Apple's Find My Friends App Catches Cheating Wife

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Apple's Find My Friends App Catches Cheating Wife

Want to know if your spouse is cheating on you? There's an app for that.

As soon as it was announced, pre-orders for the iPhone 4S were nothing short of insane; shoppers managed to snatch up the entire supply of the phones for every carrier that sells the phone. However, one man is over the moon about the phone for a totally different reason: The iPhone 4S helped him catch his wife.

According to user "ThomasMetz" on the MacRumors forums, he was suspicious about how happy his marriage really was. Basically, he wasn't entirely positive his wife was staying faithful. So, when he bought her an iPhone 4S, he installed the Find My Friends app on her phone without her knowledge. You can see where this is going.

According to ThomasMetz:

"I got my wife a new 4S and loaded up find my friends without her knowing. She told me she was at her friends house in the east village. I've had suspicions about her meeting this guy who live uptown. Lo and behold, Find my Friends has her right there."

After confirming that his wife had lied to him about her location, he snagged the included screenshots and mentioned that he and his lady wouldn't be a couple for much longer:

"Thank you Apple, thank you App Store, thank you all. These beautiful treasure trove of screen shots going to play well when I meet her a$$ at the lawyer's office in a few weeks."

Supposedly, the man's wife doesn't know that her husband knows about her infidelity. Honestly, I'm not sure who's more in the wrong here, since both parties violated each other's trust. I can almost guarantee that ThomasMetz's wife won't let anyone touch her phone from now on, though.

Source: cnet

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[Starke]

Hilariously, this could actually be in violation of New York wiretapping laws.

 

[Harbinger_]

Speaking as someone who has been cheated on I'd say not many people can honestly blame him for violating trust. He was trying to find out if she was lying and not only was she violating his trust by lying but also by screwing some other guy.

 

[SomeLameStuff]

Next there's going to be an app for snipers to tell them were to aim to get a hit.

Wait a sec...

Seriously, there's an app for EVERYTHING these days.

 

[ultrachicken]

Wow. This story is wrong on so many levels.

 

[chadachada123]

Humans suck.

Still, it's cool that Apple actually did something useful for a change, even if it was inadvertent.

 

[Aidinthel]

This is great. I love it when both sides are in the wrong; it means I can sit back and feel superior to them both.

 

[kebab4you]

Good for Thomas, cheating people do not deserve any privacy ...

 

[Mad World]

This is great. I love it when both sides are in the wrong; it means I can sit back and feel superior to them both.

Wouldn't say he's in the wrong.

I'm against divorce, but that's not what I'm referring to.

 

[PrinceOfShapeir]

Ah, love it. He's in the wrong because he correctly suspected she was cheating and took steps to find proof.

 

[SteewpidZombie]

Basically in a court of law, the two can be split apart, yet logically the husband will NOT win any claim arguments as it could be seen as schemeing on his part. Though the wife CAN counter-sue for illegal tracking/intrusion of personal privacy against her husband.

 

[JaredXE]

Bravo Mr. Thomas, good on you. I hope divorce proceedings go well and that the ***** gets nothing. Cheating is bad, and people who cheat on their spouses deserve bad things.

And to all those who will complain about it being wiretapping or how he was being just as deceitful as his (soon to be ex-) wife, if he had hired a private investigator would anyone have given a damn?

 

[ChildofGallifrey]

I violated an ex-girlfriends trust once by logging into her Myspace page (this was several years ago) when I suspected her of not being true. Turns out she was cheating on me with my cousin and supposed best friend.

Well played Mr. Thomas.

 

[Zhukov]

Yeech.

It sounds like they deserve each other.

 

[Princess Rose]

I do hope she nails his ass for invasion of privacy.

Still, I do hope they both enjoy their divorce. **sigh** This is why people shouldn't get married unless they set ground rules they can both live with.

 

[Guffe]

So basically... all the girls I know who have this Iphone4, I can instead of facerape them I could at a party, ask to send a message, install this on their phone and get some really cool homemade porn...
*walks of thinking about all the glorious...*
Kidding kidding (I havne't even ever faceraped anyone)
Pretty cool story thou, taking things into your own hands so to say.

 

[antipunt]

Wow...there really -is- an app for everything

 

[Mr.Pandah]

I don't know why people are thinking the guy is in the wrong. I've been cheated on and it is NOT fun in anyway. You're completely shut down and think you're useless. If he had good grounds for thinking she was out with another man, why not just be sure? Oh boohoo, he tracked me when I was doing something wrong!

 

[SelectivelyEvil13]

Now let's wait for "Alibi App."

Good for him on catching his wife cheating. He wouldn't have had to invade her privacy had she not invaded someone else's privates.

 

[Kakashi on crack]

For some reason this reminds me of those idiots who let the guy get remote access to their webcams and told them to go to the bathroom via fake windows messages...


Can't say the guy was in the right here, but personally, would anyone have cared if he spent 2000$ for a private investigator to tell him the same thing that the phone told him for 200-500 bucks?

If his wife -wasn't- cheating on him, I'd be more angry at the guy for invasion of privacy, but he was obviously suspecting something, so he chose to investigate. (honestly people, do you really expect someone who's cheating on you to tell you straight to your face that they are?)