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TOTA - APPLE iPHONE & iPAD & Mobile News Thread PT1 (CLOSED) (pg. 192)
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| E2EK1EL |
Two camera-packing iPod touch prototypes appear on eBay
Remember all those rumors that surfaced last year and spoke of an upgraded iPod touch with a camera on board? Now is your chance to get your hands on not one, but two iPod Touch prototypes with a rear-facing camera. The iPod Touches are designated DVT-1 and DVT-2 and are thought to be units produced for Apple’s development team for testing purposes. These little pieces of iPod history fell into the hands of the seller when he spotted them at a flea market and purchased them from a another seller who reportedly obtained them from an auction. One iPod is completely non-functional while the other boots and reveals a partially complete SwitchBoardOS. Interesting, isn’t it? Hit the jump for a more shots of the prototypes.
EDIT: *Could be fake or Could be real, you be the judge.
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| VERTiG0 |
| How is that in any way legal |
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| E2EK1EL |
Apple and Santa Clara D.A. may file charges for found/purchased iPhone prototype
It’s bad when a trusted employee has to tell you that they’ve lost a future prototype of the product that single-handedly catapulted your company to the forefront of mobile devices. However, it is worse when the person who ends up with the lost treasure knows exactly what he/she has, and what it could be worth…and this soap opera ain’t sitting well with the folks in Cupertino. CNET is reporting that Apple and the computer crime task force of the Santa Clara District Attorney’s office are investigating whether the sale of the now infamous fourth generation iPhone violated the law in any way.
CNET explains where Apple could have a case:
Under a California law dating back to 1872, any person who finds lost property and knows who the owner is likely to be but “appropriates such property to his own use” is guilty of theft. If the value of the property exceeds $400, more serious charges of grand theft can be filed. In addition, a second state law says that any person who knowingly receives property that has been obtained illegally can be imprisoned for up to one year.
Any prosecution would be complicated because of the First Amendment’s guarantee of freedom of the press: the U.S. Supreme Court ruled in 2001 that confidential information leaked to a news organization could be legally broadcast, although that case did not deal with physical property and the radio station did not pay its source.
The suit may, or may not, be aimed at tech blog Gizmodo — the purchaser of the found iPhone — as Apple, the Santa Clara D.A., and Gizmodo all declined to comment when contacted by CNET. What do you think? Will this be a landmark case for Constitutional scholars, or is Apple just letting off some legal steam?
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| quote: | Originally posted by E2EK1EL
Under a California law dating back to 1872, any person who finds lost property and knows who the owner is likely to be but “appropriates such property to his own use” is guilty of theft. If the value of the property exceeds $400, more serious charges of grand theft can be filed. In addition, a second state law says that any person who knowingly receives property that has been obtained illegally can be imprisoned for up to one year. |
meh... what's $400 in 1872... like $400,000 today?
They'll spend more in lawyers costs than anything they'll get out of this case. |
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| Nick Cenik |
| Still waiting/hoping for Geo to release a JB hack for 3.1.3., 05.12.01, 3GS |
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| Abercrombie |
| quote: | Originally posted by Nick Cenik
Still waiting/hoping for Geo to release a JB hack for 3.1.3., 05.12.01, 3GS |
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| E2EK1EL |
| quote: | Originally posted by Nick Cenik
Still waiting/hoping for Geo to release a JB hack for 3.1.3., 05.12.01, 3GS |
I hope he doesn't until after June @ WWDC. (OS 4.0 & 4th Gen iPhone unchanged bootrom I hope)
Kinda pointless to release it now, when every app dev is all working on a 4.0 ver of their app & June is just around the corner. This would give Apple so much more power to change everything for 4.0 and mess up everything for us.
History will repeat itself if GeoHomo doesn't learn his lesson and wait for the right time |
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| Prometheus Xex |
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-98476984698987694835 for Apple!
Apple is getting under my skin more and more. |
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| VERTiG0 |
Hahhahahhahahahhahah.
http://gizmodo.com/5524843/police-s...chens-computers
| quote: | Last Friday night, California's Rapid Enforcement Allied Computer Team entered editor Jason Chen's home without him present, seizing four computers and two servers. They did so using a warrant by Judge of Superior Court of San Mateo. According to Gaby Darbyshire, COO of Gawker Media LLC, the search warrant to remove these computers was invalid under section 1524(g) of the California Penal Code.
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So funny. The best part is that they took the letter saying that they couldn't take anything. HAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAH
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| VDub |
Yah this is quite the little drama going on...
I find it hilarious that he PROVED to them that they couldn't confiscate anything and they did anyway...
It's obviously just Apple's security gestapo proving a point...
Pretty amusing still.... |
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| VERTiG0 |
Apple is just trolling the out of him, haha. Also he won't get any of that stuff back in a reasonable timeframe at all.
The cops are looking at naked pictures of his wife as we speak. |
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| E2EK1EL |
That's how the cookie crumbles, maybe Jason Chen should of double checked w/ his a lawyer before writing that article.
IMO execute them all! That leaked cost'ed Apple a lot of cash and all the other companies now got 2 months head start of R&D.
Imagine that unit was sold to the wrong hands? yikes. |
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