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The Forbidden Apple: NY Times Reports on Company Secrecy

Written on June 24, 2009 by Charles Jade and 7 people have commented

The New York Times has a feature article on Apple corporate culture and secrecy that is both fascinating and a little disturbing. It also may raise questions about how Apple handled the disclosure of Steve Jobs’ illness.
Regarding corporate culture, the New York Times illustrates just how secretive Apple can be, describing multiple checkpoints for those [...]

Apple Loosening Muzzles?

Written on October 07, 2008 by Darrell Etherington and 1 person has commented

One of the inaugural stories on just-launched news site The Daily Beast is a column by the founder and former editor of Mac news and rumors site Think Secret, Nicholas Ciarelli.  The article suggests that Apple is relaxing its notoriously strict veil of secrecy.  Think Secret was shuttered in 2007 because of a suit [...]