"Finders keepers" - except that CA law runs to the contrary. If you know who it probably belongs to, you're obligated to return it to its owner.When the lawyers asked for it back, they got it back.
. . . not that the onus was legally on AAPL to ask for it back. The fact that "someone" thought it would be of value to a reporter is basically proof that he was pretty sure who owned it - and made profiting from possession of it into basically theft.Of course that "someone" could claim, with some justice, that the law against "finders keepers" was inspired by Christianity - and claim, with less justice, that that fact made the law an establishment of religion . . .
The original ‘finder’ attempted to return the thing to Apple but they poo-poo’d him. Then he sold it.
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