Apple’s Plumbing Problem Solution Ping!
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Posted on 04/13/2018 2:03:11 PM PDT by Red Badger
Apple has long been obsessed with secrecy, but a new memo seems to take it to the next level. Bloomberg’s Mark Gurman reports on a memo recently sent to all Apple employees stating that 29 Apple people were caught leaking secrets about planned products last year, and 12 of them were arrested. The memo describes in stark terms the implications for employees who leak and get caught: “These people not only lose their jobs, they can face extreme difficulty finding employment elsewhere,” according to the memo, which quotes product marketing executive Greg Joswiak. The memo lays out examples of times when whole product announcements have been spoiled by leaks to the media. The main facts about the iPhone X and the Apple Watch 3 had been leaked to the media before the splashy launch event, leaving Apple executives to go through the motions of delivering big surprises from the stage. Apple says leaked information can depress sales of existing product models, and give competitors more time to respond to features coming in future models. “We want the chance to tell our customers why the product is great, and not have that done poorly by someone else,” Joswiak wrote in the memo.
Bloomberg’s Gurman is himself one of the main media beneficiaries of leaks from Apple employees. But that’s not where all the leaks come from. Many come from people at Apple’s suppliers who know the company’s plans–and some of them get paid to tell what they know.
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No, they don’t. There is zero evidence Apple does any such thing. . . In fact Apple’s used devices have the best second-hand market of all such devices in the world, if their performance was "degraded" as you claim, that certainly would not be the case.
Can you imagine the class action lawsuits if it were true considering the number filed about Apple slowing down devices to keep them running because their OLD BATTERIES were degraded and were likely to spontaneously and unexpectedly shut down if allowed to keep running at full speed. . . but the device would return to full speed once the depleted battery was replaced with a new one?
That spontaneous shut down in depleted batteries hits all makes of phones, but only Apple tried to prevent the shut down, keeping the phone working as a phone, instead of just allowing it to brick at inconvenient and/or unsafe times.
That’s what you were hearing rumors about. . . And the propaganda from competitors. Apple products last and work far longer than the competitors products.
If they were top secret, they'd be hidden in her bras. And what is the FBI doing pulling down her drawers? They should be looking for secrets hidden in Hillary's pants, but they won't go there.
Ummm, would you???
What bothers me is that federal law enforcement works for them. Do you think a guy would be arrested for leaking memos from Joe Smith’s Apple Cannery? The cops would laugh and tell them it’s a civil matter. But when some college kid downloads 3 songs off somebody’s FTP site with the login feature accidentally turned off or is caught with a burned Star Wars DVD at the airport, he gets a visit from the mod squad and winds up making a house payment to them every month for a decade or so. That isn’t right. It shows that people in govt. are being bribed hard. I wonder what it costs to get the FBI on your payroll as an enforcer.
I’m with you on that. I’ve had my Android phone (Galaxy S7) for 2 years and it works just as well as the day I got it. The battery still mysteriously stays charged and I get about 30 hours between recharge. You’re not going to get that out of an Apple. Spreading software that bogs down system performance and burns battery is outright malware, wonder why they’re not being prosecuted for that? Oh, that’s right, the FBI works for them.
Now that’s real funny right there!
Thanks.
There’s an unreal amount of industrial espionage going on in Silicon Valley.
Somebody is leaking about the leaking................
Nothing new. Always has been................
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