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ThomasVeil — Sat, 19 May 2012 17:44:50 -0000

That sounds absolutely horrifying! Crazy that people actually are willing to work there - for nothing but the chance to create shiny little electronics.

And it is always stunning to me how much organizations mirror their founder's personality. Scientology is exactly as psychopathic, greedy, absurd and paranoid as Ron Hubbard.... oh, and I can pretty much say just that about Apple and Steve Jobs - just add perfectionism.

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Maz Here — Wed, 16 May 2012 14:37:05 -0000

I think the writer is an Android Lover.... Comparing Apple negatively.... If that was so, APPLE would not be the No.1 company having the strongest culture according to Forbes Magazine... !

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Anthony — Fri, 23 Mar 2012 06:16:32 -0000

Personally, I don't want to know how or why Apple does what it does. All I want as a consumer is wonderful, paradigm-defying products to keep rolling out of Cupertino. However they manage, it must be working for them, since they now have more money than most small countries. Steve Jobs accomplished something that very few CEOs do - he instilled his company not only with a successful work ethic, but with a bit of his own eccentric personality. Seriously, re-read this article and replace the references to Apple as a company with "Steve Jobs". By most accounts, he was secretive, paranoid, distant and detached with outsiders and almost hostile to insiders. And yet, Apple thrives.

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jmrowland — Fri, 03 Feb 2012 15:11:11 -0000

I agree.

"The business world keeps nattering on about the importance of corporate transparency, yet the most successful company in the world is beyond opaque."

This is the difference (and rightfully so) between transparency in a company's financial dealings, and opacity regarding its intellectual property.

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searchengineman — Wed, 25 Jan 2012 17:43:15 -0000

What kind of monster...would plant agents in the company bar? Apple represents everything thats wrong with companies. Shiny Outsides - Rotten Core in the middle. If running your company like a North Korean Gulag to make the best product is considered the Bar.. Apple has to purge the poison that was Steve Jobs management style... The Wizard of Oz, didn't have a torture chamber behind the screen. Mr Burns treats his nuclear employees with more respect. I hope apple can make life more liveable for its employees..

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$4031331 — Wed, 25 Jan 2012 16:16:15 -0000

Obviously you are much better than Apple to criticize it so much. Obviously you can make a better product that more people want. Obviously, you are not somebody that craves attention and hates people and companies that are wildly more popular and loved than you will ever be in your wildest dreams.

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$4031331 — Wed, 25 Jan 2012 16:14:15 -0000

This is the dumbest article I have ever read. In order for any company to thrive, it needs to protect its strategies from its competitors. That is why nearly all companies have confidentiality agreements. The larger and more innovative a company is, the more important it is to protect its strategy and business secrets. Any child or idiot knows this as a matter of common sense. Why the author of this article feels that he or anyone else should have some sense of entitlement beyond a need-to-know basis is incredible. Maybe some people just have to have the gossip, just have to be on the in, just can't focus on their own work and needs to be an interfering busy-body. It is exactly because of these sorts of busybodies that companies like Apple need to build walls and frost their windows: Because there are some people that just love to pry, and it's also these same complaining morons with an insecurity complex and fragile ego that the company will unwittingly offend at some point in time, and who will then take the companies secrets directly to their competitor. Why CNN would publish garbage like this is beyond me. It pisses me off just knowing that there are morons who have the audacity to think they are entitled to other people's secrets.

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Guest — Tue, 24 Jan 2012 01:27:11 -0000

Possibly the most imbecilic comment in history. What a clueless, losing, Wintard fanboy you are.

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YouAreNotAScreenName — Mon, 23 Jan 2012 21:04:05 -0000

epic fail, lrn2history. it will assist in removing the clueless.bat trojan from the hippocampal region of your prefrontal cortex. and no, i'm not your personal google.

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Error601 — Sun, 22 Jan 2012 20:30:01 -0000

If you're too cool for capital letters, you're obviously too cool to use Apple's products. So many trolls, so little time.

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Error601 — Sun, 22 Jan 2012 20:23:08 -0000

Troll much? Flash is dead. Shockwave? What's that?

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donoevel — Sun, 22 Jan 2012 12:20:57 -0000

Wow, haters love to hate. They'll hate anything and everything because they're miserable little beings. I my self have been a Mac user since 1987 because everything else on the market (PC's) sucked. Call me a fanboy if you like but I can say with confidence Apple always lead th market with superior products And superior customer service. Have you haters ever walked into a Apple store and gone to the Genius bar for help? (first make an appointment online) The staff will do everything possible to correct the problem and if it's hardware they have the best exchange program even if the product is past warranty. I work in the entertainment industry and let me tell you what goes on at Apple is no different then in any busness and creative environment where successful products and services are produce. Why does anyone need to know more the what they are working on? Curiosity I guess? Remember the old proverb "curiosity killed the cat", the cat in this case meaning your organization. All you lackies who sit in your mom's basement all day and night because you have no life can hate all you want, that's transparent enough to everyone reading your posts!

