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Gizmodo has supposedly ID'd the guy who lost that prototype.
Went to my school and graduated the year that I would have, so I probably had a ton of freshman/soph classes with him. Don't recognize him by the picture they include, but that pic may have well been captioned "generic white engineering student."
besides of course Gizmodo is trying to spin the story into the "guy who lost it" instead of "the guy who took it, knowing who it belonged to, and sold it to Gizmodo."
You can't blame Gizmondo for for taking up a chance to see a leaked apple product. But there is no need to tell everyone the name of the guy that lost it. He has enough problems right now.
I am a little confused as to why they needed to do anything more than break the news though.
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Also it's pretty fucking rich that they make such a big deal of hiding the actual...THIEF'S identity, in an article completely dedicated to compromising the Apple guy's identity.
I don't think they fucked the guy at all. They put a name to him, a face on him, connected him to two different social networks. The guy can't be fired behind a black curtain or disappear into empty demotion. If Apple fires him, everyone will know why, and it'll do nothing to impugn the skills which got him put on an integral aspect of Apple's most important product.
Apple would be stupid to fire him anyway. They have a young, social person with a taste for pubs who is subject to fallibility as a new face for a company that is lately expanding its reputation as a dark monolith with its walled garden standards &c. When's the last time anyone gave a shit about how hip an iPod commercial song might be? 2007?
And I doubt Gizmodo is going to get in legal trouble here, since they clearly sought Apple and the programmer out in regards to returning the device.
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Went to my school and graduated the year that I would have, so I probably had a ton of freshman/soph classes with him. Don't recognize him by the picture they include, but that pic may have well been captioned "generic white engineering student."
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What happens now?
Why the fuck would you do this to the guy?
Let's play Mario Kart or something...
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yeah i was wondering how apple will respond to gizmodo about this
yeah, they just ruined this guys career, and trashed him all over the tech world right now.
He is unhirable.
He should be able to sue for his salary * the number of years until retirement compounded with damages for this.
Let's play Mario Kart or something...
gizmodo isn't really that professional
No, that is like the opposite of journalism.
You guys are making it sound like Apple didn't know HE lost it. Of course they know.
But Syn's comment about "him being unhireable" may be on to something.
Not if doing so potentially brings more journalistic coverage for Apple products. They'd get something out of the deal, right?
No, they would never get anything out of a deal with Apple. Apple doesn't do media exclusives.
And playing softball to get premium access is why every last television news program today is fucking terrible.
I was obviously out of the loop so as usual I had to read about it here!
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they just blacklisted this guy from an industry basically
http://www.macworld.com/article/150708/2010/04/lonely_volcano.html?lsrc=rss_main
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I curious to see if he gets fired from Apple
if he does, I doubt anyone else would've hired him with or without the Giz story
Karma, maaan. Karma.
I already hated Gizmodo for their unbridled cock-sucking of Apple products, but this is just despicable.
I mean, really. What possessed them to think that this was at all an idea that wasn't fucking horrible?
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Apple would be stupid to fire him anyway. They have a young, social person with a taste for pubs who is subject to fallibility as a new face for a company that is lately expanding its reputation as a dark monolith with its walled garden standards &c. When's the last time anyone gave a shit about how hip an iPod commercial song might be? 2007?
And I doubt Gizmodo is going to get in legal trouble here, since they clearly sought Apple and the programmer out in regards to returning the device.