Apple turning into a real scumbag corporation - raided Gizmodo editors home

andrewdeerpark

From BBC today
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/8645884.stm

Also
http://www.theinquirer.net/inquirer/news/1602890/apple-sends-cops-raid-gizmodo-editors-house

and
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2010/04/26/gizmodo_iphone4_raid/


Turns out Apple are turning into a real secretive don't mess with us scum bag lets trample on freedom of speech rights company.

This coupled with their attitude to Adobe flash, the locked down apps on the Itunes store and most importantly the secretive recovery of their dear leader Steve Jobs from an apparent terminal illness (serious questions here that were not asked by the world media).

Just what will they do next? More importantly when will their Jehovah Witness type customers start to see through the cult of Jobs company and its increasingly rotten morals; stop buying their products.

Hope Nokia goes after them big for their Iphone intellectual property case.

Pittens

Lol. Can you even read?

The Californian police raided the guys home because they handled stolen equipment. Apple do not control the police. There is no, as yet, civil case here. It is a simple case of theft.

This coupled with their attitude to Adobe flash,

Flash is sh*te and nobody is forcing you to buy an iPad. Buy a Mac,it's got flash

the locked down apps on the Itunes store

Like all mobile stores until the Android ( and even then Google bans tethering apps)

and most importantly the secretive recovery of their dear leader Steve Jobs from an apparent terminal illness

Tin foil hat.

andrewdeerpark

Maybe you should read the BBC article fully and I quote:

"The raids were conducted by the Rapid Enforcement Allied Computer Team (React), a Californian computer crime taskforce.

The taskforce was set up on 1997 to address the rising problem of computer fraud and identity theft.

It works closely with the computer industry and Apple is reported to be one of 25 tech firms to sit on the steering committee. "

The evidence against Apple is starting to mount. You mean to say a few emails and phone calls weren't made???? Lets come back to the real world .... of lobbying and connections at the highest level.

Don't remember Microsoft, IBM, Intel ever being able to get such quick reactions from issues with their leaked IP.

I still stand over Job's health recovery and the issues surrounding that....

Pittens

Maybe you should read the article.

Police in California have seized computers belonging to the editor of a gadget blog which was involved in the purchase of an iPhone prototype.

Apple reported a crime, or an alleged crime, and the police acted. Now what happens is they investigate. The police, not Apple. Then if they think they ( the Police, not Apple) have a case they wil bring it to a court where a judge ( not Apple) will take a case and decide on it's merits.

Don't remember Microsoft, IBM, Intel ever being able to get such quick reactions from issues with their leaked IP.

IS THAT BECAUSE ALL OF AMERICA IS RUN BY APPLE!!!!

Microsoft is just tiny in comparison.

This is not just IP ( normally a civil case) it's simpler: a valuable item was fenced. The people who bought it knowingly paid for it. There is no way the seller is not going to jail - that could only happen in a world where taking stuff and selling them on were legal which is no known legal system. The question is whether Gizmodo knowingly handled stolen equipment is up to the court.

EDIT: Gizmodo say the search warrant was invalid as it contravenes california law on journalistic priviledge. If so, that means that the court will throw it out. However, the original guy, if named, will get time. I dont know if Jason Chen can keep that journalist hat all the way through proceedings. Or how much information journalists can hide.

The police were county police from San Mateo. Apple is based ( and pays taxes) in Santa Clara and Cupertino.

Pittens

I still stand over Job's health recovery and the issues surrounding that....

Sure, he was saved by APPLE's control of the medical establishment. They fed him kittens and children to stay alive. Bill Gates would have died.

sceptre

andrewdeerpark wrote: »

most importantly the secretive recovery of their dear leader Steve Jobs from an apparent terminal illness

"Most importantly"? Good lord.

A wizard did it.

Sad Professor

Shouldn't this be in the conspiracy theories forum?

MunsterCycling

Nah the evil overlord Jobs just bought himself a liver.

andrewdeerpark

The inquirer piece sums it up nicely:

http://www.theinquirer.net/inquirer/feature/1603304/apple-coppers-broke-law-iphone-raids

Basically Apple's spin doctors trying to downgrade online Journalists to bloggers (what a nasty PR bunch) eliminating all freedom of speech and protection of sources rights just to get at Gizmodo sources regardless of the wider consequences of freedom of speech; a cornerstone of our free western society.

Maybe to many of the Apple executives working in China (churing out iphones, ipads etc) have brought back some of the Chinese ways of dealing with protest and discent!