sounds like he was under NDA and let his daughter take a vid of him demoing the unreleased iphone.
while I feel for him and his family, the dude should definitely have known better. as someone who deals with NDAs often enough, you have to understand that the zero tolerance is spelled out for you contractually. there's no mistake that you know what you are and are not allowed to do. the impacts that her little video did absolutely impacted apple's future sales in some way.
I'm not sure I understand you...