“‘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Moren reports, “The withdrawn search warrant does not mean that investigation is at an end.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.
Giz is guilty of buying stolen property, and scumbag journalists for publishing material that would hurt Apple, so don’t count on me to be on the jury
Burn ‘im anyway!
Is REACT part of S.H.I.E.L.D.?
I wonder how many of those commenting rushed to the Gizmado site to read the juicy news they had uncovered. None willing to share the guilt but all ready to lay the blame.
This is the same as gossip rags that attract millions that also complain about the very rags they purchase. Only Gizmado was free.
Think about it!!
Well I take it that MDN ranks Gizmodo with Consumer Reports, in not getting in love anytime soon
hey guys if Rob (the msft whore) Enderle and John (Apple’s mouse invention is ridiculous) Dvorak can come around and praise apple for their innovation and great products there’s hope for the rest of the bashers.
Gizmodo totally crossed a line when they knowingly bought a stolen phone.
I don’t care if it was Apple or whoever, I say throw the book at them.