The Conversation 12: The Gizmodo/iPhone Thing | via 5 by 5
Great audio interview by Dan Benjamin of John Gruber and Andy Ihnatko about the whole Gizmodo/”found” iPhone thing. Includes several references to Coen brothers films and how much this whole story sounds like something the Coen brothers might have written.
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One more note, from an earlier post on Daring Fireball:
Jeff Bercovici called the owner of Gourmet Haus Staudt:
What [the “finders” of the phone] never did, however, was notify anyone who worked at the bar, according to its owner, Volcker Staudt. That would have been the simplest way to get the phone back to the Apple employee who lost it, who “called constantly trying to retrieve it” in the days afterward, recalls Volcker. “The guy was pretty hectic about it.”
Theft.
I agree. Stolen goods, sold for profit, no effort made to find the real owner.
Coen Brothers indeed.