14 DAY TRIAL // The so-called Apple employee who allegedly just lost his job and felt the urge to get back at the Cupertino giant by leaking its EarPod plans has created a tumblr blog just to admit that he had lied.
“I ‘Leaked’ the story about the Biometric EarPods. But I’m not proud of it,” reads the headline. A 1,300+ word post follows, where every paragraph basically states “I’m sorry.”
“I made it up. I wrote it 5 minutes after I woke up on the 1st of may. I was blurry eyed, I had a headache, I was using the toilet and worrying about my blood pressure,” this person writes.
The author, presumably a male going by the wording and the details regarding his adjacent activities while jotting down the fake rumor, proceeds to elaborate.
“I was sitting there doing my business thinking what today’s joke would be. I take medication for ASD related stuff that can sometimes raise my blood pressure, so I was wishing I had an iPhone accessory that would measure it. I looked around on Amazon and eBay and couldn’t find a good one at a price that it was worth to me.”
“I was then thinking I wish Apple had a way to build one in to the phone. I started thinking how that would be possible. You can get the pulse from the camera with an app, but blood pressure is another thing. I thought jokingly you could wrap the headphones around your arm and measure it that way. From that, I thought a fake iPhone rumor about it would be a funny idea.”
So the biometric EarPods were born. The silly thing is Apple already has patented technology to its name that basically describes the same thing – headphones capable of sensing the user’s pulse / heart rate.
Coupled with the fact that the company has embarked on a new hiring spree to get new medical experts on its wearables team, the rumor not only seemed plausible, but probable. Half of the tech sites around the world picked up the story (including ourselves) and regarded it as a very timely leak. Few bothered to question its veracity.
The author admits that, when he saw how things were escalating, the first thing he felt was fear.
“I was scared that coming clean about it will piss a lot of people off and I’ll just get hate tweets and mail forever. Scared I’ll be known as that [expletive] that likes to trick blogs in to publishing BS. I instantly had that guilty chill, had it is still with me now and is probably what is making want to write this and not just try and forget about it.”
Full post over at http://earpodsecret.tumblr.com/post/84812960647/sorry.