Apple Heist Empties Store in Just 31 Seconds
The commentary makes it seem like ESPN meets a game show.
In Miami, people steal laptops and they just shrug it off, turn the alarms off, and go back to work. Saw two get stolen while waiting for a repair a few months ago. Eventually they called a guard to write it up.
The article reads like a viral ad:
The magsafe cords detached instantly, offering no resistance and leaving power sockets undamaged.
Finally, the stiff unibody shells means that the villains could grab the notebooks one handed from a corner with no flexing, and no risk to the internal circuitry, the tough aluminum bodies resisting the jostling clanks inside the sacks.
Aren't laptops in stores usually attached with more than just power cords?
"Empties store"? I suspect the writer has never worked in retail electronics or even bought anything from an Apple store. Display models are a fraction of merchandise on-hand.
iPhone developers are getting pretty desperate these days. :)
Funny that this other heist came up on rolfe-winlker's blog. Quite a contrast.
heh, reminds me of the nvidia prototype video device thing they demonstrated at the GSMA Mobile World Congress in Barcelona earlier this year. It had a power cord and a tv cord attached and nothing else. It was kinda around the corner from where the nvidia employees were and there was nobody around. I stood opposite thinking how easy it would be to grab and run... :-P
Obviously I didn't, but it would have been interesting to own a prototype handheld video thingy. (they were using it to demonstrate their embedded gpu for smartphones, it was coool)
Holy crap, I used to work at that store!
Flagged. This is YouTube video material, it's not even interesting in any way other than fluff.
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