Chinese Smartphone Maker Huawei Demotes Employees Responsible for Tweeting From iPhone

[fairuz]

I've been complaining about these Huawei people for years.

 

[rafark]

You are "just kidding" right?

What protocol was breached when X used an iPhone when he/she was an employee of a different company that make the same product - a smartphone?

Showing off a prototype to anyone including their own family when it hasn't come out yet is a huge difference to just tweeting on an iPhone about another product. The two aren't even in the same ball park.

One is revealing a future product worth billions of dollars to Apple and makes up most of their yearly revenue and the other is just tweeting on a device not made by your employer. It's crazy to me that you would even compare the two.

Would agree if the iPhone hadn't been revealed. But it had. The video was uploaded days after apple officially showed the device and every single one of its new features was already public. The press was even allowed to demo the device if I'm not mistaken. The video showed nothing we hadn't seen already. I personally loved it. A father and his daughter having a good time in apple campus showed us there are real people behind these products.

 

[KPandian1]

Would agree if the iPhone hadn't been revealed. But it had. The video was uploaded days after apple officially showed the device and every single one of its new features was already public. The press was even allowed to demo the device if I'm not mistaken. The video showed nothing we hadn't seen already. I personally loved it. A father and his daughter having a good time in apple campus showed us there are real people behind these products.

Just because the public had, by then, seen the device doesn't mean that the father breached protocol - and as an employee, he got what he deserved.

Just like saying a porn star can be raped or a woman can be video recorded because she'd been seen nude earlier at a beach.

The press had access to officially released video - consent given.

 

[Quu]

Would agree if the iPhone hadn't been revealed. But it had. The video was uploaded days after apple officially showed the device and every single one of its new features was already public. The press was even allowed to demo the device if I'm not mistaken. The video showed nothing we hadn't seen already. I personally loved it. A father and his daughter having a good time in apple campus showed us there are real people behind these products.

Again, not about that. It was the fact he showed it to his family, nothing to do with the video that was taken and when it was shown. They are specifically not allowed to show the phone to anyone, when the video was recorded it hadn't been revealed yet and he was showing it to his daughter.

That's the rule he broke.

 

[I7guy]

Again, not about that. It was the fact he showed it to his family, nothing to do with the video that was taken and when it was shown. They are specifically not allowed to show the phone to anyone, when the video was recorded it hadn't been revealed yet and he was showing it to his daughter.

That's the rule he broke.

Here is the original MR article.

https://forums.macrumors.com/thread...-daughters-iphone-x-video-goes-viral.2082047/

 

[Brian Y]

Are you kidding me? This mistakes are unacceptable to me. If I was in charge I would have the employe fired and sued if I could.

Apple fired one of its engineers because her daughter showed a video of the new iPhone inside their campus, after the iPhone was officially revealed so no real damaged was made. The video was cute and showed the humane side of Apple. Yet the engineer was fired. At least these guys get to keep their jobs.
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It wasn't a leak. The phone was already announced and showcased to the public. And it wasn't even the employee, it was his daughter.

So? the video wasn't released yet.

Regardless of whether it was him or his daughter - it was his responsibility.

 

[0388631]

This isn't an entirely new concept. People seem to forget Oprah was made a fool because she tweeted her love for her Microsoft Surface using an iPad. Or when Samsung sued a Russian brand ambassador who was an anchor on some news show because she was using an iPhone on live television and hiding it from viewers using a folder when she was supposed to be seen with a Samsung phone.

 

[BGPL]

"The employees responsible were demoted by one rank, monthly salary, and lost a few fingers."

 

[DeepIn2U]

@Huawei,

Let this be a lesson:
If you’re going to outsource your marketing (especially for Twitter), and the post is to happen at midnight in any city, and if outsourced team waits until last minute deadline ....

You’re a fool for hiring such a team and should expect nothing less.

 

[k0bayashi]

Hahahaha. This is always hilarious. And these companies are focused on being stern and victim-minded (ie how this has "damaged" huawei brand) instead of making products that their own marketing people/agents want to use. I mean if you cannot even control your own ambassador to use your own product, you are doing something wrong.

Yeah apparently this happens more than it should.