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>What I’m saying is they quite possibly didn’t even know just how many little things, things I won’t mention here for the sake of DF readers who are trying to s
by Jonnax 9y ago
>What I’m saying is they quite possibly didn’t even know just how many little things, things I won’t mention here for the sake of DF readers who are trying to stay spoiler-free for Tuesday’s event, were spoiled by this leak. That person should be ashamed of themselves, and should be very worried when their phone next rings.
This is a bit of an extreme reaction for what is essentially spoilers for a company's product launch happening in days.
Does this person work for Apple? They seem way too invested.
- ballenf 9y agoNo, but he did invent Markdown: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Gruber https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Gruber I think his indignation is based on principle of there being a person working for Apple, being paid by Apple, who would bite the hand that feeds them. It's one thing to dig into publicly released beta's, etc. but another to violate all manner of confidentiality guarantees you voluntarily signed. Someone who can get hired at Apple, can get hired at any number of places -- they're not hurting for work. I think Gruber's upset both with the engineer and little with Apple for (the perception of) lowering their hiring standards to allow in such an amoral individual. But I'm reading a lot into his few words.
- wodenokoto 9y agoYeah, I thought ending on complaining about having an advertisement being spoiled, was a bit silly and took away from the message of not handing out confidential company information. > Does this person work for Apple? Gruber makes a living writing positively about Apple, so no, he doesn't work for them directly, but he is in more than one way, heavily vested in Apple.