Apple fires iPhone X engineer after daughter's hands-on video goes viral
Apple has reportedly dismissed an engineer after his daughter's iPhone X hands-on video went viral on YouTube. Brooke Amelia Peterson published a vlog earlier this week, which included a trip to the Apple campus to visit her father and see an unreleased iPhone X. Peterson's video was quickly picked up by sites like 9to5Mac, and it spread even further on YouTube.
Peterson now claims her father has been fired as a result of her video. In a tearful video, Peterson explains her father violated an Apple company rule by allowing her to film the unreleased handset at Apple's campus. Apple reportedly requested that Peterson remove the video, but it was clearly too late as the content spread further and further.
From the follow-up video (at 2:14):
"He takes full responsibility for letting me film his iPhone X. Apple let him go. At the end of the day, when you work for Apple, it doesn't matter how good of a person you are. If you break a rule, they just have no tolerance. They had to do what they had to do. I'm not mad at Apple. I'm not gonna stop buying Apple products. Rules are in place for the happiness and for the safety of workers."
Will Mr. Peterson get sued if he tries to work somewhere else in Silicon Valley?
Also at Engadget.
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(Score: 5, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Monday October 30 2017, @06:33PM (3 children)
The only thing that stood out to me was this: "I'm not gonna stop buying Apple products." It's like a religion; people have to publicly re-affirm their commitment to "the cause".
(Score: 2, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Monday October 30 2017, @06:45PM
Yeah, that made me want to vomit a little.
(Score: 2) by takyon on Monday October 30 2017, @06:59PM
It was worth it to transcribe that part of the video.
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(Score: 1) by nekomata on Tuesday October 31 2017, @12:37PM
I found this to be far worse: "Rules are in place for the happiness and for the safety of workers."
This sounds like something straight out of 1984. I realize that both sentences can be understood without any dark undertone. However this one still jarred me quite a bit while reading it.