I imagine most people here agree, but feel some sympathy for the engineer who wasn't malicious, just careless.
Heck we got massive firmware leaks a month or two ago, he had to of known about that and how mad people were.
I don’t know how Sony, or Samsung, or Microsoft, or other companies handle this kind of stuff. But Apple is well known for taking an extremely strong stance.
Part of me thinks the daughter should’ve known better, it’s not like she’s a 12-year-old. If this was filmed a month before it was posted then she had plenty of time to think about it. It’s not like she live streamed it in then realized later that it was a mistake.
I want to think the employee just had a lapse in judgment and was just trying to have fun with/impress his daughter. I hope that’s all it was.
It’s kind of unfortunate but it was 100% predictable what would happen the instant this went online.
Sure, but the primary cause of the leak was the dad allowing her to film it at all. Based on common sense alone (aside from internal training/warnings/etc that Apple employees must go through to ge their hands on pre-release hardware), in the presence of any camera he either should not have pulled out the phone, or told his daughter to put her phone/camera away before pulling it out.
But most people are not like me. And even imagining a twenty-something version of me I can imagine doing something like this without much thought.
The intent doesn't change the consequences for Apple.
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.