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4th gen iPhone prototype found in bar?
Meomix:
This shit has reached corporate espionage levels now.
The fact that Apple would go as far as to raid his home means that prototype is not a joke.
http://digg.com/tech_news/Could_Gizmodo_Face_iPhone_Leak_Charges
http://digg.com/world_news/Did_Gizmodo_Break_The_Law_By_Publishing_iPhone_Photos
http://digg.com/apple/Apple_Dissects_Jason_Chen_s_Computers_Confirm_They_Are_Real
http://digg.com/apple/Did_Apple_Call_The_Cops_On_Gizmodo_2
mgz:
--- Quote from: Meomix on April 28, 2010, 06:57:54 PM ---This shit has reached corporate espionage levels now.
The fact that Apple would go as far as to raid his home means that prototype is not a joke.
http://digg.com/tech_news/Could_Gizmodo_Face_iPhone_Leak_Charges
http://digg.com/world_news/Did_Gizmodo_Break_The_Law_By_Publishing_iPhone_Photos
http://digg.com/apple/Apple_Dissects_Jason_Chen_s_Computers_Confirm_They_Are_Real
http://digg.com/apple/Did_Apple_Call_The_Cops_On_Gizmodo_2
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who cares? apple has every right to do this. Its an unreleased product that may have been stolen and then sold to the press as a possibly incomplete item. They called the cops reported the item stolen, describe it and then when the bullshit pops up on the internet at they call the cops again and say HEY THAT PHONE IS THE ONE THAT WAS STOLEN. wtf do you think happens?
kurandoinu:
Agreed. Just because its Apple its become a case of "They're so evil for this!" Surely you'd want to protect your products, especially unreleased ones!
kyanwan:
--- Quote from: kurandoinu on April 28, 2010, 10:27:34 PM ---Agreed. Just because its Apple its become a case of "They're so evil for this!" Surely you'd want to protect your products, especially unreleased ones!
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That's the problem though.
If I decided to release a brand new computer, with a bigger hard drive, a camera, a better network card, a bigger screen, and a slightly differently shaped case ...
is it really a new product?
It's an improved version of the same exact thing that they released a couple years ago. With a bit of improvement. It's no big secret. It's the same old iphone with different parts.
Who is going to be surprised? "GASP! I heard they're improving the capabilities!" "GASP! I hear it's going to have a larger storage capacity!" "GASP! I hear it's going to have a SD-Micro slot!"
Is this trade secret? No. Not really.
I see nothing to be fantastically excited about. Man ... if the guy were still alive, I'd love to e-mail my old technology ethics professor. He was a JD attorney whose undergrad degree was Comp Sci. [ Guy died of a heart attack. He was one of my youngest professors too - barely over 40.... ]
I bet that guy would know the answer to this whole shithole.
( Based on the facts presented here, IMO, Apple loses - and I'm looking from the standpoint I just took above. I suppose eventually, we'll see someone else's [read: a judge's] opinion on it to see how this stands under the law. There is nothing truly novel about this new improved iPhone, and it's no secret at all - with tens of millions of them on the market. What comes next, put a blue line instead of a silver line on it - and then it's a new trade secret model that warrants prosecution if stolen or revealed? )
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Now on the OTHER hand - if this had been the iPad which were leaked and released - THEN - I would say Apple has a rock-solid unarguable case of stolen trade secret.
[ BTW - On a side note, where do you think prosecuting something like this will lead? IMO wikileaks is a criminal organization which should be shut down. Yeah. You got it. Apple IS Big Brother doing something like this. If Apple gets a positive ruling on the people who released their crap - what do you think the can of worms will look like ... after it's been opened? ]
mgz:
apples actions are dick, but perfectly just. Be it just an improved version of the old version or not its still a technically new model. A prototype for it is owned by apple. And is stolen either intentionally or by mistake. You cant blame apple for this you can call gizmodo fucking stupid though
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