Gizmodo and the iphone

Gizmodo's story on how it got a hold of the next iPhone is told like a thriller or something. Maybe it's all true, or maybe it's true as far as Gizmodo knows, but perhaps they can't really know because they weren't there when the person who obtained it obtained it. Who knows. Andy Ihnatko explores some of the legal and journalistic questions of the episode.

Anyhow, as many have pointed out, it's not the biggest deal in the sense of what's actually been revealed here (really not that much). Rather, it's a big deal in the sense that for the first time in recent history Apple's impressive security wall and accompanying pr machine have been beat.

As for the new iPhone itself, with the apparently long-awaited front camera, video chat is presumably going to become fairly common. It's surprising to me that it hasn't already; I almost never see people in cafes doing it on their laptops. But now there will be a popular handheld device that will let you do video chat. Oy.