Comments on: Apple Lockdown: Fact or Fiction?

By: Karim

Karim — Fri, 26 Mar 2010 11:10:52 +0000

Just to add a bit of rant to the ‘Nazi’ comparison, check out:

http://geekcomforts.com/2010/03/apple-nazis-in-disguise/

By: iheartpie

iheartpie — Tue, 26 Jan 2010 15:47:15 +0000

you win :)

By: chano

chano — Sun, 20 Dec 2009 18:33:27 +0000

In my experience, most companies treat their staff pretty well. Apple must treat their staff very well because the grapevine is ultra positive, they are rated v high as an employer and the queue of people wanting to work there would reduce worldwide unemployment by about 1% if they could all get the jobs they want. So go figure. Jesus Diaz has to be renamed Richard HeadPantsonFire. Anyone who disseminates his brand of bullshit is a simple hit-whore who knows no better.

By: Eideard

Eideard — Sun, 20 Dec 2009 15:41:07 +0000

Stopped reading Gizmodo a long time ago. Some of my fellow bloggers read it – we rarely use it as a reliable resource for anything other than press releases with the photos posted large enough size for re-use.

Their opinion/research pieces are sophomoric and irrelevant to hi-tech business. More psychologizing than sensible.

By: Jojo

Jojo — Sat, 19 Dec 2009 23:42:00 +0000

For those of you who don’t get it, using the term Nazis was most likely a deliberate exaggeration on the part of the author. I don’t understand how people can defend actions like this, from any company. Why do so many people seem to be ok with allowing corporations to erode at our freedoms? Sure, if you don’t like it, you don’t have to work there, but how long until all companies treat their employees this way? If or when this happens, what will our choices be then? Accept it or go hungry and homeless?

By: chano

chano — Fri, 18 Dec 2009 20:39:39 +0000

Any company that innovates consistently and superbly well into a highly competitive market has to be ultra-secretive. And even a daring leakball has to acknowledge that. Even senior people at Apple acknowledge that and openly go on to explain why this is necessary. Apple is the leading innovator in the world. Apple is the most copied org in the world. In order to survive in their markets; in order to even earn the rightfully deserved profits from their innovation investments, secrecy is paramount. There are thousands of competitors who would pay well for advance information on some new development to come from Apple. Such advance info buys these grubbers (the opposite of innovators) the time to produce copies to launch while the hype (which belongs to Apple after all) is at max strength. These grubbers can even sometimes beat Apple to an announcement, and even stage a competitive launch with a poor copy which will sell to bozos nevertheless.
More importantly, leaked information will dilute the impact of Apple’s own announcements into that space, creating an anti-climax instead of the surprise and delight that Apple owns the right to after all their investment efforts. Instead there may only be the disappoint of not exceeding the leaked expectations. A delightful surprise can turn into a deadly yawn.
If an employee seeks to break simple, deserved, good faith with Apple as his employer, and to leak highly sensitive new product information, it is a breach of contract, a breach of NDA terms and a breach of plain decent loyalty. Thousands of jobs depend on the continued success of an enterprise like Apple. Thousands of mortgages are paid on time each month because of that dependable paycheck which arises from continued success. There is so much riding on keeping product details secret until it is time to announce them, that to break that needed secrecy out of disloyalty, for revenge or for personal undeserved gain, is just plain wrong. It shows a callous disregard for deserved corporate success, it condones the stealing of other people’s rights over their ideas and property, it exposes companies like Apple to loss of success, potential failure and places the jobs of good, imaginative, hard-working people at risk.
Castrate the bastards.
Shoot even the wannabe-ubercool bloggers like Gruber and Diaz, who don’t know any better and who will lie shamelessly or, worse still expose anyone’s confidential intellectual property for a few hits just so he can pretend that ‘Gruba coulda beena contenda’, or that ‘Jesus lives’.
These are loser-whores who just want to be noticed and they will spill the beans on their mothers for a single hit. Without such tactics, they have little of any originality to contribute and their followers are just too dumb to see the difference.
On second thoughts – no need to castrate such bozos. They don’t have balls. Daring Fire..s anyone?

By: Sadie

Sadie — Fri, 18 Dec 2009 20:37:54 +0000

“What’s described is effectively a lockdown. Employees are forced to remain at their desks. Their cellphones are collected, and anyone needing to contact the outside is monitored. Interviews are done. NDAs are signed. If security finds the suspected leaker, and “they usually do,” the person is fired after questioning. Of the questioning itself, “Tom” has no first-hand experience.”

How reminiscent of the Third Reich. Thanks to Diaz’ asininity, Gizmodo is no longer bookmarked on my iPhone.

By: andelsboligtilsalg

andelsboligtilsalg — Fri, 18 Dec 2009 09:22:12 +0000

Jesus at Gizmodo is a complete deuchebag. I cant believe that they actually hired him, and even worse allows him to write up fictional stories over and over again. But a fictional story is better than nothing i guess.

By: Dave

Dave — Fri, 18 Dec 2009 02:27:41 +0000

Both Jesus of Gizmodo and Gismodo need to be sued for major malicious slander

By: Zoran

Zoran — Fri, 18 Dec 2009 02:04:41 +0000

The Nazi analogies seem to be trendy recently… it’s completely stupid, at all levels. I thought Nazis were more into killing people. Is that those dummies at gizmodo are implying? That Apple is actually summarily killing/executing its employees?

Some people are absolutely clueless when it comes to knowing history…