Turns out that not everything that people claim as ‘lost,’ really is. Word is sprouting that Gizmodo paid some $10,000 US for that little gadget.
If that is the case, they got it for a song. Gizmodo has been racking up millions of pageviews on the story as it storms across Digg, Reddit, and Twitter. It is the biggest story that we have seen this quarter.
A full, new, Apple phone, months before anyone hoped to get a poor camera shot of an out-of-date prototype? Scoop of the year for Gizmodo, and a major medal in the ongoing war between Engadget and Gizmodo for dominance in the gadget world.
This is a graph of Gizmodo traffic for the day, two hours behind as the surge broke their analytics program:
Count up the millions of hits and then calculate the Gizmodo CPM rate and multiply. Giz made a pile of money off of that $10,000 purchase.
People are worrying about how this will hurt Gizmodo and Apple, and that is a very, very fair thought. For now, however, Gizmodo is cleaning up. Today, Gizmodo won.
And if you are a lawyer, it is illegal to purchase goods that you know are stolen, right?
I doubt Gizmodo can expect to get an invitation to any Apple press events any time soon.
Yeah I have a feeling Giz is gonna find a lot of Apple press stuff is going to Engadget instead.
If this phone was indeed lost or stolen why hasn't the rightful owner attempted to use MobileMe's “Find my Phone” feature. You can't tell me that they don't have it, someone this close to Apple obviously has the service. You also can't tell me that no one has turned the device on since receiving it.
I have a feeling that in the days/weeks to come this will be revealed as a hoax.
Bill B, the Giz article says that the phone was remotely wiped, presumably by Apple. According to the me.com website, if you remote wipe your phone, “This will permanently delete all media and data on your iPhone, restoring it to factory settings. This will not suspend your wireless service. Once wiped, your iPhone will no longer be able to display messages or be located.” So it's a choice — find out where your lost phone is, or delete all the data on it. Once you do the latter, you can't do the former.
Bill B, the Giz article says that the phone was remotely wiped, presumably by Apple. According to the me.com website, if you remote wipe your phone, “This will permanently delete all media and data on your iPhone, restoring it to factory settings. This will not suspend your wireless service. Once wiped, your iPhone will no longer be able to display messages or be located.” So it's a choice — find out where your lost phone is, or delete all the data on it. Once you do the latter, you can't do the former.
Seems like you couldn't bear the gizmodo's win situation so all you could come up with is “it is illegal to purchase goods that you know are stolen, right?”
And if you are a lawyer, it is illegal to purchase goods that you know are stolen, right?
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Yes, it is illegal to purchase goods that are stolen. It's also illegal to find a lost item and keep it when you know who the owner is. For a full explanation of the iphone-Gizmodo situation from a lawyer, read this: http://www.avvo.com/legal-answers/company-prope…
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