Taiwanese Site Sued by Supplier After Leaking Claimed iPad 3 Dock Connector
Claimed iPad 3 dock connector leaked in July 2011
Apple's suppliers seem to have taken the leak seriously, however, as Apple.pro now seems to report [Google translation] that it has been sued by the supplier responsible for the part leaked in last year's report.
Apple's security demands are of course well-known, but parts for the company's devices have regularly leaked well before their public release. Most of the leaked parts have been basic ribbon cables and other internal components that have revealed little about the complete devices despite significant amounts of analysis and speculation.
Clearly Apple and its suppliers prefer that even these components not make their way into public view, although given the massive size of Apple's supply chain it may continue to have difficulty plugging leaks. Parts continue to leak on a regular basis, with some online vendors already offering some of the iPad 3 parts for sale.
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Now if I could only somehow use this to figure out what the iPad 3 will look like. Hmm, it's not working...
Ah ha! So this must be the new dock connector then!
Now if I could only somehow use this to figure out what the iPad 3 will look like. Hmm, it's not working...
We also know the home button.
I think from that we can figure it out.
Going to be a rectangle picture frame shape with a front and a back and a good chance that it has a screen.
When I leak something it looks like glass although ..........
Legal documents submitted to the Cupertino city council show that they intend to plant hundreds of fruit trees. Pictures on several recent iProduct boxes show fruit outlines. Reports are that fruit can be purchased on company premises (Infinite Loop cafeteria and others). They had tables covered with fruit at WWDC. Sounds like things a fruit company would do.
But if so, so secretive that no orchard or grower currently seems to report any relationship whatsoever. But that's just standard business when dealing with them.
Infinite Fruit Loop.
It seems like Apple's lawyers are the ones who need to given more shares in the company. I bet they have no lives outside of a court room.
You have no clue.
99% of a lawyers life is spent not being anywhere near a courtroom, unless you feel that the cases prepare themselves? Or that there aren't tens of thousand of pages of documents for even mid range cases? Over a million pages even for the large complex cases?
For every hour spent in a courtroom there are hundreds of hours of prep work.
- A Lawyer
If you are referring to Apple as the "un-named" entity...They are not a fruit company as far as I know.
Legal documents submitted to the Cupertino city council show that they intend to plant hundreds of fruit trees. Pictures on several recent iProduct boxes show fruit outlines. Reports are that fruit can be purchased on company premises (Infinite Loop cafeteria and others). They had tables covered with fruit at WWDC. Sounds like things a fruit company would do.
But if so, so secretive that no orchard or grower currently seems to report any relationship whatsoever. But that's just standard business when dealing with them.
If Apple tries to keep this insanity up, at some point the whole company is going to implode on the weight of their fanatical security measures. It's a losing battle they are fighting anyway - there is no way that this problem is going to get anything but worse in this day and age. They need a different tactic than such a strong-arm approach.
Tony
So far they have done a good job, but at one point or another you have to sit back and ask yourself if you're going to focus on security more or quality like they have been.
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