“‘We did request and the court granted our request to withdraw the search warrant,’ Chief Deputy District Attorney Steve Wagstaffe told Macworld. ‘The reason we’ve done this is that we arrived at an agreement with Tom Nolan, the attorney for Mr. Chen, that if we would agree to withdraw the warrant, they would agree to voluntarily have all information from the computer—which is in the hands of the special master now—provided to the REACT [Rapid Enforcement Allied Computer Team] detectives so it could be viewed,'” Moren reports.
Moren reports, “The withdrawn search warrant does not mean that investigation is at an end. If nothing else, feelings about the incident clearly still run high. Jobs took pot shots at Gizmodo at Friday’s press conference, even saying at one point, ‘You know, sometimes Web sites buy stolen prototypes and put them on the Web. And we don’t like that.'”
Full article here.
MacDailyNews Take: Read every Gizmodo article related to Apple from April 19, 2010 onward with several billion grains of salt. We wonder if Gizmodo realizes that they forfeited any semblance of objectivity when it comes to the world’s largest technology firm on the day they published their iPhone 4 leak? That probably was not a good move for a “gadget blog,” where nearly every article is Apple-related in some way. Gizmodo’s motives now must always be questioned: Are they dumping on Apple because they feel persecuted? Are they really loving an Apple’s competitor’s product or just trying to get some revenge? Never-ending questions abound. That’s why we haven’t been covering articles from Gizmodo: We just don’t trust their opinions or reporting anymore. It’s as simple as that.
In return for his “cooperation with the investigation”…?
Nail ’em to the wall, Apple!
A real journalist would have gone to jail rather that out their sources.
I’ve already removed Gizmodo’s bookmark from my browser awhile now. It’s blatantly obvious that they have an ax to grind with Apple and is biased to the extreme.
Gizmodo is dead to me.
And one more thing. I recommend others do the same as well.
Your posit assumes that Gizmodo and Gawker are real journalistic organizations. I beg to differ. They would sell their souls to anyone for the right price. There are journalists, for whom I generally do not hold in high esteem, and then there’s scum. Gizmodo and Gawker should be categorized in the latter category. Please don’t confuse the two.
I’ve been thinking of dumping Gizmodo since they’ve started bashing Apple as a result of the investigation. Is there a competing gadget blog you would recommend?
Who cares.
I got banned by none other than Jason Chen for taking a piss out of him in every thread I could.
I haven’t gone back. As Wired used to say: Tired.
Bu-bye Giz.
@mac4life:
I would also, but reading the crap gizmodo posts anymore… Is kinda funny.
Is funny to me to see such a hatred for apple from them.
“Are they dumping on Apple because they feel persecuted?”
Ya think?
Yeah; being on the verge of being criminally prosecuted leads to that… you know… *persecuted* feeling.
I’m not defending the guy; I think he was naïve for thinking he could pay to take possession of something he knew or should have known who the rightful owner was. And then writing all about it and pushing Apple’s buttons was *such* a dumb move.
Still, it is sorta conjecturing about the obvious to think he’s gonna think Apple’s a big ol’ poopy-head for filing a criminal complaint against him.
In Gizmodo’s case, my personal choice is the Joe Stalin school of management fix for thief’s, a 9 mm applied to the back of the head at least twice.
As a show of good will Apple has offered to supply their entire staff with a year’s supply of Pampers. Because that group is nothing but a bunch of crybabies.
@Me In LA
That wuss Chen banned 2 of my accounts for criticizing Gizmodo over their Apple coverage. Of course they have the nerve to rant about Apple pulling iPhone 4 discussions as censorship, yet they can’t take any heat themselves and do the same thing.
God forbid I ever meet that guy in person.
Journalist also tend not to deal in stolen property. This could all have been avoided if Gizmodo had advise the original recipients of the prototype to just return it to Apple. Even if they had purchased it like they did they could have returned the unit to Apple and sat on the story until they got the Ok from Apple rather than trying to extort Jobs and Apple for more access. Real journalist don’t approach thongs that way.
@ Macromancer,
Yup. He’s a wuss. I think I might start a FB page to hate on Giz and Chen. I think I could get a lot of followers.
MDN’s take should apply to themselves. MDN is an Apple sycophant without a hint of objectivity supporting without fact checking every utterance of their hero Steve Jobs.
Gizmodo has become GoogleModo… credibility, what credibility? Did they think no-one would notice, or realise why?
@Me In La
do it. I think it’s time to give those babies at giz a taste of their own medicine.
Why?
Hit gaymodo hard once and for all. Bunch of Apple haters and whinng kids.
How can ya trust crooks?
@ Justification
Duh, MDN stands for MacDailyNews. Can it get any clearer than that?
@justification,
Chen, quit trying to take the spotlight off of yourself you big baby. This is all about you and your sour grapes at getting caught with your hand in the cookie jar (by your own screaming admission, I might add, you bonehead.)
somone keeps spamming Giz topics with “Chen is a SNITCH” lol
Twitter anyone? #GizmodoIsIrrelevant