The now-infamous leak of a lost iPhone 4G prototype to tech blog Gizmodo has caused "huge" damage to Apple's earnings, the company is saying, reports CNN. "By publishing details about the phone and its features," Apple attorney George Riley told police investigating the sale of the phone to Gizmodo, "people that would have otherwise purchased a currently existing Apple product," decided to wait for the next release, "thereby hurting overall sales." Does Apple have a case?
What malarkey: Apple has released new iPhones at their World Wide Developers Conference each year "for the past two years," says Chris Weiss at Gadget Crave. So "any intelligent consumer" should have been able to "deduce that a new iPhone is coming in June" and managed to make the momentous decision to wait "without Gizmodo’s story."
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