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The tone in this comment section is, frankly, baffling. Nobody owes Apple any kind of right to control when or how their products are announced.
by Nullabillity 3y ago
The tone in this comment section is, frankly, baffling. Nobody owes Apple any kind of right to control when or how their products are announced.
- JohnFen 3y agoWhat's baffling? It's not a matter of "owing" Apple any right. Apple already has the inherent right to control what and when they want to publicly reveal, and anyone who has signed an NDA with them has made a promise that they won't do it first.
- Nullabillity 3y ago> Apple already has the inherent right to control what and when they want to publicly reveal Why? This isn't PII, and the only one thing hurt by leaking it is Tim Cook's fragile ego.
- wilg 3y agoI mean it's just a right to privacy really, isn't it?
- Nullabillity 3y agoPeople have a right to privacy, corporations don't.
- JohnFen 3y agoLegally speaking, they do. Not to the same degree as people, but still.
- JohnFen 3y agoWhether or not harm comes of it is kinda beside the point. The point is that if you've promised not to reveal information, you've promised not to reveal information. If you do so anyway, you're in the wrong. If it's a whistleblower situation, breaking that promise can be justifiable, but leaks like this aren't that.
- glompers 3y agoNeither companies nor families go around looking to share their responsibilities (product or personal) with third parties on terms chosen and reneged by the third party whenever the third party wants to do so. If they share their responsibility for something it is not consensual, it is explicitly on the basis of terms they propose, and thereafter owed to them by someone.