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Agreed, but with that level of access, one cannot afford to be careless. And Apple could care less whether it was malicious, or careless or plain stupid. The i
by justboxing 9y ago
Agreed, but with that level of access, one cannot afford to be careless. And Apple could care less whether it was malicious, or careless or plain stupid.
The intent doesn't change the consequences for Apple.
- fullshark 9y agoTrue. Also I feel kind of bad for the kid which adds another semitragic element.
- kelnos 9y agoI don't feel bad for anyone, here. The father was flat-out stupid: there's no excuse for him not knowing Apple's policies around this sort of thing. The daughter should know better than to even take a video of an unreleased Apple product while in the office, let alone release it. These people are just incredibly foolish, and firing the guy is entirely justified. They're lucky Apple isn't suing the daughter for what I can only assume is a breach of the NDA she presumably signed before being let into the office. I personally would not work for a company that has such high requirements for strict secrecy that Apple does, but this guy did, and assuredly knew that going in.
- flor1s 9y agoSuing the daughter? I think many people will not think bad for the engineer getting fired, but I doubt suing the daughter would be worth the damage in reputation such a lawsuit would cost.
- kelnos 9y agoOh agreed; just pointing out that Apple likely could do that, and would even probably legitimately win such a suit.
- sshrinivasan 9y agoIts "couldn't care less".
- justboxing 9y agoWell, this has been argued to death here :) https://english.stackexchange.com/q/706/61174 https://english.stackexchange.com/q/706/61174