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Originally Posted by Barnes
You're completely missing the point.
Apple sends out take down notices all the time for things in which they have no legal standing to actually try and have taken down.
They have not done that in this case. But they have in the cases I mentioned above. Explain why.
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I think the why is that the online community would very quickly mock them and it would have the potential to blow up on them.
They trusted a guy and through his own ineptitude he screwed up. That misplaced trust is on them.
To ask nicely for it back, however, is an acceptable response. You gotta know their PR department got involved with this immediately and is trying to manage the process so as to 1) limit/control as much as possible and 2) make sure that it doesn't blow up anymore than it already has. Sending out take down notices in a case like this (lost at a bar) really makes Apple look like the bad guy very quickly. I imagine gizmodo will return it anyway, they've had their fun. And has been mentioned previously, obviously they would prefer attending Apple events to not attending.