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Left Ipad on plane.
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Exactly, the airline is not responsible for the loss of your personal items due to your own carelessness, nor is your insurance company. Why does everyone think that someone else should pay for their own carelessness? Take responsibility for your actions already. I'm sorry that it happened, but next time learn from your mistakes and turn on the MobileMe feature to find your iPad. Whoever found it and kept it may have wiped it clean by now.
Back in December I realized while on the plane that I did not have my iPhone. Once I landed and got on my laptop, the MobileMe feature locate my iPhone and it was still at home. In the rush to leave the house I just left it in the dock. It was a tough 2 weeks without it, but it was good since I knew it was safe and sound at home.
People think that insurance covers your carelessness because it often legitimately does and unless you explore this avenue you will not know. Car insurance covers accidents you cause, health insurance covers the idiots on Youtube who want to be famous, credit cards often cover accidental loss or damage for a time period. Just a few examples.
Losing an iPad is one thing, but its just a material loss. My bigger fear is having some stranger having unfettered access to my private information. My email accounts (multiple), lots of private documents, photos of my family....almost everything a person would need to steal my identity.
I personally find MobileMe almost worthless but for the ability to remotely wipe my devices.
Agreed. I also find MobileMe worthless except for its ability to sync my bookmarks across two mobile devices and two computers, to remotely lock and display a message on my devices, to locate my devices, and to wipe my devices if necessary.
This is a pretty pointless anecdote to the OP besides making him feel worse about a pretty bad situation. He knows that he should have enabled Find My iPad because he said that about 10 posts ago and this point is obviously ringing in his head and no need to tell him more; also no need to be a jerk and tell him that the person who found it already wiped it by now. You don't know anything about who found it (unless you did and aren't saying anything about it--which I wouldn't put past you because this post makes you sound like that type of person) so unless you have something meaningful to tell the OP about how he should get his property back you should take your anger elsewhere. If he pays for traveler's insurance or any other kind of insurance that covers this then hell yeah they should "pay for his carelessness" because THAT IS THE POINT OF INSURANCE.
OP, I hope you find it. My roommate lost his iPhone and didn't hear from the person who had found it until two days later because the battery had died and the person was working the whole weekend. There are still good people in the world, hopefully one of them has stumbled upon your device.
That and the email are the reasons i use it. I can take or leave idisk.
OP hope you get it returned to you.
Good luck recovering it.
Most people still don't know what it is, so that should give you some hope.
I really do hope you recover it, OP.
Most people still don't know what it is, so that should give you some hope.
I really do hope you recover it, OP.
Ouch. Still, not as bad as the guy (Walt Mossberg, I think?) who chucked out his MBA with a stack of old papers and magazines!!
Dude seriously like you've never made a mistake?
Do you know how tiring traveling can be? Get out of your basement.
A few ideas:
1. Call Continental and ask them where that flight landed next because it's very possible that the iPad never left the plane in Newark but continued onto the next destination. With quick changeovers between flights, the crew often just zips through the cabin picking up the obvious stuff. Can't tell you how many times I look in a seatback pocket and find half-eaten sandwiches and used napkins. While Newark may not have your iPad, Detroit might if that's where the flight went next and Continental Detroit may be waiting on your call.
2. Call AT&T if it's a 3G iPad. Each 3G iPad is assigned a mobile telephone number and they might be able to trace either the carrier signal or the ESN if it is being used by someone else and hitting cell towers for data.
3. Call Apple. Each iPad has a unique serial number and they should be able to see its registration change and which Apple ID has taken it over.
BJ
Really? What do you use to keep your devices synced up with email/calendar/contacts? I've been using MobileMe for this for the last year and it's been great. Their web interface is a dog, but i never use web based email clients.
Google sync....free and works just as well. I have multiple Gmail accounts, including one that is a "Google Apps Professional" account with my business domain. Basically, Gmail=Exchange Server and Google sync keeps email/multiple calendars and all contacts in sync. For free.
It's easy to do. Especially if you put something in the seatback pocket.
For reference, Dell published a survey back in 2008. Ready for this?
Over 12,000 laptops are left in airports a WEEK just in the United States.
That's over 600,000 lost a year.
And 65% are never reclaimed.
For reference, Dell published a survey back in 2008. Ready for this?
Over 12,000 laptops are left in airports a WEEK just in the United States.
That's over 600,000 lost a year.
And 65% are never reclaimed.
The saddest part about this thread is the assertion that it takes a "great person" to do the right thing. It's discouraging that not stealing something is heroic. I still hold out hope that you get it back but IMHO, there is little difference in "finding" something of value and just straight up stealing it.
If we are talking $20 on a crowded NYC street, fair enough, but, this is essentially a guy who left a wallet with $700 sitting by a register at a nice store. All his info is there, even if it is locked, whoever STOLE it, knows without question, that the owner will try to claim it.
Those of you with questionale integrity can try to defend it but in a case like this, there is no defense. This is a $500+ item left in a very specific place that would be very easy to return to the rightful owner. This is not a diamond ring at the bottom of a lake (which I still think you should turn in to the police) it's someone's personal property that you stole from them.
ash =o)
If we are talking $20 on a crowded NYC street, fair enough, but, this is essentially a guy who left a wallet with $700 sitting by a register at a nice store. All his info is there, even if it is locked, whoever STOLE it, knows without question, that the owner will try to claim it.
Those of you with questionale integrity can try to defend it but in a case like this, there is no defense. This is a $500+ item left in a very specific place that would be very easy to return to the rightful owner. This is not a diamond ring at the bottom of a lake (which I still think you should turn in to the police) it's someone's personal property that you stole from them.
ash =o)
It was sarcasm directed against the other poster (since he called MobileMe worthless and then mentioned a valuable purpose). I thought it was obvious since I listed so many uses. I use Google email/cal/contacts as an Exchange account on iPhone and iPad. But for those things that I listed, I would gladly pay double for MobileMe. Not worthless.
From repeated examples, usually with posts I am not involved in, I have found that some of the members of this forum are unable to detect sarcasm. I will use it sparingly from now on.
Examples: "LoJack is worthless, except for its ability to recover my car," "My parents were completely worthless to me, except they conceived and raised me, gave me a college education, bought me a house." That is irony or sarcasm.
Actually, I said "almost worthless but for the ability to remotely wipe my devices."
I find reading comprehension to be in short supply on these forums along with sarcasm detection.
I noticed the almost, but disagreed with it, since MobileMe has other valuable uses, such as those I listed. If what is left after the "almost" is something valuable, then the almost is misused.
I find writing skills in short supply too. For example, you said, "I find reading comprehension to be in short supply...along with sarcasm." This could imply that sarcasm itself is in short supply, and not the point that I made, which was that the ability to detect sarcasm is in short supply. It is not clear whether you agreed with me but made a bad sentence, or whether you disagreed with me, so that it was an assertion to the effect that there is little sarcasm in these forums.