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Jon Stewart: Apple’s being ‘appholes’ over lost iPhone

Categories: Apple, iOS / iPhone OS, iPhone
By: , IntoMobile
Thursday, April 29th, 2010 at 11:57 AM


You know the next iPhone is a big story when it catches the attention of Jon Stewart.

During his popular show on Comedy Central, the host ripped into Apple’s reactions to the lost iPhone prototype. Specifically, he called out the company for supposedly initiating the police investigation that led to a whole lot of drama including the cops raiding a blogger’s house and Apple’s private security reportedly trying to search a man’s house.

“Apple, you guys were the rebels, man, the underdogs. People believed in you. But, now, are you becoming the man?” Stewart said. “It wasn’t supposed to be this way. Microsoft was supposed to be the evil one. But now, you guys are busting down doors in Palo Alto while Commandant Gates is ridding the world of mosquitoes!”

You can watch the clip in its entirety below and it’s something good to view. This whole issue is far more complicated than it’s being made out to be, though and I’m having trouble trying to pick a clear winner. The scumbag who “found” the iPhone was definitely looking to make a quick buck and if Apple considered the phone to be stolen, then there’s nothing wrong with law enforcement carrying out a criminal investigation to determine if any laws have been broken. The weird stuff is how the police carried out the raid and how Apple’s private security team tried to allegedly flex its muscles outside of Apple’s campus.

As for the battle between Steve Jobs and Bill Gates, I think it’s clear who won: Jobs will go down as one of the greatest tech inventors of all time while Gates’ philanthropic achievements will make him one of the greatest men of all time.

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About The Author

Marin Perez

Marin Perez has torture tested cell phones and smartphones for industry leaders like CNET and InformationWeek. He remembers when 4G was just a screen on PowerPoint presentations and is fascinated with the amount of innovation out there. Marin has spent a lot of time with BlackBerry and Android but he finally broke down a bought an iPhone to see what all the hype's about. He also has too many tablets.

  • RobertJenning

    Not quite. I mean mostly common sense on your part, but Apple understood their engineer lost the phone in a bar.

    The rationalization that a lost phone is ‘stolen’ because it wasn’t returned, even in light of the fact, that Apple initially refused to accept the return of the device – and in light of the fact, that Apple has the device now…that’s a pretty steep whopper to accept. I think the plain-sense version of this is Apple is mad about the Gizmodo story.

    Unfortunately for Apple, journalists can report on a found device. They are not under NDA, nor did they conduct some kind of NDA-busting hunt here…the found device, was quite by happenstance, and the journalist who got the story, picked at random by the guy who found the device.

    Apple is just being Apple – the quinessential ‘apphole’ in the industry that they are.

  • marin

    Fair enough, but you’re presupposing that Giz’s version of the story (which not-so-coincidentally shields them from legal entanglements) is the truth. Apple says otherwise. Police investigate and decide. Don’t have a problem with that general line. The Apple security team and the search are a bit more troublesome.

  • Barbarian Crypto

    “I think it’s clear who won: Jobs will go down as one of the greatest tech inventors of all time”

    What inventor. he’s a front guy who probably needs a teenager’s help to “format his computer”.

  • Marin Perez

    Fair point. Probably more of a great tech marketer and visionary.