His twitter posts were made during his work hours and for work purposes and he was renumerated by Apple for making them ?
Please, guy is human like all of us, he has a life outside work. What he does in his spare time is no concern of us or Apple.
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His twitter posts were made during his work hours and for work purposes and he was renumerated by Apple for making them ?
Please, guy is human like all of us, he has a life outside work. What he does in his spare time is no concern of us or Apple.
His twitter posts were made during his work hours and for work purposes and he was renumerated by Apple for making them ?
Please, guy is human like all of us, he has a life outside work. What he does in his spare time is no concern of us or Apple.
If what he did was of no concern to Apple, he wouldn't have deleted his twitter account when it came to light. Him dissing on developers would be like a lawyer dissing on his clients or an employee of a retail shop dissing on the customers. Even though it was not done at the direction of Apple (and who knows if it was done during work hours) it is still of great concern to his employer. Further, he revealed information in those tweets that is supposed to be secret between Apple and the developers - in other words, he misused information he had as a result of his employment.
Finally, Apple has a very strict rule about public communications, even in one's off hours, as a condition of employment. He violated it.
He deleted his twitter account because of people like you bitching about it and mixing it up with his profesionnal life. I would've done the same.
The rest of the situation is between him and Apple. People bitching about him making a few fart apps before getting employed and judging his quality as an employee over it are overreacting for nothing.
Just jealous people that forgot to apply when Apple posted the job offer.
I wonder if its some sneaky way to get your "fart Joke or nudie app" on the app store.
Get hired by Apple in a position of App Manager and you too can make anything you like.
Get hired by Apple in a position of App Manager and you too can make anything you like.
You're the one who said he's a good employee. I'm merely pointing out he violated apple's rules and did things deleterious to his employer - in other words, he's a bad employee. Of course that's between him and apple, but you were quite willing to discuss his employment relationship with apple when you thought no one could cite any evidence contrary to your position.
You're putting words into my mouth. I said fart apps are not a basis for judging his work performance. I'd go farther and say his twitter posts aren't either. How do you know what Apple permits and doesn't ? You've read his work contract ?
Again : I never said he was a good or bad employee, just that this is a big pile of nothing and people are overreacting to it. Crass journalism generates 6 page thread...
Now you are putting words in your mouth. What you actually said was:
And, yes, I have read the standard Apple employment contract. While it's possible he had a different one than everyone else, and he is the one apple employee allowed to tweet about topics related to his employment, I doubt it.
Vaguely insulting
It's vaguely insulting to force developers of decent apps to submit their work for review by the guy who made fart apps.
It's vaguely insulting to force developers of decent apps to submit their work for review by the guy who made fart apps.
That was 1 post in this thread. See post 112 for what you're claiming I didn't say.
As for again, his employment contract, none of your business. None of mine. Judging the guy and his twitter posts or his fart apps is plainly the realm of the stuck up. This is a non-issue, there is no reason to even report it. Crass journalism on the level of paparazzi news.
no no no. I said you said something. You said you didn't, and instead said something else. I concede you said that thing in post 112. But you also said that which you denied saying.
His employment contract is my business to the extent it now appears that the guy in charge of dealing with app reviews feels perfectly free to tweet about my supposedly confidential interactions with the app store review process.
Just like if I am a customer at Chipotle, and the manager feels free to tweet about my daily order. Or the manager at the pharmacy feels free to tweet about my prescription.
My privacy is protected by my contract with apple, which is enforced by restrictions apple puts on its employees. If an employee decides to violate his employment agreement with Apple, it becomes my business when that violation results in or makes possible injury to me.
It's not an issue of being stuck up. It's an issue of this ******* violating a de facto three-way agreement between him, Apple, and me.
Oh, that was you he was commenting about ?
Right. So you are standing in line in a pharmacy, ready to pick up your prescription, and you hear the pharmacist read each prescription ahead of you out loud on the store's loudspeaker, along with the customer's name and social security number.
His breach of his employment agreement isn't your problem until you're at the podium?
Perhaps he actually understands the App market extremely well. The App store continues to thrive against increased competition. The phone market is not the computer market. iPhone users and iPod users are NOT necessarily Mac users.
By way of a parallel, "The Sun" newspaper (UK trashy tabloid) is hardly the pinnacle of high-brow journalism but it is the best selling newspaper in the UK and employs some of the most astute and intelligent people in the industry.
...but then again, I suppose it is much easier to judge a book by its cover.
By way of a parallel, "The Sun" newspaper (UK trashy tabloid) is hardly the pinnacle of high-brow journalism but it is the best selling newspaper in the UK and employs some of the most astute and intelligent people in the industry.
...but then again, I suppose it is much easier to judge a book by its cover.
He read your prescription on the loud speaker and gave your name ?
Did he do like 200,000 tweets where he named every dev and dropped their prescription ?
Or are you just blowing this whole thing out of proportion ?
Man. People here complain about anything don't they. Isn't it his last name, it has to be about the applications he developed, yet nobody even really knows the guy.
Let's wait and see what he does for the App Store. That's really the only thing you should be worried about.
p.s. I'm really glad that I never stepped into this "social" networking thing. A waste of time. Take your time elsewhere and make some money instead. That's more my thing
Let's wait and see what he does for the App Store. That's really the only thing you should be worried about.
p.s. I'm really glad that I never stepped into this "social" networking thing. A waste of time. Take your time elsewhere and make some money instead. That's more my thing
Apple's NDA is very strict. As an employee off the clock you are not allowed to wear any Apple provided shirts that are in season (like the "uniform or genius shirts"), so during break we were made to change our shirts if we went out to lunch, you're not suppose to identify yourself as a current employee on message boards or social networking sites, you cannot discuss anything pertaining to your job to anyone, and you cannot freelance.
Its part of the huge packet of paperwork you sign.
That Gawker quote is classic too. Why is it the biggest moralizers are always the ones found to have the most out-there habits??
You mean like apps that allow you to over/underclock your CPU, set up a wi-fi tether, modify your hosts file to block ads, etc?Not only should this guy be canned for conflict of interest, he should be canned for horrifically-designed apps.
Hey Phillip, there's a better place for crappy apps like yours: Android.