Gizmodo iPhone Saga Explained--in a Flowchart
The saga surrounding Gizmodo's purchase of Apple's 4G iPhone prototype is a big bag of confusion. With every question answered, another three seem to spring up. Who knows how this mess is going to turn out?Well, no one at this point.However, it seems that FastCompany has a handle on a few possible scenarios. By using a Choose Your Own Adventure framework, they've managed to:(a) Make sense of a situation that is becoming more muddled day-by-day(b) Use the slap-fight between Apple and Gizmodo to entain us to no end.(c) All of the above.Their chart of the events surrounding the handset hoopla is worth taking a peek at, if for nothing more than to illustrate exactly how complicated all of this is quickly becoming. For those of you who'd rather have the detailed facts of the current legal maneuvering going on over the 4G iPhone leak, they've also posted some very respectable coverage of who did what to whom and when.The choice is yours.
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