Apple's Chicken and Gizmodo's Egg: The Ethics of the iPhone 4G Mess
Every once in a while, the tech world undergoes something like a defining moment. The Apple-Gizmodo saga was one of those. It has been chatted about so much online that to try and recap the entire kerfuffle would be pointless. Yet, at the same time, less attention has been paid to that always-difficult question of ‘what it all means’. After all, what happened was that the mentality one of the biggest tech blogs around ran smack into the mindset of one of the biggest tech companies. On Gizmodo’s side were the ideals of journalism; on Apple’s the notions of law and order and corporate secrecy. For weeks…