Apple Goes Ape When iPhone 4G Prototype is Wrongfully Displayed
| April 28, 2010 | Posted by George Marks under Apple, Electronics, Gadgets, iPad, iPhone, iPod, tablet, Tech News |
Apple is well known for its iPhones and the new iPad. People are so excited when the release new hardware that some are willing to wait in line for hours (and days) to buy it before anyone else does .
With so much excitement, what would you do if you were Jason Chen, a senior editor at tech magazine Gizmodo, and you happened to come across a yet-to-be-released iPhone? Also, what would you do if you were Apple and Chen wanted to post about your new product before it was fit to be released?
Well, here’s what happened. According to Chen, an Apple engineer lost this piece of equipment at a bar. Chen tried to get it back to him and couldn’t. The police broke into Chen’s home and seized his computer and several flash drives. Chen then posted about everything to include the name of the engineer, information about the phone, and information from California state law about how unpublished information from a journalist cannot be used against him simply due to it being in his or her possession.
The question some may ask is if Chen knew the engineer’s name, what was the holdup in getting the phone back to him? And why is he referring to law that protects him as a journalist if he had no intention of publishing about the phone?
Of this there have been several results. Chen has been dissed pretty hard from people online. The post he published about what happened stopped allowing comments at around the 800 mark. Apple has had its share of negative comments as well. In the end, it is for the courts to decide.
Was this whole thing blown out of proportion? Perhaps. Will it continue to be? Stay tuned.
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