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Tim Cook Met With Path's Dave Morin Over Address Book Debacle

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Apple CEO Tim Cook summoned Path founder Dave Morin to Apple headquarters in Cupertino to be "grilled" by Cook and other Apple execs after it was discovered that Path was quietly uploading user's entire address books to its servers, according to an article in Bloomberg Businessweek.
Path co-founder Dave Morin got hauled into Apple's headquarters to be grilled by Chief Executive Officer Tim Cook and other executives, according to people familiar with the meeting but not authorized by Apple to discuss it.
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Path has since stated that the uploading was merely to help users find their friends on the service, but the matter has generated a change in App Store policies and a Congressional investigation.

Considering the size of the address book blowup, it isn't necessarily surprising that Morin would be requested at Apple HQ, but the public doesn't generally find out about these secret meetings.

(Photo of Dan Morin from Flickr/Joi Ito)

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johncrab

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I bet that was a very polite, to the point punch-up for the record books. Tim was probably flanked by a dozen lawyers. Leaking this is clear setup to show Apple strongly disapproves and disavows here and that this young turk will be left twisting in the wind when it's all over. I detect anger here on the part of Apple.
 
smithrh

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Considering the size of the address book blowup, it isn't necessarily surprising that Morin would be requested at Apple HQ, but the public doesn't generally find out about these secret meetings.
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Pour encourager les autres, no doubt.
 
whooleytoo

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I'm guessing that THAT photo of Morin wasn't taken during/after THAT meeting! ;)

I wonder what would happen if he refused to meet with Cook? Losing his developer account?
 
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troop231

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Sounds like a privilege to me to meet with the Apple execs, regardless of the situation :)
 
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agentx

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I am pretty sure it was the "so public" bit and also the fact that Apple dropped the ball and did not see what the app was doing. In fact i am certain that many Apps have been pulling, accessing, storing Address Book info since iOS was released. It is a **** storm and i am sure many "updated" apps will be coming out to "fix" the problem of the Apps "taking" all your address book data !!!!
But damage is done.....any good backup system will have the data already full stored.....
 
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potsy4u

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Curious...

anyone want to speculate on who looks more like a mac and who looks more like a pc? :p
 
WatchTheThrone

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Sick em Tim lol
 
osnipassos

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bulls***, the Apple is going to launch a social network and will use the path.
The Path follows the style "family and friends" of Apple. :)
 
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johncrab said:
I bet that was a very polite, to the point punch-up for the record books. Tim was probably flanked by a dozen lawyers. Leaking this is clear setup to show Apple strongly disapproves and disavows here and that this young turk will be left twisting in the wind when it's all over. I detect anger here on the part of Apple.
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Anger would have meant that Apple was going in dry and taking all the lawyers along for the train ride.
 
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I met Dave Morin a couple of times, when he was working for Apple Education (and I was working on behalf of Apple Ed). At least now I know I only have one step of separation between me and Apple's CEO...

Not sure if I'm still 'friends' with him on Facebook, but I remember seeing a lot of updates from him back in the day.
 
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