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.

Comments

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[Anonymous Coward]

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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.

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?

[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: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.