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Apple vs. the world

May 7, 2010July 30, 2014 Doug Groves Apple, cartoon, editorial comic, Ellen, Gizmodo, HTC, REACT, rgbcomic, uncool1 Comment

Another Friday, another comic. Let’s see if I can keep this up…

Freedom of the press, or license to steal?

April 30, 2010 Doug Groves Apple, editorial, EFF, Electronic Frontier Foundation, First Amendment, Gizmodo, REACT6 Comments

By now, everybody knows the Gizmodo – iPhone 4G fiasco inside and out. It’s broken beyond the tech world to the mainstream, from the New York Times coming out in favour of Gizmodo’s journalistic rights to Jon Stewart offering an amusing but watered down spanking to Apple for becoming the “1984” it once rallied against. Of course, I’d argue that Apple is more “Brave New World” than “1984”, but that’s another story… What’s got my editorial undies all bunched is how since Gizmodo invoked the journalistic shield law as a…

The long and winding tale of a blogger, a lost prototype and the cops who came a-knocking

April 28, 2010July 30, 2014 Doug Groves Apple, California, cartoon, editorial, editorial comic, Gizmodo, iPhone 4G, Jason Chen, legal, REACT, rgbcomic3 Comments

Except for a brief roundtable discussion which we published last week, we largely steered clear of the whole Gizmodo iPhone 4G leak, but recent events make it interesting to look at in a different light. This past Friday night, California’s Rapid Enforcement Allied Computer Team (REACT) police, operating under a search warrant, busted down Gizmodo editor Jason Chen’s front door home while he was out, and confiscated all his computer equipment. To get you caught up on the story, here’s the Cliff Notes version of events leading up to it: