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El Reg reports:
Apple has gone full swivel-eyed, control-freak crazy on its own employees with a demented internal memo decrying information leaks.
"In 2017, Apple caught 29 leakers. 12 of those were arrested", says the terror missive from Cupertino, ironically leaked to Bloomberg. "Among those were Apple employees, contractors and some partners in Apple's supply chain."
It then threatens long-lasting harm to anyone stupid enough to let anyone know anything about its products before, you know, it launches them and tries to sell as many as humanely possible.
"These people not only lose their jobs, they can face extreme difficulty finding employment elsewhere", the letter rants.
[...] "Leakers do not simply lose their jobs at Apple. In some cases, they face jail time and massive fines for network intrusion and theft of trade secrets both classified as federal crimes."
What a lovely company.
Unless you're the FCC.
(Score: 3, Interesting) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday April 14 2018, @08:33PM (2 children)
I said for years. MS did not learn its ways from no one. They copied it from Apple and executed on it better for a long time. Apple has pretty much always been this way since woz left. They build closed source eco systems that are 'better than everyone else'. They went from cool computer to hack on (apple 2) to do not dare to even think about opening this box up. They did it with odd shaped screws and stickers to discourage it at first. One of the few lessons it took MS awhile to learn. That they treat their employees this way is no surprise. Jobs loved the idea of 'one more thing' zinnger. It works but ONLY works if no one talks. So they have created a system of fear and persuasion to make sure that zinnger continues to work. Their last innovative product was the iPad/iPhone. They have just been refining it since. It is wildly successful for them. But innovation is not something I would associate with Apple anymore. Refinement maybe but not innovation.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday April 14 2018, @10:19PM (1 child)
They never really innovated, they just polished. I guess you can call that innovation if you want, but personally I found their products to simply be a combination of using good hardware and designing ooh-shiny interfaces. Oh yeah, and a fuck load of marketing to appear "elite". I mean why else would average people take iphones as a status symbol?
(Score: 1) by Ethanol-fueled on Sunday April 15 2018, @01:41AM
Oh, they innovated all right. The innovated the no-button mouse. If Steve Jobs weren't already dead I would have hung him with one.