Is Gizmodo Pimping A Stolen iPhone?

19 Apr 2010

This Is Apple's Next iPhone - Iphone 4 - Gizmodo

Hey, I gotta ask.

Gizmodo broke the story today that they “obtained” a prototype iPhone which was “reported lost” from a bar. Well, they quoted the following in their story:

It has been reported lost

Apple-connected John Gruber—from Daring Fireball—says that Apple has indeed lost a prototype iPhone and they want it back:

So I called around, and I now believe this is an actual unit from Apple — a unit Apple is very interested in getting back.

Obviously someone found it, and here it is.

Well, the problem is, John Gruber never said it was lost, he said it was missing or possibly stolen:

Note that I did not use the word “lost”. It is my understanding that Apple considers this unit stolen, not lost. And as for the “someone(s)” who “found” it, I believe it is disingenuous for Gizmodo to play coy, as though they don’t know who the someones are.

Is Gizmodo pimping a stolen iPhone? What do you think?

Post written by Bwana

Tags: apple, daringfireball, gizmodo, gruber, iphone, new, stolen

http://Macslice.info/ kevinnunez

hmmm… Interesting.
morrispe

Andy Ihnatko has an excellent blog post regarding the Gizmodo iPhone story. Highly recommended.

http://ihnatko.com/2010/04/19/the-increasingly-…
http://bwana.org Bwana

Thanks! Great link!
http://www.bwana.org/forum FishTWiT

Hopefully this was obtained in a legit fashion ie found and not lifted.
http://twitter.com/foxyninja7 Kevin Schaul

Although it would be pretty horrible for this to be stolen, it does seem like this phone may have been planted in order to create the hype (as others have said elsewhere). Apple is very good at staying in the news, and this may be another one of their tricks.
http://xtctech.wordpress.com Fahad

I personally think Gizmodo DID NOT steal it, mainly because I can't actually visualize that happening.
http://xtctech.wordpress.com Fahad

I personally think Gizmodo DID NOT steal it, mainly because I can't actually visualize that happening.