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Alex Lubosh — Sun, 22 Jan 2012 04:02:10 -0000

How many other secrets are coming? The more we depart from Steve Jobs' epoch, the more we'll be able to learn about the company we all are so curious about

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Craig Cooper — Sat, 21 Jan 2012 22:12:12 -0000

Only your iPhony paints you into that silly corner!

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Craig Cooper — Sat, 21 Jan 2012 22:10:37 -0000

Apple is beyond a cult. And as far as innovation goes, Apple hasn't got an original idea in it's collective brain. They poach ideas from others, slap it in a pretty package, make sure it lasts 3 days beyond the warranty, cripple the device so only the Cupertino minions can control the stupid piece of crap and then laugh all the way to the off-shore bank! Quick Time slows your machine down. iTunes is a piece of shiite. iDevices are jokes, as they can't do Flash or Shockwave; thanks to the pissing match between Jobs and Adobe.... Hmmmm, a 700 dollar piece of trash that can't answer calls, can't surf the net, and can't play all your music! But, look how pretty it is! Look how pretty it's 3.5" puny screen is.... Innovation, indeed!

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Guest — Sat, 21 Jan 2012 11:56:39 -0000

What are you rambling about? Apple does not sit back and wait to copy others, others wait and copy them. For examples, IBM PC was a copy of Apple II, Windows is a (horrible) copy of Mac OS, Zune was a pathetic copy of iPod. But Google copies Apple too--See Android (blatant rip off of iPhone). And they tried to copy iPad, but so far, nothing has stuck to the frige.

There is more to this, just stating some obvious facts, but it's time for you to take your meds.

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Brian Joy — Fri, 20 Jan 2012 07:19:54 -0000

Are you using auto-correct with your spellchecker?

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YouAreNotAScreenName — Fri, 20 Jan 2012 07:01:05 -0000

and then, as if on cue, a faithful servant arrives to sing dear leader's praises and cast an addle-minded aspersion upon the infidel.

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Bong Toker — Thu, 19 Jan 2012 15:02:59 -0000

so apple is a cult?

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disqus_xIHQf39J2o — Thu, 19 Jan 2012 09:37:45 -0000

The Microsoft anti-Apple propaganda machine squeezes off another one............. do you know anyone who works at Apple? I know plenty of them, and the article absolutely NAILED what every one of them has said about the company.

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Guest — Thu, 19 Jan 2012 09:28:22 -0000

The entire contents of a book can't be obvious to anyone. I could say you have duplicity and innovation backwards, but that would really be stating the obvious.

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BenGleck — Thu, 19 Jan 2012 05:56:41 -0000

Freethinkers aren't welcome at Apple? No wonder all their products are so derivative.

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YouAreNotAScreenName — Thu, 19 Jan 2012 04:19:03 -0000

the contents of lashinsky's book have long since been obvious to anyone with two technologically literate brain cells to rub together.

from its very inception, apple inc. has remained the most blatantly duplicitous company on the face of the earth. its worshippers seem utterly clueless to degrees that would frighten even orwell, particularly in regards to their oft cited malarkey about gates and everyone else pilfering jobs' so called innovative ideas, when in fact apple's success was always predicated on previously existing products created by the likes of ibm, xerox, usr, amstrad, palm, lg, rim, nokia, and ironically, microsoft and android. jobs was nothing more than a glorified carnival barker who's only true innovation was repeatedly one-upping his own hypocrisy.

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TY09 — Thu, 19 Jan 2012 03:29:12 -0000

Jobs sneered at netbooks because they were exactly what they were - underpowered laptops. Where are netbooks today? People dumped them for laptops. The Air was not a response to the netbook. It was under development long before netbooks hit the scene.

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TY09 — Thu, 19 Jan 2012 03:20:34 -0000

Having a background in product design and packaging, it is really cool to see your product on store shelves, on bus wraps, on billboards and in TV commercials. You may get paid the same as someone running a tube sock department in a factory somewhere, but the idea that you are creating something that people get excited about makes you want to work your tail off creating more cool stuff. As long as you are doing what you enjoy and are good at, who cares what some other department is doing?

To me it is like being in a successful band. If someone doesn't have the chops, the drive, and the energy to make it to the top, they belong in some other band where they don't make much money but they get free beer. Nothing personal, but today's American work ethic is not about excellence but about punching a clock, going home and watching TV. Those who work in an atmosphere in which excellence is the standard and in which they can see the impact of this excellence on millions of people should consider themselves lucky.