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iPhone Leak: Police Seize Gizmodo Computers

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Hot off the press from a respected radio station in London (UK not Ontario lol). Place your bets. Lucky me, my 18 month contract ended last week, maybe an upgrade will be due on June 7th lol. :D
 
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And the revelant part of the article is this:
One of Gizmondo's founders - Stefan Eriksson - was eventually found guilty of being involved in organised crime, but only after he drove his rare Ferrari Enzo into a ditch in Malibu. in November 2008, Gizmondo director Carl Freer announced his intention to launch Gizmondo 2, but nothing's really been heard of him or his company, Media Power, ever since.
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So it seems gizmodo were on shaky ground from the start.
 
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I don't know to be honest.
 
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I have a funny feeling that is a different company. Spelling is different and they made some handheld game system?
 
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dtravis7 said:
I have a funny feeling that is a different company. Spelling is different and they made some handheld game system?
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I think it is different, I believe Gizmondo was based out of the UK.
 
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this whole thing has gotten way out of hand. Who knows what really happened some dumb engineer takes a priceless prototype to a bar most likely looses it because he was drunk then decides to claim it was stolen. I don't know about the rest of you but if I worked for a company like Apple and was trusted with one of probably only 20 prototypes, I certainly wouldn't let it leave my hands or even take it out of my home, And I dam well wouldn't take it to a freaking bar and drink alcoholic beverages....

Gray Powell= Dumb ***
 
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Well, having worked for the government for several years, and having some good friends who work for the video game industry, I can honestly say the gaming companies win at paranoid security measures, so I can only imagine places like Apple and MS are even more so...I would be very surprised if said employee who originally "lost" the prototype still has a job.
 
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Publicity stunt indeed

The ploys used for new launches of apple products gets more and more ridiculous. I wouldn't doubt that it was a publicity stunt.
 
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There's really going to be trouble when the cops figure out this was all a hoax/publicity stunt. But then, they only have themselves to blame for falling for it. After all… who REALLY loses a cellphone in a bar? It's preposterous!
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Uh, you've apparently never dated some of the same girls I have. But, I hear you. I thought about it being a publicity stunt as well. I'm getting way too cynical. And I did love the good samaritan that returned the cell phone after tearing it open and looking at the guts. I wouldn't have even thought of that- I guess because I know that I could get it apart but never never never never get it back together again.
 
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PaulDaniel said:
Uh, you've apparently never dated some of the same girls I have. But, I hear you. I thought about it being a publicity stunt as well. I'm getting way too cynical. And I did love the good samaritan that returned the cell phone after tearing it open and looking at the guts. I wouldn't have even thought of that- I guess because I know that I could get it apart but never never never never get it back together again.
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LOL! Reel 'er boys, I caught me a big 'un!
 
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The ploys used for new launches of apple products gets more and more ridiculous. I wouldn't doubt that it was a publicity stunt.
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People, I highly doubt it was a stunt at this point. Use some common sense. If the police got involved, it was most likely at the behest of Apple. I really don't think that law inforcement would just get involved without Apple knowing about it, and if it was all a stunt I also very much doubt that Apple would have let the police go into this man's home and seize his stuff before they disclosed that it was just a stunt.

If that IS the case, i.e. it was a stunt and Apple did nothing, there is going to be one **** of a countersuit filed against Apple and this whole "publicity stunt" will backfire in their faces.

In other words, the most logical conclusion is that this was no stunt. It is what it appears to be, and everybody needs to take off their conspiracy theory hats and just see it for what it is.

Apple is a huge company with a huge following. They absoutley have no need to go to these lengths to sell their product. Their products sell themselves. This kind of thing is also beneath a company of Apple's reputation and they wouldn't waste their time on it.
 
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what the heck

Ya i heard about this and i couldn't believe it. Oh well just proves what apple can do nowadays.
 

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