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No, the analogy would be some engineer leaves the blueprints for a nuclear trigger on a barstool, the guy that finds them calls a 1-800 number and speaks to someone who doesn't know what he's talking about, and puts them up for sale to the highest bidder, who then posts the blueprints on the internet

And he'd still not have stolen anything.
So far, everything has been Apple's fault, for # 1, leaving something that is supposed to be secret at some bar, so anyone at all could find it, examine it, and check it out, and # 2, not telling their receptionists or telephone people to be on the look out for anyone trying to return such a device.
You leave your product in some bar, then refuse to accept it back when the finder tries to return it, then your product becomes abandoned property. No one stole anything from you.

Every state has some dollar value they set regarding bad checks, stolen property and so on where there going to be changes in the penalties imposed after conviction.

This new iPhone device will be sold at a price above the current market for such items. The current top end iPhone, the 32GB1 starts at $2992 ~ a backpack full of those suckers is worth as much as most automobiles!

I get this feeling that the device is in that category of things about which the cops get serious!

You leave your product in some bar, then refuse to accept it back when the finder tries to return it, then your product becomes abandoned property. No one stole anything from you.

Friend of mine stopped-by the other day . . . says he found a M1A2 Abrams in the woods behind his house. Says he called the Pentagon switchboard, and they just laughed. I bought it from him for five thousand bucks. It is now mine. MINE, I tell you!