San Jose Mercury News:
An iPad “test model” was one of the items taken during a robbery and kidnapping at a Cupertino house earlier this month, according to the Santa Clara County Sheriff’s Office.
The sheriff’s office, which would not disclose more details about the stolen device, but said it has not been recovered.
It’s unclear whether the Apple item was related to an upcoming product release or was an outdated model or test device.
And:
The robbers took the device, along with electronics, prescription drugs and cash valued at $7,500, from a Cupertino home during an incident in which a 20-year-old man was kidnapped and robbed after answering a woman’s online advertisement.
Bizarre.
Update: Rereading the iMore post, I get the sense this was old kit, more a part of a random robbery than a targeted theft.
[Via iMore]
I knew this sounded familiar, http://www.sfgate.com/crime/article/East-Bay-couple-accused-of-luring-victims-with-6222417.php
Hmm, industrial espionage? Samsung, Microsoft, where were you the night of…
Now it makes sense why the guy took 5 days to report the issue… embarrassment.
Understandably. If you’re going to get rolled by a hooker, have some pride and at least pick one that’s hot!
What the actual f***?
A man was kidnapped, and the point of concern is the iPad?
Your getting “the sense this was old kit” is not even in the same galaxy as the proper human response. Imagine you or your wife or your kid being the victim, and a news channel or blog you follow focuses on a fancy/shiny object that was stolen instead of the anguish/fear/stress that the victim went through.
Get your head out of Apple’s @$$ once in a while. Take a step back and reevaluate your re-quoting a news article, or your response to it. Try to see if your thoughts are even in the vicinity of what actually and truly matter.
Ask yourself: “Am I thinking correctly? Am I being rational?”