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Apple fired the father of the viral YouTuber

Sheesh, everyone knew every spec about the phone BEFORE they keynote. I guess they need to enforce the rules though to keep this from constantly happening.
 
How does an Apple Engineer not know the rules regarding unreleased Apple devices? It's taught to them since day one. Also why would let your Youtube daughter make a video of it knowing very well that if she uploaded it you would loose your job. Something about the whole thing story is fishy. If I was the father I would have let her check out the phone but don't record video of it, especially on the Apple Campus. Surprised no one said anything to her with that big camera when she was on the Apple Campus. She knew that uploading that video would make her famous, what youtuber wouldn't know this.
 
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mcdj said:
What more could there be? Clueless chick with equally clueless dad puts an unreleased product in full public view, at a sensitive time when every eye is trained directly on that product. Filmed on company grounds no less. Apple makes an example of him. End of story, end of job.
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Ntombi said:
Like what?
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He must have known he was breaking the rules, and he must have known the consequences. So why would he risk it? It's pretty illogical.

Perhaps he was on his way out anyway, or he thought he was too important and thus would get away with it.

Either way, there's more to it than "girl gets dad fired".
 
Ok, I figured it out.

The guy was ready to retire.

Apple said “We'll give you a nice little parting bonus if you help us make a security propaganda video. Bring your daughter for lunch and film her playing with the iPhone X. Have her post it on YouTube. We'll wait a couple of days til it goes viral, then we'll “fire” you. She'll make another video announcing your termination, so that everyone is reminded about what happens when you leak our IP.”
 
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HopeWV said:
Did anyone notice how she kept repeating that her father takes full responsibility for this? Yes he was at fault, but maybe she shouldn’t have said that so much and just said I made a mistake, I take full responsibility instead of blaming it all on dad. Just my two cents.
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I see five cents worth of post. Here is three cents back you can use for another post.
 
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I feel bad for this girl and her family. When someone loses a job it isn't easy. Having said that, he knew the rules. Working at apple he knows how secretive Apple likes to be.
 
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He shared a device when he should not have. She did a vlog about that device and he got fired. Then she wondered, “Hmm...I wonder how I can make this even worse? Oh! I can vlog about it again!”
 
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Never in a million years, don’t care about the views, etc etc her dad is going to be okay, etc etc, and this is why she made a video? Wait what?
 
My guess is the dad thought one of two things:

1. Daughter would upload the video after the official release or pre-order stage at least.
2. Daughter's video would die a quick and view-less death in the pits of YouTube obscurity.

Sucks pretty hard to be let go, considering this job was probably what he expected he would retire on. She should have owned up to it way more/
 
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Pascal325 said:
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I have a problem with this. Then Apple shouldn't let their employees take those phones out in the public. Once it's out in the public, it can be looked at and videoed. Apple had no leg to stand on as this technically is 100% their fault for allowing that.
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they weren't out in public though.
 
This girl is going to live a hard life....

Hey, Girl. It's YOUTUBE!

You shouldn't break the rules. Sigh... if you had to ...put it in private mode.

EDIT: I don't like this corporate culture. I understand people who break simple rules are responsible for their action, but dang it...there needs to be more tolerance for their mistakes.

In this case, although they gotta follow rules, we know the what the x is going to be..(not talking about experience use, but spec). I mean...look at the keynote reviewers. They got to use it and show it off on youtube. Aren't they suppose to sign NDA as well if these techies want to youtube their 1st hand experience?
 
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I couldn't help but laugh when she couldn't understand why it was such a big deal. Other youtubers had done so, but they were given explicit permission by Apple to film and upload it to youtube (they were allowed to record it in Apple's presence during the demo event that Apple had set up after the keynote). What she did was she filmed it without Apple's permission or knowledge. And it does matter for a product that hasn't been released. Had she done this after the product was released, it wouldn't have made a difference since it's "just like any other youtuber" (and she wouldn't have gotten attention).
 
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