The Country Club Plaza (Kansas City, Mo.) retail store was burglarized early Monday morning by suspects who broke a front door and stole $17,000 worth of products. The store is along Broadway Street in an historic shopping district, where police say the suspects hit about 3:38 a.m. and took eight laptops, three iPods and two iPhones. Police said they are examining surveillance video for clues.
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well i love my new iphoens….there is a spelling mistake on iPhone. [IFO -- Thanks! Corrected!]
Apple will doubtless have the serial numbers of the stolen loot, and can easily track them down when they show up connected to the ‘net.
Once again highlights the despicable situation with Apple where they will NOT put a private piece of stolen Apple gear on any kind of database where it can be tracked and located by law enforcement. I’ve had an iPod stolen, and clearly at some point it would need to be connected to the internet for updating, etc. It is extremely bad use of the technology for Apple not to provide some tracking of this device.
Yikes!! I was just there on Saturday looking at the new iMacs. I love that store and it is the only one within driving distance for me. That’s so sad! Damn thieves!
Jim McMahon-
Are you really STILL that stupid? I guess you took too many hard hits in your day. Perhaps if I would have graduated earlier to give you a little advice, I might have said…
* iPods NEVER connect to the internet. For updating their contents, they connect to your iTunes library directly. Even though iTunes loads some songs over the internet, you can be offline for this procedure. For updating the iPod firmware, or whatever, you run an updater which was previously downloaded by “Software Update”. Again, although the original updater download was done online by some other application, you can be offline during the iPod update. The iPods don’t talk over the network connection AT ALL. Sure, they could be made to, but…
* if everytime I plugged in an iPod, or a laptop, or an iPhone, etc, to a computer, it secretly checked for an internet connection and then (also secretly) somehow delivered its association with me (IP address, etc) to the internet, I would consider that a gross invasion of privacy.
* If your iPod was stolen, it’s your own freaking fault.
Get yourself a better helmet, and stop leaving your iPod where people can grab it.
-Harbaugh
Jim McMahon
You have to think of it like this: Apple is not law enforcement. They cannot commandeer an iPod (or computer) simply because someone said it was stolen. It opens up a whole world of issues. What if a guy gives his girlfriend an iPod then shortly there after breaks up with him. he then goes to Apple and tells them the iPod is stolen. Is Apple now supposed to track that down and take it back? Just because someone SAYS it is stolen, does not mean it is.
This “database” you are talking about for law enforcement is just too much. if someone steals your iPod and you report it to the police they can contact apple to see if it has shown up for repair. If it has, the police can take it from there. And you know law enforcement all over the country have lots of time to track down the hundreds of thousands of stolen iPods.
I feel your pain but it is just one of those things in life where the bad guys win. That is why they steal things. Such is life.