He worked at Apple for eight years. Do you really think he wasn't aware of the ramifications of leaking confidential coprorate information?
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Apple Leaker Issues Apology: 'Profound and Expensive Mistake'
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You watch too much bad TV.Well, obviously Apple wrote the apology. Do you have any idea how difficult it is to write or type with ten broken fingers?😁😏😏
Apple doesn't have to legally go after them. A couple of burly men can pay Gurman or Kuo a visit, comment on all the fragile item in their office. "Oh clumsy me."
Right?!
Don’t be a RAT (star backwards)!
Also 1st lesson in da Hood as well. And just about any circle of friends!
Not really. I’m sure Apple is trying to find whom is leaking their sources to said people. With the exception of Gurman who’s paid by Apple directly under the protection of Bloomberg where he’s an “analyst” lmao in absolutely no sense of the word!!
Typical seems embarrassed is all he really found out.
Something Apple tried REALLY hard before with the iPhone 4 leak.
WOW! You’re on this tip for leaking information which in absolutely no way hurt Apple at all. In fact the buzz about the Vision Pro boosted Apples stock for over a quarter when I he leak broke out and subsequent leaks occurred. ONLY until release and the exorbitant price did the product hurt Apple.
Karma is a bitch they say and nobody gets through life wishing such negativity onto others without it being self inflicted 10 fold upon themselves. Hope your affairs are in order. Somebody must’ve **** in your cereal this morning.
He probably was planning on quitting or did thinking he’d be untouchable or was smarter than Apple’s legal team or LEAP the team formed at the time of the iPhone 4 leak.
Exactly. I’ve seen many commit much worse white collar crimes affecting citizens of millions or billions get away with a 1 paragraph news bite.
Dude is a programmer. Likely he’ll freelance to rebuild his reputation, teach programming freelance on ITProf site or at schools, or is lined up at another job with much higher security.
The fact he had access directly or through contacts whom did shows he’s NOT the only culprit Apple should be focused on!
Personally I’d have thought Apple learned something from Jobs’ isolation tactics - the pirates - and after iPhone 4 leaks and many products after for the 10yrs that followed how to keep employees only partially in the know , or compartmentalized!
"it shouldn’t ruin the rest of his life." as the lead support tech at the Bugtussle, TN Best Buy.
Somewhat. But if he's not smart to consider the consequences of getting caught before committing a crime, and/or betraying his employer, Apple, then he'll just mess up again. I've met him and his kind, and most of them are incorrigible. They get caught, go to prison, get out and get a job in security with a tech firm, hack its servers and teach others to do it, too. Then they get caught again and wind up getting 10 years in Club Fed. Rinse and repeat.
It’s been hard to truly love apple these days but I gotta throw them respect for dropping the suit. Even if it cost millions in litigation and loss of any job prospects for the dude, i think it would have been more dope to reinstate him as pr manager and get backpay. #freeaude
How old is this guy? Anyone working for a corporation (especially like Apple or Google) know not to divulge any details about the company, ongoing projects and future developments. It is ingrained into you through an education program.
While it is an expensive lesson to learn - let anyone who is reading this understand that a business is not your friend and they will take any measure to protect their bottom line and that of their investors.
While it is an expensive lesson to learn - let anyone who is reading this understand that a business is not your friend and they will take any measure to protect their bottom line and that of their investors.
I take it that you will not longer read any stories based on leaked information? You wouldn’t want to come down from the moral high ground and encourage any illegal activity.
Obviosly. Apple has no contractual relationship with the people who write about the leaks.
Those who think that Apple can't touch, or put pressure on rumor reporting sites have short memories.
Gizmodo was blacklisted from Apple PR events, and a LEO task force was used to "recover" evidence.
Also look up "Think Secret," "Asteroid," and "Nick Ciarelli" and what transpired with that site.
Gizmodo was blacklisted from Apple PR events, and a LEO task force was used to "recover" evidence.
Also look up "Think Secret," "Asteroid," and "Nick Ciarelli" and what transpired with that site.
He was thinking he wouldn’t get caught
Probably leaked something that might have been a setup to catch him.
I don’t think he violated the law; that is, he didn’t break any criminal laws. He violated a contract. It was a civil issue, not a criminal one.
There are criminal laws against theft of intellectual property and trade secrets, but I don’t think his actions rose to that level and he wasn’t charged with criminal offenses.
A few years back, there were criminal actions brought against people who obtained iPhone prototypes.
Sounds more sorry for himself than anything else. Now he’s practically un-hirable, unless he wants to work for Macrumors.
No, it's not a bit much. He's lucky Apple settled.
No one ever accused me of taking the moral high ground before. Thanks! But there's a difference between educated guesses by industry pundits (MacRUMORS) and Apple insider leaks by people who signed NDAs.
The people who write about and report the leaked information are doing nothing which Apple could prevent