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You can also consider for a moment that Engadget posted pictures of the same device [http://www.engadget.com/2010/04/17/iphone-4g-is-this-it/], but did not pay any money for it, nor mocked Apple or the engineer in question. I have yet to see the police breaking down the doors at Engadget.

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Does this mean that a police raid was a way of getting back at them for paying the money, and for mocking Apple and the engineer? Now that would be worrying.

It means that the DA thought Gizmodo, and the editors in particular, had broken the law in paying for the iphone prototype. Simple as that.

I did not want to imply that the DA did what they did to get back at Gizmodo, I only meant that the previous comment was not clear and might imply that.

It means that the DA and Jobs are buddies. Simple as that.

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