Apple Fails Due Diligence in Trade Secret Case

Brett writes "Despite claims to the contrary, it now appears that Apple didn't do any serious investigation inside the company before they sued AppleInsider and the PowerPage. This is quite a bit of a problem because Californian law and First Amendment precedent requires Apple check up on itself before threatening journalists. From the article, "It appears that Apple has adopted a shoot-first, ask questions later approach to dealing with rumors sites. The company took no depositions, required no oaths from its employees, and failed to subpoena anyone related to the company or the development of the device in question.""

Comments

Re:Summary misleading?

[tcoady]

I may or not be a shill but I don't see why Apple must conduct a which hunt from within to prove the source of the leek was or was not from its own staff.

Re:Queue Apple Apologists in 3... 2...

[doublem]

You;re suffering form a common delusion.

You seem to think that your impression of the prevailing /. opinion on a topic is the opinion that all /. readers and posters should have.

I, as an individual, am not being inconsistent.

I think Apple products are largely dumbed down and lame. I think they're a collection of jerks who wanted to be monopolists, but didn't have the business savvy in the 1980's to pull it off, and have been culturing an underdog, hippie image ever since.

I dissent from what you see as the prevailing /. opinion, but that does not make me inconsistent. It means I actually think for myself instead of swallowing whatever people say.

Do not confuse individual thought and dissent within a group with inconsistency.