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I don't see what so special about apple. A lot of entities manage to keep secrets very well. They use a mix of paying their employees well, having a company culture around innovation, a good security system, and contract promissing to sue you to death if you rat. Take the CNES (National Centre for Space Studies in europe): they have individual scanner gates at each entrances. You can't get in without your whole body…
I don't see what so special about apple. A lot of entities manage to keep secrets very well. They use a mix of paying their employees well, having a company culture around innovation, a good security system, and contract promissing to sue you to death if you rat. Take the CNES (National Centre for Space Studies in europe): they have individual scanner gates at each entrances. You can't get in without your whole body…
CNES isn’t working on consumer products used by billions of people, which where popular enough to generate a market for media publications devoted to only talk about them. The comparison is completely clueless. Where you to spill the beans on some new CNES innovation in a bar, the best you can aspire to is a “cool story bro” remark from some drunk fella sitting next to you. Try doing that when you’re an Apple enginee…
I don't see what so special about apple. A lot of entities manage to keep secrets very well. They use a mix of paying their employees well, having a company culture around innovation, a good security system, and contract promissing to sue you to death if you rat. Take the CNES (National Centre for Space Studies in europe): they have individual scanner gates at each entrances. You can't get in without your whole body…
CNES isn’t working on consumer products used by billions of people, which where popular enough to generate a market for media publications devoted to only talk about them. The comparison is completely clueless. Where you to spill the beans on some new CNES innovation in a bar, the best you can aspire to is a “cool story bro” remark from some drunk fella sitting next to you. Try doing that when you’re an Apple enginee…
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One good way in which they have become less secrecy-obsessed is that they're now doing public betas of their OSes.
This question has aged badly, Apple used to keep secrets really well, but now they're not doing so well. But I can't remember the last major product they had that wasn't leaked before it was officially announced. And their self-driving car project has been widely written about without even any product in sight. One good way in which they have become less secrecy-obsessed is that they're now doing public betas of thei…
I don't see what so special about apple. A lot of entities manage to keep secrets very well. They use a mix of paying their employees well, having a company culture around innovation, a good security system, and contract promissing to sue you to death if you rat. Take the CNES (National Centre for Space Studies in europe): they have individual scanner gates at each entrances. You can't get in without your whole body…
Apple makes mass market products by the zillions and has a long external supply chain. They can't put everyone in tubes.
Quite a few smaller companies there are the same way too. You very rarely hear about leaks coming from Retro Studios or Rare for example. Companies have definitely have a more secretive culture, and while it won't 100% stop leaks, it'll definitely keep them to the bare minimum.
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Apple makes mass market products by the zillions and has a long external supply chain. They can't put everyone in tubes.
I don't think making mass market products or having a long supply chain necessarily means you can't keep secrets. I mean, Nintendo seems pretty damn good at keeping their cards close to their chest, arguably even better than Apple in that sense, and they've got a decent supply chain and mass market products. Same goes with Valve. Quite a few smaller companies there are the same way too. You very rarely hear about lea…
This question has aged badly, Apple used to keep secrets really well, but now they're not doing so well. But I can't remember the last major product they had that wasn't leaked before it was officially announced. And their self-driving car project has been widely written about without even any product in sight. One good way in which they have become less secrecy-obsessed is that they're now doing public betas of thei…
I see, it was so secret that even Apple didn't know it was developing it.