How is it stolen property, if it was never reported as stolen and was returned to Apple as soon as Apple requested it?
Except Apple apparently did file a complaint that it was stolen.
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Originally Posted by Mark Booth
Remember, we haven't heard Gray Powell's account of what transpired that March 18 evening. I have this strong suspicion that Gray didn't lose his iPhone, rather, he was relieved of it without his knowledge.
It's starting to look that way:
To accept the Gizmodo story, you have to accept a whole string of coincidences:
- Gizmodo offers a large bribe for a new iPhone
- Someone just happens to walk into a random bar that happens to have Apple Engineers, including one with a rare iPhone 4G.
- Said engineer just happens to leave the phone on his bar stool and leaves the bar (keeping in mind that it is not unusual for something to be dropped on the floor or left on the bar, but I've NEVER seen something left on a bar stool)
- 'Finder' doesn't call the person whose phone it was - even though he knows their name and Facebook page
- 'Finder' doesn't answer the phone when it rings repeatedly that evening
- 'Finder' doesn't make any reasonable attempts to return it (mail it to Apple, drop it off with Apple, give it to the police, let the bark know he found it, etc). Instead, he calls an Apple tech support line - where people work from scripts and have no independent action authority
- 'Finder' just happens to call Gizmodo - a name known to only a tiny number of people relative to such far better known organizations like Fox News, CBS, CNET, Wall Street Journal, etc, etc, etc
Then, after Gizmodo finds out about it, the 'coincidences' just happen to continue:
- Gizmodo, who claims to have extensive contacts within Apple, can't find anyone better to call than the tech support hotline
- Gizmodo also never takes any of the above reasonable actions to return it
- Gizmodo claims that they didn't know it was an Apple phone - yet they paid $5 K for it (do they pay $5 K for EVERY unknown phone that someone calls them about?)
If, OTOH, the phone was stolen, you only need to accept that:
- Gizmodo claims to have extensive contacts within Apple. It is therefore quite plausible that Gizmodo knows where to find Apple engineers and probably even knows who carries an iPhone 4G. So, hardly any stretch of the imagination required at all - compared to the story that you're accepting hook, line, and sinker which requires a long stream of bizarre coincidences.
Occam's razor wins this one - particularly since Apple filed a report that the phone was stolen. I saw a quote from the DA from San Mateo county (I believe) stating that Apple had filed a complaint that the phone was stolen.
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Originally Posted by Wil
True, Gary Powell is capable of looking like an idiot, but it did not absolved Gizmodo of buying a prototype iPhone for 5000 dollars and bragging about it over the web.
It's not clear that Gary Powell is an idiot, anyway. All we have is Gizmodo's report - which requires suspension of disbelief on a lot of levels.
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How is it stolen property, if it was never reported as stolen and was returned to Apple as soon as Apple requested it?
Except Apple apparently did file a complaint that it was stolen.
Remember, we haven't heard Gray Powell's account of what transpired that March 18 evening. I have this strong suspicion that Gray didn't lose his iPhone, rather, he was relieved of it without his knowledge.
It's starting to look that way:
To accept the Gizmodo story, you have to accept a whole string of coincidences:
- Gizmodo offers a large bribe for a new iPhone
- Someone just happens to walk into a random bar that happens to have Apple Engineers, including one with a rare iPhone 4G.
- Said engineer just happens to leave the phone on his bar stool and leaves the bar (keeping in mind that it is not unusual for something to be dropped on the floor or left on the bar, but I've NEVER seen something left on a bar stool)
- 'Finder' doesn't call the person whose phone it was - even though he knows their name and Facebook page
- 'Finder' doesn't answer the phone when it rings repeatedly that evening
- 'Finder' doesn't make any reasonable attempts to return it (mail it to Apple, drop it off with Apple, give it to the police, let the bark know he found it, etc). Instead, he calls an Apple tech support line - where people work from scripts and have no independent action authority
- 'Finder' just happens to call Gizmodo - a name known to only a tiny number of people relative to such far better known organizations like Fox News, CBS, CNET, Wall Street Journal, etc, etc, etc
Then, after Gizmodo finds out about it, the 'coincidences' just happen to continue:
- Gizmodo, who claims to have extensive contacts within Apple, can't find anyone better to call than the tech support hotline
- Gizmodo also never takes any of the above reasonable actions to return it
- Gizmodo claims that they didn't know it was an Apple phone - yet they paid $5 K for it (do they pay $5 K for EVERY unknown phone that someone calls them about?)
If, OTOH, the phone was stolen, you only need to accept that:
- Gizmodo claims to have extensive contacts within Apple. It is therefore quite plausible that Gizmodo knows where to find Apple engineers and probably even knows who carries an iPhone 4G. So, hardly any stretch of the imagination required at all - compared to the story that you're accepting hook, line, and sinker which requires a long stream of bizarre coincidences.
Occam's razor wins this one - particularly since Apple filed a report that the phone was stolen. I saw a quote from the DA from San Mateo county (I believe) stating that Apple had filed a complaint that the phone was stolen.
True, Gary Powell is capable of looking like an idiot, but it did not absolved Gizmodo of buying a prototype iPhone for 5000 dollars and bragging about it over the web.
It's not clear that Gary Powell is an idiot, anyway. All we have is Gizmodo's report - which requires suspension of disbelief on a lot of levels.