if you were to reply to valleywag anonymously, how would you recieve your $? just an observation.
The problem is playing the moron in legal cases doesn't usually end well.Don't be so sure. A great flaw in our legal system is that there is so much verbiage, and limitations in that verbiage, that a great deal more is legal than most people realize. The contest makes clear that whatever is done be legal; if someone can find a legal way to enter, no problem.
Example: someone has an iSlate prototype, sweet-talks Jobs into canceling his NDA, and gives it to Valleywag. $100,000 win. All legal. (Unlikely of course, but legally possible, hinging only on Steve's signature.)
if you were to reply to valleywag anonymously, how would you recieve your $? just an observation.
There's no confirmation of the existence of anything. Absolutely none. You could post a contest just like this one for photos of an "iToilet" and get the same cease-and-desist from Apple's lawyers. Gotta quit reading into things.
The point of the C&D is not whether such a thing exists, but that persons under an NDA are unlawfully being enticed, period.
FTR, I'm not arguing that there isn't a TabSlateBook, because I don't really give a rat's ass one way or the other.
It isn't criminal. Breach of contract and inducement of is a civil matter.This is a criminal conspiracy..
Furthermore, let's assume that Apple announces this device at the end of the month. The only damages Apple could attest to would be the damage of the product being knowledge to the public for the extra less-than-2-weeks. I doubt these are significant damages to Apple as a corporate entity, but I could be wrong.
...and let's assume Dell starts creating a competing product as soon as they see the tablet. And assume Dell's product is better and Apple doesn't sell one tablet once Dell's tablet is ready. Information coming out two weeks early means Dell starts two weeks earlier, releases their product two weeks earlier, and costs Apple two weeks of profit which would be 40 million dollars.
I think they've done what they set out to do... Confirmation by apple of the existence of a tablet. Job done![]()
...as well as any possible details about the product's appearance, features, and physical samples...
Im beginning to suspect the Apple tablet may be real.