with a task force to determine how their trade secrets, intellectual property, and unreleased technology still in development were disseminated to the public months in advance of their official public release.
Apple is doing what any company would do, and what any of you would do if your intellectual property were violated and non-public information were provided to the public.
- mg33 would you download a CAR?georgesIII
- LOL - what does that even mean!mg33
- i would if i could. even if i could, does it run?pango
- pr20
The second the trade "secrets" get left behind in a bar, they stop being secrets!!! Don't be an idiot. Think before talking.
- e-pill0
this reminds me of that scandal with the pre-release of X-Men Origins Wolverine.. 1 month pre-release the world already sees it sans some effects and final 1 minute..
did it effect sales.. who knows.. but i saw both versions.. and apple fanboys will purchase the new phone regardless of what it is..
its scary to know there are more apple fanboys than comic book nerds in the world..
- plus its scary that the fanboys don't see this being about: big guys can do anything they wantpr2
- apple strong hand in taking "their" lost property was a lil like something Lex Luthorishe-pill
- maybe all apple fanboys are really closet case comic book nerds in training..??e-pill
- i'm not a fanboy, i'm just explaining this semi-journalism.Kiggen
- your a comic book nerd we know.. your at the weekly smallville meetings..e-pill
- SteveJobs0
who cares. both parties are at fault here. apple and beer-drinking engineer (BDE) should have taken extra steps to avoid this and gizmodo had to know there'd be reprocussions after this, though they probably weighed this against all the extra press they'd get. sounds like everyone is getting what they deserve.
meanwhile, consumers are more caught up in this stupid "controversy" and have long forgotten about the phone itself.
- quack0
seller of stolen goods guilty of not attempting to return it to rightful owner and sells to 3rd party who has ulterior motives that knowingly can have detrimental effects on the rightful owner
poor apple is right. get 'em steve