On top of everything, Gizmodo has had the phone for weeks. It was originally stolen in mid March. This week Gizmodo, also had enough time to showcase the phone on various TV shows, knowing all the while the item was genuine, yet not having the time to drop it by Apple's HQ.

The mainstream TV media are treating this all fairly innocently, but I think it's far from. Someone's job should be lost over this, and it isn't that of the Apple employee featured in the photos at Giz.
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Bruno
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