Comment on Apple sues YouTuber who leaked iOS 26’s new “Liquid Glass” software redesign
floo@retrolemmy.com 3 weeks agoI remember when the iPhone 4 leak happened because of that phone prototype that got left behind. Everyone felt really bad for the guy, and it was widely believed that it was completely by accident.
acosmichippo@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
seems incongruous to me that the NDA is that strict but the prototypes are even allowed out in the wild at all.
floo@retrolemmy.com 3 weeks ago
Per height are not allowed out in the wild anymore. There was a massive shift in policy after the iPhone 4 incident.
stealth_cookies@lemmy.ca 3 weeks ago
It is about managing risk, you do need real world testing for many products, and it is impossible to do that without risking the public sees it (you could camouflage it like they do with cars) , but at the same time it probably isn’t suitable to take an unreleased phone into a bar where the risk of losing it is higher than say a grocery store.
tehmics@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
It was in a rounded, 3gs-like case