Oh Apple. How do I love you. Let me count the ways. Patent litigation war. Photoshopping pics of Samsung's Galaxy Tab in EU court filings to make it appear the same in aspect ratio/size and user interface as the iPad2.
And now impersonation of police officers. You lovable, hugable, innocents you. Please continue to turn out the latest shiny consumer gadgets for me to drool over while I ignore your chicanery.
http://blogs.sfweekly.com/thesnitch/2011/09/iphone_5_apple_police.php
http://blogs.sfweekly.com/thesnitch/2011/09/lost_iphone_5_apple.php
Interesting snippets from both articles below:
Quote:
The bizarre saga involving a lost prototype of the iPhone 5 has taken another interesting turn. Contradicting past statements that no records exist of police involvement in the search for the lost prototype, San Francisco Police Department spokesman Lt. Troy Dangerfield now tells SF Weekly that "three or four" SFPD officers accompanied two Apple security officials in an unusual search of a Bernal Heights man's home.
In an interview with SF Weekly last night, Calderón told us that six badge-wearing visitors came to his home in July to inquire about the phone. Calderón said none of them acknowledged being employed by Apple, and one of them offered him $300, and a promise that the owner of the phone would not press charges, if he would return the device.
The visitors also allegedly threatened him and his family, asking questions about their immigration status. "One of the officers is like, 'Is everyone in this house an American citizen?' They said we were all going to get into trouble," Calderón said.
One of the officers left a phone number with him, which SF Weekly traced to Anthony Colon, an investigator employed at Apple, who declined to comment when we reached him.
However, [Calderon] said he was under the impression that they were all police, since they were part of the group outside that identified themselves as SFPD officials. The two who entered the house did not disclose that they were private security officers, according to Calderón.
"When they came to my house, they said they were SFPD," Calderón said. "I thought they were SFPD. That's why I let them in." He said he would not have permitted the search if he had been aware the two people conducting it were not actually police officers.
At the least, the incident is sure to raise questions about the propriety of multiple SFPD officers helping private detectives conduct a search -- which was never properly recorded, per standard police operating procedure -- of somebody's home.
It is also unclear why records of SFPD officers' involvement did not emerge until now. Yesterday SFPD spokesman Officer Albie Esparza said that "we don't have any record of such an investigation going on at this point."
And now impersonation of police officers. You lovable, hugable, innocents you. Please continue to turn out the latest shiny consumer gadgets for me to drool over while I ignore your chicanery.
http://blogs.sfweekly.com/thesnitch/2011/09/iphone_5_apple_police.php
http://blogs.sfweekly.com/thesnitch/2011/09/lost_iphone_5_apple.php
Interesting snippets from both articles below:
Quote:
The bizarre saga involving a lost prototype of the iPhone 5 has taken another interesting turn. Contradicting past statements that no records exist of police involvement in the search for the lost prototype, San Francisco Police Department spokesman Lt. Troy Dangerfield now tells SF Weekly that "three or four" SFPD officers accompanied two Apple security officials in an unusual search of a Bernal Heights man's home.
In an interview with SF Weekly last night, Calderón told us that six badge-wearing visitors came to his home in July to inquire about the phone. Calderón said none of them acknowledged being employed by Apple, and one of them offered him $300, and a promise that the owner of the phone would not press charges, if he would return the device.
The visitors also allegedly threatened him and his family, asking questions about their immigration status. "One of the officers is like, 'Is everyone in this house an American citizen?' They said we were all going to get into trouble," Calderón said.
One of the officers left a phone number with him, which SF Weekly traced to Anthony Colon, an investigator employed at Apple, who declined to comment when we reached him.
However, [Calderon] said he was under the impression that they were all police, since they were part of the group outside that identified themselves as SFPD officials. The two who entered the house did not disclose that they were private security officers, according to Calderón.
"When they came to my house, they said they were SFPD," Calderón said. "I thought they were SFPD. That's why I let them in." He said he would not have permitted the search if he had been aware the two people conducting it were not actually police officers.
At the least, the incident is sure to raise questions about the propriety of multiple SFPD officers helping private detectives conduct a search -- which was never properly recorded, per standard police operating procedure -- of somebody's home.
It is also unclear why records of SFPD officers' involvement did not emerge until now. Yesterday SFPD spokesman Officer Albie Esparza said that "we don't have any record of such an investigation going on at this point."
