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iOS 11 GM urls were leaked to 9to5mac and macrumors

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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 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.

No, but he did invent Markdown: 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.

Yeah, 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.

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http://9to5mac.com/2017/09/08/ios-11-gm-d22-iphone-8-details

http://9to5mac.com/2017/09/08/ios-11-gm-wallpapers

https://9to5mac.com/2017/09/08/ios-11-gm-leak-seemingly-leak...

https://www.macrumors.com/2017/09/09/first-look-new-version-...

https://www.macrumors.com/2017/09/10/ios11-gm-faceid-apple-p...

https://www.macrumors.com/2017/09/09/ios-11-golden-master-le... (mostly same as 1st link)

I don't get why this leak is a big deal, was there something new in the leak beside the design of the iPhone X and the "Face Unlock" sensors? These facts were known for at least a month. Maybe the fact that there will be an LTE Apple watch? That doesn't seem too much damaging to me.

I think it's more the public embarrassment and loss of face from the leak before their big press conference than actual damage to the company. Especially since they have "doubled down on secrecy".

Regardless, someone is super fired as a result of this.

Why leak it one day before the event? Seems stupid and dangerous to me.

Gruber said the images were posted to a public URL. The person who leaked the URL probably wasn’t the same person who posted the images, so before it went live the leaker had nothing to leak.

Plot twist: Apple sends the leak to make a big deal about the "leak" in order to hype the press-release.

I don't know a single person who would care about this leak.

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