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It's interesting that the police seem to be going after Gizmodo rather than the original finder.-Dormouse (April 29, 2010, 06:00 PM)
Sorry, but I'm going to have to insist on this point. I really don't think that it is up for debate.For a prototype iPhone that's fully workable and not akin to the used market at all? And has extra features that you won't find in any iPhone? I defy you to find any judge that would value that at less than $100.
Value in a legal sense cannot be determined by a single individual/agent/company. If it were, in any given lawsuit, people could value their time at astronomical amounts. However, this doesn't happen, and the courts do not recognize those sorts of claims.
Like I mentioned above, just because you value something, doesn't mean that it actually has that value in the broad sense of the term.-Renegade (April 29, 2010, 09:19 AM)
If I leave something anywhere, and someone sells it, I would feel violated.-wraith808 (April 28, 2010, 07:16 PM)
I agree. But I think this is a little bit different.
For instance, if you lost something and the person who found it tried to return it to you--and you refused to take it back--would that change your opinion about them selling it?-Deozaan (April 28, 2010, 07:55 PM)
This is being used as a reasoning in a lot of posts in this thread... so reference? And even so- why call tech support? Why not call apple and ask for the person? Even after the phone was wiped, he knew the person's name... else why did it appear in the article?-wraith808 (April 29, 2010, 08:35 AM)
I'm not sure that he knew the person's name. All of this came out well after the fact. The articles had the benefit of hindsight. For the specific details, I have not seen anything in depth to support that he knew or did not know the name of the engineer that lost the phone. If anyone has seen that, it would be nice if they could post a link.
But to be honest, I seriously doubt that most people know how to get somebody's name out of a phone. Even if it wasn't wiped quickly, and he had time to check, I don't know that he would have been able to find the guys name.-Renegade (April 29, 2010, 09:19 AM)
During that time, he played with it. It seemed like a normal iPhone. "I thought it was just an iPhone 3GS," he told me in a telephone interview. "It just looked like one. I tried the camera, but it crashed three times." The iPhone didn't seem to have any special features, just two bar codes stuck on its back: 8800601pex1 and N90_DVT_GE4X_0493. Next to the volume keys there was another sticker: iPhone SWE-L200221. Apart from that, just six pages of applications. One of them was Facebook. And there, on the Facebook screen, was the Apple engineer, Gray Powell.
If I leave something anywhere, and someone sells it, I would feel violated.-wraith808 (April 28, 2010, 07:16 PM)
I agree. But I think this is a little bit different.
For instance, if you lost something and the person who found it tried to return it to you--and you refused to take it back--would that change your opinion about them selling it?-Deozaan (April 28, 2010, 07:55 PM)
- The person tries to RETURN THE IPHONE TO APPLE
- Apple ignores all (several) attempts to return the phone
-Renegade (April 28, 2010, 06:04 AM)
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As for the engineer, he definitely deserves to get fired. Of all places to bring such a device the pub was not one of them! I bet he just wanted to show it off.-Eóin (April 27, 2010, 12:21 PM)
the phone was accidentally left at a bar in Redwood City, Calif., last month by an Apple software engineer
that's the unbelievable part-cmpm (April 27, 2010, 11:26 AM)
What Apple are essentially doing is turning computers and related gadgets into consumer items like cd players, TVs etc which "just work". You cannot really do that without controlling the hardware and the software and without severely limiting consumer options. Earlier generations (well, at least it will be earlier generations to a lot of people here) of geeks had to spend their time with soldering irons or in garages with oil and spanners.
The Microsoft stage succeeded in separating OS from hardware in computers and thereby provided the incentive and impetus for computers to get very cheap. Apple have now been able to take advantage of the cheapness by giving a lot of people what they think they want. Designer labels are the order of the day, and that is what Apple have created.-Dormouse (April 26, 2010, 06:58 PM)
I'm on my 30 day trial, and this 'feature' may be a deal breaker. The iPhone app for SugarSync limits the size of the files you can view. This is potentially a deal breaker since one of my purposes of investing in this or DropBox was to view documents on the road. DropBox had no problem displaying the same document. I don't see why SugarSync would limit their iPhone app in the size of the document that you can view. (For the record, it was an rpg book- it was 40.3 MB, and they are regularly that size). If this limit is a hard one that can't be changed (or that you're not open to changing), then as much as I like SugarSync's features, if it can't handle my workflow, then I can't use it...
Thoughts?
Re: iPhone Document Size Limit
Posted on 4/25/2010 7:41 PM
We put some final limit based on empirical data. It's possible that more recent versions of the iPhone system are more stable and with more free memory available for apps. We will make a change int he next release to just give you a warning and you will be on your own. Thanks for the feedback.
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This was a great review/comparison. A couple of things I'd like to clarify:
- SugarSync may only support 2 desktops, but DropBox explicitly supports as many as you'd like.
- DropBox does versioning. If make a change to one of those work files in the "briefcase", I can fall back to yesterday's version, for example. I don't know if SugarSync offers this.
-CWuestefeld (April 22, 2010, 11:38 AM)
What makes me most wary of this market is the sheer number of alternatives. Hard to see that they will all survive long-term, so I'd hate to get dependent on something that might go. Even the apparently successful ones may not be very profitable, so it is hard to predict which ones will keep going.-Dormouse (April 22, 2010, 07:03 AM)
