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Apple Loses Another 4th-Gen iPhone

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the ok-now-its-funny dept.

An anonymous reader noted that Apple appears to have lost another of its 4th generation iPhones. This doesn't seem like the most efficient distribution mechanism, Steve. Wonder if the SWAT team will get called in.

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  1. Re:Not wow. Marketing. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Troll

    Maybe it's because Apple does cool things and makes interesting products worth talking about. Unlike M$, the praise of Apple products comes from more than the company's own marketing department.

  2. Re:Lost? You keep using that word. by ColdWetDog · · Score: 0, Troll

    The day when Apple produced innovative unique products is in the past. They haven't reached the level of Dell yet, but they most repackage COTS hardware now. The Apple brand is now close to their most valuable asset.

    Please tell me that you don't believe that Apple products were ever made with unique, pixie dust laden components assembled by flawless virgins in a secret cave in the mysterious Far Eastern city nestled in a pastoral cloudscape.

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  3. Re:Lost? You keep using that word. by drinkypoo · · Score: 0, Troll

    Right. So instead of stealing one phone they can open and disassemble totally, they steal several and put those on sale, because that's safer for them? Quite a misdirection.

    Who said instead of? I meant to propose that they did it before.

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    "You're right," Fisheye says. "I should have set it on 'whip' or 'chop.'"
  4. Re:Lost? You keep using that word. by repressitol · · Score: 0, Troll

    Well, according to http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2010/04/iphone-finder/

    "The person who found and sold an Apple iPhone prototype says he regrets not doing more to return the device to its owner, according to a statement provided by his attorney Thursday in response to queries from Wired.com."

    "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."

    And from http://daringfireball.net/2010/04/gizmodo_prototype_iphone

    "California’s penal code, section 485: One who finds lost property under circumstances which give him knowledge of or means of inquiry as to the true owner, and who appropriates such property to his own use, or to the use of another person not entitled thereto, without first making reasonable and just efforts to find the owner and to restore the property to him, is guilty of theft."

    So the phone was stolen and sold...I'm not clear how the theft of the phone was "Apple's fault"?