[stephenr]

> I believe it's their PR plan.

... What exactly do you think they planned? The photos show a person's name on an email from an airline.

Are you suggesting they planted a fake phone on the side of a road, with a fake email from the airline about baggage for said airline open on the screen, and then had a hired stooge "find" the phone, and then either (a) make a false claim to the NTSB or (b) have a second stooge impersonate an NTSB officer on camera....?

Or perhaps it's more nefarious than that. Apple bribed a bunch of Boeing workers to be shit at their jobs for the last 24 months with the hopes that a panel would fail eventually; Concurrently they hired dozens upon dozens of stooges to take flights on routes using the previously-hobbled Boeing's, each of them carrying an iPhone in every pocket they have, so that when the inevitable happens they can make it rain iPhones, such that eventually some will land somewhere soft enough to survive the fall, and there will be enough of them that people will just find them on their morning walk...

Maybe the Android owners all got eaten by their respective polar bears so there isn't a story to push?

[hobs]

It's simple, and Apple doesn't plan the accident, they just help the story move when their brand is involved - I mentioned it in another thread, but when that kind of stuff happened (at least in 2008) they got moved into a special queue and instead of T2/Customer Care they would get moved to the CCT2 who would often escalate to executive service peeps.

Apple is actually pretty good at this stuff.

[dannyw]

Not sure why you're being downvoted, but this is absolutely common corporate PR 101 practice.

They follow social media, reddit, etc all the time, and if there's an organic story that's good for their brand, they forward it to friendly journalists, provide context on background, etc.

If it's bad for their brand, they search all their internal systems using whatever information they can find and/or correlate, escalate it, and deal with it behind the scenes.

[hobs]

I say this from direct corporate experience working directly with Apple, so I don't mind the downvotes, just people who have no idea what's going on.

[omeid2]

If you ever think downvotes means anything, remember that any criticism of pornography or a simple fact of saying "C is unsafe" gets downvoted into oblivion here.

[astrange]

This seems like a weird place to criticize pornography.

I have noticed that whenever I post truly unknown correct things I've learned at work that I get paid for knowing, I'm more likely to get voted to -2ish or even have people reply to say they don't believe me.

Though, if I reply to them and just restate the same thing in different words, that one always gets upvoted.

So I think people just like to see an argument.

[hackideiomat]

C is unsafe

[jackyard86]

Same are these devices function, but Apple is paying for those who share their stories.

[stephenr]

You think he found the phone, and before doing anything he called Apple who said "Ok yeah, contact the NTSB, then take some selfies with it and post them on the internet. Once you do we'll make it rain money bruh."

[c0nducktr]

They're trolling you dude. Their first comment was just a joke, but people bought in, and now you're being trolled, like in the original sense.

[jackyard86]

Well, I agree that I'm really bad at arguing, but one thing for sure, it's not a trolling.