Apple becomes an Apphole
Here’s to Apple.
A wonderful company that continues to show innovation and a spark for the future.
A company that provides a concrete business model that doesn’t just encourage customer retention, it makes it mandatory.
A company that after screwing up and taking heat from the media, goes one step further and encourages police to actually break into a Gizmodo editor’s house with a search and seizure warrant in an effort to make sure nothing important was leeched off of the already returned iPhone 4.x.
…ladies and gentlemen, that would be a company that might not have my business for very long.
Straight from Gizmodo:
Police Seize Jason Chen’s Computers
Last Friday night, California’s Rapid Enforcement Allied Computer Team entered1 editor Jason Chen’s2 home without him present, seizing four computers and two servers. They did so using a warrant by Judge of Superior Court of San Mateo. According to Gaby Darbyshire, COO of Gawker Media LLC, the search warrant to remove these computers was invalid under section 1524(g) of the California Penal Code3.
Dude. Mr Jobs. You’re going to leak hardware. It happens. The guys had already given the hardware back too. But noooo, big bad Apple with a new set of balls gets to push a police button on the media. This is what I call retarded. Why? Because if any of us normal citizens tried to encourage the police to mobilize a TASK FORCE looking for dirt because the guy that returned the phone to you lawfully refused to tell you who he got it from?! Hellooooo. You got the phone back, you know who it belonged to. Punish the guy that lost the damn phone in a bar, not the editor of the tech blog that sensationalized your screw-up!
So yeah. Apphole, my next Gadget…will likely be a QUE now 😉
