“Like me, many of you probably read Jacqui Cheng’s article on Ars Technica, ‘Does Apple really assign engineers to ‘fake’ projects as a loyalty test?‘ Her article was a response — a refutation, really — of a meme that wouldn’t seem to die,” Don Melton blogs.
“The conclusion to the article is, of course, ‘no,’ Apple doesn’t do that,” Melton reports. “And I can also confirm that’s the case. As a manager and then director at Apple for over 10 years, I never once assigned anyone to a fake project. And loyalty tests? I never heard of either practice there.”
Melton writes, “So, how do silly ideas like this stay alive? It’s because many don’t understand — even at a basic level – how Apple works.”
Read more in the full article here.
[Thanks to MacDailyNews Reader “Jax44” for the heads up.]
And they don’t care to understand, either—such memes are driven by a combination of morbid fascination, love of malicious fun, envy of others’ success, and corporate manipulation. The political landscape has even more of them than technology.
You are just awesome. I love reading your posts.
Once again, another classy well worded post. Your written skills and insightful comments make up for most of the other foul posts. Thanks.
Yay! Two classy posts; and no stupid political intrusions. Keep it going!
It would appear from the straw poll that eye-gouging, creative name-calling, bullying, and other forms of anonymous violence are more popular than light-hearted, reasoned discourse. Duly noted, assholes. I was wearying of these kid gloves, anyway.
Oh please, Queen Hannah, say it isn’t so! How many kids did it take to make your new gloves? I’d wondered about the missing children around here lately.
Worth reading the linked article.
MDN, keep posting more stories like this!
So was it just a rumor that Steve created a fake iPad project as a decoy for then Apple-BOD member (& then Google CEO) Eric Schmidt?
Yes, that is a great short brief to the point article. You would think that the concept is simple, and it is if your focus is on making insanely great products. If you are into if for the power, glory, market share, consumer gouge etc. well that’s a different story.