This has been a hot button for a little while now, but if you still haven’t heard, here is a synopses of the prototype iPhone shenanigan…

• Employee leaves new iPhone at a bar
• Dudes finds said iPhone
• Dude calls Apple, they say they don’t know what he’s talking about
• Dude decides to make a buck off it, since he can’t really return it
• Gizmodo.com buys said iPhone for $5K
• Apple flips out, demands return of iPhone
• Search warrent issued and Gizmodo.com reviewer gets his door busted in
• Dude who found the iPhone at the bar also gets his place raided by the tech police

Click through to read my response and watch John Stewart’s reaction as well.

I, for one, think that Apple is going way too far. Sure, they like to have big press releases over the new products that they made, and they are huge in innovation. But attacking their customers for giving them even more press is ridiculous. Did the police really have to bust down the reviewer’s door? It kinda makes me queezy, finally seeing the dark side of the force. Intellectual property is important, but not so important that you become Big Brother, and alienate your customer base. Sheesh.

Watch the first ~8 minutes of this episode to have Jon Stewart fill you in on the details better than I ever could. I can’t embed the video on this page, so here’s a direct link to the video.

Feel free to leave your opinion in the comments.

iPhone image from this image pack

This entry was posted by Kurtis Holsapple on Thursday, April 29th, 2010 at 11:52 am and is filed under Code Logic. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. You can leave a response, or trackback from your own site.

Tags: Apple, big brother, iphone