Note to all: if you find an expensive looking device in a bar that looks like it might be a new iPhone...look, feel, admire and maaaaaybe take a photo for posterity. Then, turn it into someone at the bar and leave! Otherwise, cops be breaking down your door and confiscating your shit. Oh and arresting you. This is the power of Apple. Be afraid...

http://abcnews.go.com/Technology/cops-seize-gizmodo-editors-computer-iphone-leak/story?id=10481064

or...

if you find something you know belongs to someone else, don't sell it. That shit's against the law.

Also, if you know something does not belong to someone selling something, don't buy it. That shit's against the law too.

Just some advice.

What is it about Apple which makes people stupid the moment they start talking about them, both good or bad?

I.E. It doesn't matter whether you're positive towards them or negative, it just seems that they gather a lot of dumb from either direction.

those are great points 

BUT theres no reason why Apple (or any other corporation) can get in to ur house and do all that shit 

one of the reasons why i hate apple (but kinda love there products)

That's probably why the police are doing it, rather than Apple.

Chen is not the first person to have his computer equipment seized as part of a criminal investigation. I'm sure they'll be returned to him if they turn out to contain no evidence related to the crime(s).

Go check out the story.

The man who found the phone called Apple.  He attempted to return it.  Apple gave him the finger.  If you drop a $10 bill and I try to return it to you only to get a "lol I don't know what you're talking about" then I'm going to keep it.  If you don't want to take the time to check your pockets then that's your problem.  I've already done my part in good faith by making a solid attempt to return it.

As for the folks at Gizmodo, they returned the device upon request.  Apple finally pulled their collective head out of their rear and said "Oh hey, that's ours" to which Gizmodo said, "Sure, we'll be happy to return it."

At this point Apple is just being a dick about the whole thing.

Oh, please. If he had made a good faith attempt to return the phone, do you think he would have handed it in to the bartender instead of taking it home with him? And once home, do you think he would have tried to contact the man who lost it, whose name he admits to knowing due to his Facebook app on the phone?

No, instead he tinkers around with the phone enough to break through its disguise, calls some person in a call centre who knows nothing about missing secret prototypes, and then starts flogging it to tech sites.

As for Gizmodo, of course they returned it. They'd already dimantled it, taken photos, and published the whole mess on the internet, garnering more than enough page hits to recoup their $5000 investment (not a $10 bill, a phone worth $5000 to Gizmodo, and much, much more in damages to Apple). Then they pretend they didn't know it was stolen, as if this guy picked up Apple's next prototype at his local Apple store.

I'm sure they'll get their day in court. And maybe the judge will agree with you and find them not guilty. Right now a judge finds enough suspicious activity to issue a search warrant to police.

If the guy from Gizmodo had found the phone, then there would be no crime. But he bought a phone from someone that they knew did not own it. That's against the law. It's why the other tech sites said no.

This will cost Apple tens of millions of dollars, all because a company committed a crime, and Apple is the party in all this your calling a dick?

Come on.

Personally I feel for the guy who lost the phone. Hes probably the one who deserves the most sympathy here.

I still think apple is over-rated and they suck. No matter what you say it won't change my humble opinion. lol