{"id":3467,"date":"2010-04-20T07:50:37","date_gmt":"2010-04-20T11:50:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/?p=3467"},"modified":"2010-04-20T07:50:37","modified_gmt":"2010-04-20T11:50:37","slug":"apple-officially-asks-for-their-missing-iphone-back","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/2010\/04\/20\/apple-officially-asks-for-their-missing-iphone-back\/","title":{"rendered":"Apple officially asks for their missing iPhone back"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I guess <em>Gizmodo<\/em> did get their hands on something genuine, as Apple has sent a letter formally asking for the device <a href=\"http:\/\/www.guardian.co.uk\/media\/pda\/2010\/apr\/20\/iphone-gizmodo\" target=\"_blank\">to be returned to them<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>Gizmodo says it has now received a letter from Apple&#8217;s senior vice president and general counsel Bruce Sewell:<\/p>\n<p><em>&#8220;It has come to our attention that Gizmodo is currently in possession of a device that belongs to Apple. This letter constitutes a formal request that you return the device to Apple. Please let us know where to pick up the unit.&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n<p><p>Gizmodo says the iPhone 4G\/iPhone HD &mdash; take your pick &mdash; was left in a German beer garden (we like those details) called <em>Gourmet Haus Staudt<\/em> in Redwood. Speculate what you will about this: how convenient this kind of intense interest is for Apple, whether this is a fake, the various ways in which infamously secretive Apple might retaliate against the hapless prototype phone-loser Gray Powell &mdash; or, as the well-connected John Gruber says, why Gizmodo paid $5,000 for the phone which was stolen from Apple.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Given that almost any device Apple introduces is greeted with hosannas and hallelujahs from the fanboy crowd, it does seem unlikely that this is a deliberate attempt by Apple to create or increase public interest in their next iPhone release.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I guess Gizmodo did get their hands on something genuine, as Apple has sent a letter formally asking for the device to be returned to them: Gizmodo says it has now received a letter from Apple&#8217;s senior vice president and general counsel Bruce Sewell: &#8220;It has come to our attention that Gizmodo is currently in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[160,109,27],"class_list":["post-3467","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technology","tag-apple","tag-computers","tag-iphone"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2hpV6-TV","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3467","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3467"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3467\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3468,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3467\/revisions\/3468"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3467"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3467"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3467"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}