[OSX-Users] About Steve Jobs

[Philip Boulain]

Some of you may find this interesting, even if it's a 
little.../enthusiastic/ at times*:

http://technology.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/tech_and_web/article6797859.ece

> A cult of corporate omerta — the mafia code of silence — is
> ruthlessly enforced, with employees sacked for leaks and careless
> talk. Executives feed deliberate misinformation into one part of the
> company so that any leak can be traced back to its source. Workers on
> sensitive projects have to pass through many layers of security. Once
> at their desks or benches, they are monitored by cameras and they
> must cover up devices with black cloaks and turn on red warning
> lights when they are uncovered. “The secrecy is beyond fastidious and
> is in fact insultingly petty and political,” says one employee on the
> anonymous corporate reporting site Glassdoor.com, “and often is an
> impediment to actually getting one’s work done.”

Phil
* Going from installing arbitrary software on your Mac to installing 
from a limited set on your iPhone is "easing off" on Jobs' locked-down 
philosophy? Okayyyyy...and then we get on to the ludicrous theories that 
Apple attracts: "my own view is that a Jobsless Apple will seek a merger 
with Google". "And, most importantly, Google is working on a computer 
operating system, also called Chrome, which may well be a very serious 
competitor for Mac OS X." If that were true, the only application people 
would ever run under OS X would be Safari.

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