Apple Adds Former Northrop Grumman CEO Ronald Sugar to Board of Directors

[cvaldes]

I agree, perhaps some people are not familiar with how much of an asset quality board members can be.

Correct.

There are a lot of readers in this forum who know zero about business.

 

[Mousse]

Two words: Government Contracts

One word: Skynet

Yes, Apple will be responsible for the creation of the T-100 terminator first seen in 1984. Talk about legacy software, the T-100 has Apple II code in its OS. Also, in the original version, the Terminator had a Mac OS style menu with a skull in place of the .

 

[Glideslope]

I knew it!!!

iStealth Baby!!!! Devices out of Transparent Aluminum.

 

[Glideslope]

Well, yesterday really was another "The day the earth stood still" day

However todays news sounds GREAT. Chief Engineer from Northrup Grumman coming to Apple. Grumman rumoured to be involved in Black Govnmt Projects,
who knows, perhaps we will see Free Energy MBA's and iPhones with Anty Gravity
motors. Sounds cool to me


MBP 15" 2.66 MHz 320GB; iphone4 16 GB, (black)

Cooler than "Cool". Just wait.

 

[E.Lizardo]

As long as it helps head Apple in the right direction, it sounds good.

Are you saying they are going in the wrong direction now?

 

[BrotherBeagle]

As a couple of others have noted; maybe this will indicate a change in Apple's lackluster approach to enterprise needs.

Considering his background, it can't hurt.

 

[pyramis]

Gee, great. Former CEO of one of the worst chunks of the corporate-military complex now wielding direct decision influence over our technology. It seems like Jobs has lost every last ounce of counterculture that drove him when he started Apple.

This significantly raises the probability of Apple technology making its way into defense and warfare.

If the 1984 commercial was already considered ironic, now it's doing the backstroke in a swimming pool of creamed irony.

 

[e-coli]

iCruise (missile)

 

[Rodimus Prime]

Sweet!

If anyone is voting negative on this, it is just sour grapes.

I would call negative on it because CEO and former CEO on boards is how we got this massively over compenation pay to CEO going. They all have a hand in how eachother are paid.

 

[jabbott]

I did my internship there. It was horrid. I currently work with a former manager from Northrop (when it was TRW) and he said getting out there was the best thing he ever did.

I know the feeling. I've worked at all of the top three defense contractors, and I've never seen employees threatening to call (or actually calling) the Department of Defense Fraud and Waste Hotline except at Northrop Grumman. Is this what we can expect from Apple in the future?