Found: The iPhone prototype finder

The more I think about this, and the more I read regarding the circumstances, the more it sounds like it was planted in this kid's hands for a publicity stunt...

Oh yes, leave it with the bartender. HE would have left work immediately and driven it over to Infinite Loop and left it in a safe on the lawn with an apologetic note. Because he's such a blue-collar rube that he doesn't know anything about Apple products and would NEVER realize the journalistic and monetary value of what he had in his hands, right?

It doesn't matter whether Hogan or the bartender had it. The damage was done as soon as Gray left without it.

@ Mike

Actually, ... you are the ignorant one.

The only theft truly going on in this case is what all the lawyers are going to do with it. Apple needs to just back off and realizes mistakes happen, and free press can be a good thing.

The blow back from this can now only hurt them, as pointed out by Jon Stewart.

Perhaps we are all forgetting one of the most important litigation tools and game changers of all time! Expressed in humanity and all life forms with nervous systems: * Finders Keepers Losers Weepers *

I'm just amazed at how many posters on here have absolutely no sense of right and wrong, good or evil, basic common sense and decency. I guess no one teaches that to their children any more, so they can just wander through life with no sense that anything they do might be wrong, or have consequences, etc. Just amazing.

i would of just black mailed apple n got a lot of shit out of it. but yea it wack how apple waited to report it stolen.

And now he is going to spend the 5000$ on attorney fees or even more... Isn't it ironic?

Let me see if I've got it.
Are we saying that in California if I find something in bar and I don't give it to the bartender I would be committing a felony? (Felony in Common Law is a serious crime.)
Same if I find the thing in a bus and don't give to the driver?
Now; if the place were a street, do I have to give it to who? Local police, the waittress of the resto close by, the mayor, go to the county precinct?

Ethics aside, have this rule been tested at court before? Specifically, the "reasonable effort" wording.

Chen/Gizmodo knew what he was doing when he was doing it. He said so himself when Adam Carolla interviewed him. Bloggers like to claim they are journalists, but don't want to behave like journalists. Can't have it both ways. Gizmodo + crew relinquished all and any bona fides of true journalists when they pulled that crap at CES walking around and surreptitiously turned off exhibits with that hidden remote.