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Weekend Notes: Woz and Apple Firing, iPads in Israel, No Mac App Store, German Airline Offer

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A few odds and ends of interest from the weekend Apple news cycle:

- Steve Wozniak reports that he was shown a 3G iPad by an Apple employee the morning of the Wi-Fi launch, and that Apple employee was subsequently fired.
I can tell you that the test engineer who showed me an iPad after midnight, for 2 minutes, during the iPad launch was indeed fired. I opted to spend 2 minutes with Numbers on this iPad, trying some stunts I'd seen on Apple's website demo video. I was not told that it was a 3G model and I had no way to know that. I was told that this engineer had to wait until midnight to show it outside of Apple's secure area. And I'm an Apple employee who he was showing it to. My guess is that he was allowed to take the iPad outside of the secure area but still not supposed to show it.
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- Israel lifts ban on iPad imports. iPads were temporarily banned from being imported after it was claimed that they did not follow normal wireless standards:
The tests proved the device identifies the Wi-fi access point in its surroundings and adjusts itself automatically, enabling the iPad to be operated without interfering with other wireless devices, the ministry said.
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- Steve Jobs reassures one customer in an email that there will be no "Mac App Store" that mirrors the iTunes App Store. There had been some wild rumors that Apple might be considering an approval-required Mac App Store for future versions of Mac OS X, but this has been denied.

- German Airline Lufthansa has offered the Apple employee that lost the prototype iPhone a free trip to Munich to visit their new Bavarian Beer Garden Business Lounge to "pick up where you left off". The next generation iPhone was lost at Gourmet Haus Staudt, a German bar in Redwood City, CA.

Article Link: Weekend Notes: Woz and Apple Firing, iPads in Israel, No Mac App Store, German Airline Offer
 
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Well is that not nice, free bear and airline, if he does not want it I will take the offer. :D
 
I never really expected apple to put out an app store for Mac OS X anyways. The only reason we have an app store on the iPhone/iPod Touch/iPad is because you can't download from the internet on that OS.

Mac OS X doesn't need an appstore. Its appstore is the internet.
 
Well, an NDA is an NDA. Whether he meant it or not, the terms are very clear.

And that is different the iPhone guy. His was a more public mistake, but he was allowed to be using it where he was -- he was just stupid in leaving it there.
 
Cool! Steve is replying to random customer emails now! I just sent him an email asking him when iTunes movies are going to have international subtitle options. Slackers.
 
The apple employee showed it to a lot more than just woz. There's a video on 9to5mac of him showing the 3G iPad to a group of random people, and you can see woz sitting down in the background not paying attention. So this guy was clearly showing the thing off to a bunch of people when he obviously was not allowed to.
 
Grimace said:
Well, an NDA is an NDA. Whether he meant it or not, the terms are very clear.

And that is different the iPhone guy. His was a more public mistake, but he was allowed to be using it where he was -- he was just stupid in leaving it there.
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"leaving it there" was Gizmodo's story about it, and their story is a little fishy. For all we know, maybe the unnamed person pick pocketed it or stole a jacket it was in. I doubt we're going to hear Gray's side of it. Last I heard, the person that sold it to Gizmodo hasn't come forward to talk about what happened either, which is suspicious as well.
 
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