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Originally Posted by Flames0910
Should have compared it to somebody stealing a NASA Space Shuttle IMO. And they didn't just drive it around for a bit and return it. They ripped it apart, took a look at the engine and pasted pictures all over the Internet.
This phone leaking is HUGE for Apple, and not in a good way. Now Microsoft, Google, Samsung, Nokia, etc., get a head start on reverse-engineering it as well as positioning their own products to be competitive.
It's very hard to put a dollar figure on the amount of money Apple will lose to this though because it depends on how well Microsoft, Google and friends take advantage of this bit of good fortune.
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Companies are responsible for protecting their own trade secrets. The best way to do that is not leave prototypes behind in a bar. The police should not be spending the public's money investigating the improper handling of a phone that was LOST.
If a NASA engineer got drunk and took the space shuttle out for a spin, only to abandon it outside a bar, then yeah, I don't think people who opened up the hood and took pictures should be charged with a crime.