how Apple keeps secrets, and since the room without any windows, it’s amazing, how come the iPhone 5 prototype was lost so lamely?, and how come the iPhone 4 prototype was lost?
He told a tale about the absurd steps he and his team went through to get an iPad before the product’s launch. Here’s the story:
I was probably the sixth person to get an iPad.
We got two of them flown out.
The criteria was that we had to have a room with no windows. They changed the locks on the door.
Three developers and I were the only people allowed to go in the room. Apple needed the names and social security numbers of the people who had access.
Apple needed to be able to drill a hole in the desk and chain the devices to (sic) desk. They used those bicycle cables.
They had these custom frames built around them so we couldn’t even tell what the iPads looked like. We could plug into them so we could code to them and we could touch the screen and play with that, but we couldn’t see the form factor.
Then they took pictures of the wood grain. If any pictures leaked out, they could trace it back to which desk they came from.
I wasn’t allowed to tell our CEO. I wasn’t allowed to tell anybody anything about what we were doing. I couldn’t even tell my wife. She was like, “You’re going to get fired if this doesn’t work.â€
I hadn’t thought about that but she was probably right.Luckily, it worked out very well.
Those security measures didn’t manage to keep several photos of the original iPad from leaking the night before its launch.
Anyways, I’m personally impressed with how Apple protects its products, what do you guys think?
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