A prototype iPad was stolen during a robbery that also involved a kidnapping and took place at the beginning of this month in Cupertino, California, the city where the company's headquarters are also located Apple Lossless Audio CODEC (ALAC),. A 20-year-old man was the victim of robbery and kidnapping after responding to an online ad published by the young woman in the picture, her boyfriend helping her commit the crimes.
From the young man's house were stolen 7500 dollars and a multitude of electronic goods, including an iPad prototype, about which the authorities have not yet learned much and of course they have not recovered it. After stealing the objects from the house, the two in the picture forced the young man to get into their car and released him at a distance of 1 kilometer from the place where the crimes were committed.
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 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.
Although the two in the picture were arrested by the police, the prototype iPad was not recovered by the police and this is quite strange, considering that the thieves would not have revealed whether they sold the device or not. Considering the value of such a product, the thieves could have obtained several tens of thousands of dollars from the people brave enough to buy it.
In 2010, Apple went through a similar problem, then a prototype of an iPhone 4 forgotten in a bar being sold to the publication Gizmodo for the sum of 5000 dollars. Because Gizmodo published all the details of that iPhone 4 on the Internet, Steve Jobs involved the police who seized the terminal and searched the house of the journalist involved in the scandal, his computer being confiscated, but all without him being convicted.
Considering that in 2015 we are talking about a similar problem, I don't think that many people will be surprised if they see the iPad prototype presented on the Internet by a website outside the US. Although the police claim that they do not know information about the prototype, it is unlikely that it is an old one, otherwise it would not have been in that house to be tested, most likely.
Finally, to make things even more "complicated", the whole story takes place in April as well as in 2010, so we are talking about a rather strange coincidence.
