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Product secrecy is good for Apple and should be strictly enforced, but maybe 10 percent of niceness and 90 percent of strictness is OK too. —STEVE WOZNIAK, GIZMODO.COM
nutbastard so—what IS a “big deal” to Jobs?
Gordonium Despite how dirty I feel for saying it, an NDA is an NDA. If I were his boss and I had to answer to Jobs, I’d fire his ass, too. GI8EBJK<I =FI =I<<;FD Nfq i\XZ_\[ flk kf >`qdf[f X]k\i _`j ]fid\i gXike\i Ó i\[ X ^lp n_f j_fn\[ _`d k_\ e\n *> `GX[%
Woz on Apple Security and Gray Powell I don’t know anything for real about this iPhone issue, from Apple’s perspective. Was the engineer not allowed to have this iPhone out of the secure areas? I don’t know. Was he/she not allowed to use this iPhone outside and be seen with it? I don’t know. But I can tell you that the test engineer who showed me an iPad after midnight, for 2 minutes, during the iPad launch was indeed fired. I opted to spend 2 minutes with Numbers on this iPad, trying some stunts I’d seen on Apple’s website demo video. I was not told that it was a 3G model and I had no way to know that. I was told that this engineer had to wait until midnight to show it outside of Apple’s secure area. And I’m an Apple employee who he was showing it to. My guess is that he was allowed to take the iPad outside of the secure area but still not supposed to show it. I did describe this to Steve Jobs the
Faizan Momin Never mind the article, Jesus, where can I buy that Tshirt?
Police Raid Gizmodo Editor’s House Wow. Last week, Gizmodo published a massive scoop when they got their hands on what is mostly likely the next iPhone. At the time there was plenty of talk about the legality of Gizmodo’s actions (as they admitted to paying $5,000 for the device). Now Gizmodo has just published a post saying that editor Jason Chen had four of his computers and two servers confiscated last night by California’s Rapid Enforcement Allied Computer Team, who entered the house with a search warrant. The document detailing what police intended to seize refers to Apple’s “prototype 4G iPhone” and is also referred to as “stolen” (Gizmodo has contended that the device was found in a bar, not stolen). —JASON KINCAID, TECHCRUNCH.COM
Erin Actually, this is the California Penal Code at work, not Apple. The District Attorney is the one that decides whether or not to press charges.
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night of the iPad introduction and he said, “So it’s no big deal.” We talked about family things after that for a short while. But that engineer did get fired.