Gizmodo Blows Whistle On 4G iPhone Loser

Stoobalou writes "Not content with its iPhone scoop, Gizmodo has probably ruined the career of a young engineer. The tech blog last night exposed the name of the hapless Apple employee who had one German beer too many and left a prototype iPhone G4 in a California bar some 20 miles from Apple's Infinite Loop campus. Was that really necessary?" It also came out that they paid $5K for the leaked prototype and that Apple wants it back.

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Slashdot:

[Anonymous Coward]

News For Apple, Stuff That Apples

Re:What's the point?

[gzipped_tar]

If not, he's probably going to be promoted from an engineering minion to mid-management at marketing dept.

if one, why not a dozen...

[CAIMLAS]

If you let one of these Apple engineers off the hook for their crimes against humanity, then you've got to make exception for them all. It's a slippery slope. First, Apple engineers today; tomorrow, lawyers and political figures. That's a social travesty we can not allow.

Re:What's the point?

[ColdWetDog]

If not, he's probably going to be promoted from an engineering minion to mid-management at marketing dept.

Come on now, it wasn't that bad. He didn't kill anybody.

Re:What's the point?

[chord.wav]

Seems to me that it's all part of Steve's marketing campaign... This guy probably never existed in real life and the guy playing his role will soon start shooting videos threatening to disclose more information, prototypes, etc a la Bin Laden and leaking them to Arab news networks from time to time so everyone at Apple is scared and work harder...

Re:What's the point?

[DIplomatic]

Seems to me that it's all part of Steve's marketing campaign... This guy probably never existed in real life and the guy playing his role will soon start shooting videos threatening to disclose more information, prototypes, etc a la Bin Laden and leaking them to Arab news networks from time to time so everyone at Apple is scared and work harder...

Wow you went from rational skeptic to tin-foil-hat loony in less than 2 sentences! My hat is off to you, sir.

Re:What's the point?

[FictionPimp]

It's probably true. He posts on slashdot so we know he has at least never once lost his virginity.

Re:What's the point?

[Locke2005]

Killing someone would qualify him for upper management.

Re:What's the point?

[X0563511]

No. We just found some really good shrooms.

(there goes a troll mod (vs a frosty-pisser))

Re:First visit in 3 weeks... Nothing but Apple.

[Red Flayer]

Slashdot with the Apple section switched off. Bliss!

Bliss would be Slashdot with the following sections turned off:

Idle
Main
Apple
AskSlashdot
Book Reviews
Developers
Games
Hardware
Idle (yes, this one should be turned off again)
IT
Index
Interviews
Linux
Mobile
Politics
Science
Technology
YRO
Idle (just in case we missed it the first two times)

THAT would be bliss... pure, unadulterated zen bliss.

Re:Slashdot, Apple whoremongerer?

[hduff]

I like the Apple stories because they inform me of technology I can either live without or obtain elsewhere cheaper. It's the app for that.