The Apple Police

[maxximilian]

http://www.pcworld.com/article/23965...nal_probe.html

There's a new development in the caper involving a lost iPhone in San Francisco. A new report says the S.F. police will be investigating their own, specifically the role that officers may have played in assisting an Apple corporate security team in a home search earlier this summer.

The Apple employees appear to have been tracking an unreleased iPhone that had been lost by another employee at a local bar. The company claims to have tracked the phone to the residence of Sergio Calderon in the Bernal Heights area of San Francisco. According to S.F. police officials, officers accompanied Apple security members to Calderon's house but never entered. It appears that Calderon may have thought the Apple security employees were also police--he later told local media he never would have let them search his home had he known they weren't police.

OK....this is the second time this has happened with an iPhone prototype and I have a few questions.

1. If they aren't doing it on purpose for publicity....how can Apple lose their most important piece of technology....twice?

2. Why does Apple call the police when they do this? In neither case was there any question about the devices being lost as opposed to stolen (police matter). I don't call the police when I lose something.

3. Who cares? I mean what damage can be done by a lost prototype that will be on the market in a few months anyway? It's not like a competitor has time or inclination to copy...and face Apple's legal team, who sues anyone for anything.

Maybe time for Apple to quit playing the super villain mega-company from a James Bond movie....complete with hired thugs.....err......security people.

[Crimson Blonde]

I gotta start hanging out with Apple employees more often

[jdc2000]

Just one more reason I do not buy Apple products.

[SpywareDr]

Any publicity, good or bad, is publicity.