A few anecdotes about the secrecy introduced at Apple have been published by
the author of "Inside Apple" on sale next week.
Adam Lashinsky discusses some original practices, such as when any new project
starts, and others who may ring familiar to some readers as working in
companies governed by strict rules of confidentiality.
The author, who has met with former Apple employees, for example, says that
some have seen a sudden one day be erected walls to their floor and doors put
"windows were pacified and some pieces had none”. New access rules are
enacted, and nothing enters or leaves the room without good reason. A rule of
silence that covers course and especially outside the workplace. Friends and
family are also kept in the dark. Phill Schiller, the head of marketing, said
subject themselves to the discipline with his children while Apple was working
on his future gadgets.
