Apple should make a whole ad campaign around this story! The iPod in question was found in the Thames and contained evidence about a shooting by the members of a gang of thieves.
Note to OP: An iPod is NOT an iPad.
Plus the iPad was merely the container a SIM card was in. Other than that the iPad was irrelevant. Apple has nothing to brag about here.
Maybe reading an article ought to be a prerequisite for citing it & starting a thread about it?
Yeah yeah, I got too excited. I’ll do better in the future.
In your defense, the article title was click-bait garbage unworthy of the BBC. And the article was pretty impenetrable to anyone not steeped in the history of infamous UK capers.
The larking of mud on the Thames is one of the interesting rabbit holes Facebook likes to send me down.
I follow Lara Maiklem for all my mudlarking news.
Did they also have bushy eyebrows?
Yep, I’m old.
But if the headline had just said a SIM card was found in the Thames, wouldn’t readers wonder how it’d be still functioning usefully?
What do you mean “functioning usefully?”
A sim card is like a mini USB stick. All it is is some passive memory. Some things, like the serial number, are burned into the memory at the factory. Other than that it’s just a very small capacity equivalent to a solid state disk drive.
Like a USB stick, it can sit there for decades (centuries?) inertly before it starts to lose its data.
The cops sure didn’t turn on the muddy iPad to extract the data. They pulled out the SIM, washed it off, and stuck it in a SIM reader. And once power was supplied to it, the data could be read off it.
The only thing the iPad did was be a large enough, and interesting-looking enough, box for somebody to notice and bother picking up out of the mud. SIM cards being roughly the size of a fingernail, it’s a racing certainty as the Brits might say, that it would never have been noticed in the mud if it had been separated from the iPad.
Note to future badguys: Remove and dispose of SIM cards separately from devices.