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How Arrington Would Have Handled The Stolen iPhone Story

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Re: How Arrington Would Have Handled The Stolen iPhone Story

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Post by dannyr »

bbuffone wrote: post #7

If I had found the iphone... I would have walked around SFO asking people if they lost an iPhone prototype. Starting on Market Street and working my way down to San Jose. Being that the iPhone is very popular, lots of people would have wanted to see it so... I would have charged them $5 no wait... $20 each to hang out with the iphone for 1 minute, and $50 each for a Polariod of them and the Prototype. I would have co…

Or you could just have gone to Apple's HQ.

Re: How Arrington Would Have Handled The Stolen iPhone Story

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Post by jrockway »

I agree that paying for the phone is the one sticky point here. If no money changed hands, this would be a much more solid case to enforce bloggers' and journalists' rights. The money taints things... but I still think this could go either way.

(I would argue that the person that found the phone was an employee that discovered the phone in his normal course of work. Then the money is for "being at work" rather than "selling us stolen goods". It's like escort services -- you pay for the escort service; the sex afterwards is free. Or something.)

Re: How Arrington Would Have Handled The Stolen iPhone Story

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Post by bdr »

jrockway wrote: post #10
iamdave wrote: post #4

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Thank you for the clarification on this. I stand by my point that Arrington isn't exactly the most scrupulous tech blogger out there either, and this article just reeks of self-importance and conceit.

this article just reeks of self-importance and conceit Whoa, TechCrunch is a blog ?

You're putting us all down. Blogging is no more inherently self-important than speaking at all.

Re: How Arrington Would Have Handled The Stolen iPhone Story

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Post by bbuffone »

dannyr wrote: post #11
bbuffone wrote: post #7

If I had found the iphone... I would have walked around SFO asking people if they lost an iPhone prototype. Starting on Market Street and working my way down to San Jose. Being that the iPhone is very popular, lots of people would have wanted to see it so... I would have charged them $5 no wait... $20 each to hang out with the iphone for 1 minute, and $50 each for a Polariod of them and the Prototype. I would have co…

Or you could just have gone to Apple's HQ.

Nah... I like my "Fanboys" (http://www.imdb.com/find?s=all&q=Fanboys) style adventure better. Eventually my pattern would have taken me their.

Re: How Arrington Would Have Handled The Stolen iPhone Story

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Post by jrockway »

bdr wrote: post #13
jrockway wrote: post #10

Earlier quoted context omitted.

this article just reeks of self-importance and conceit Whoa, TechCrunch is a blog ?

You're putting us all down. Blogging is no more inherently self-important than speaking at all.

I find blogs to be more self-aggrandizing than traditional opinion columns. But indeed, I agree that it is unfair to pin general human traits on blogs.

Oh, and if I sound like I'm on a high horse... I would do the same thing that Arringtion does, if only somebody cared what I thought about anything ;)

Re: How Arrington Would Have Handled The Stolen iPhone Story

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Post by kgrin »

mrduncan wrote: post #17

In case some weren't aware, Arrington is a Stanford Law School graduate and was previously was a lawyer at Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati. http://www.crunchbase.com/person/michael-arrington

Well, sure, but he practiced as a corp/finance lawyer, not a criminal or IP attorney (which seem to be the relevant facets here). And in the OP he says, specifically, "I’m not going to go into the legal issues around this because I’m just not qualified."
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