Not surprising....
When I was involved in new product testing (not at Apple) it was done in a completely separate building than our usual work:
You had to have special access card keys. Your regular one wouldn't cut it.
Any of the new products under development were in rooms with no windows so casual passersby couldn't see anything from the road.
There were some other interesting things about the building itself that would make it hard for someone with electronic eavesdropping devices to spy on us.
And believe me, people in the employ of competitors were caught dumpster diving out back but anything of consequence was very well shredded prior to disposal. Anything really hot or awkward to dispose of was kept in a special garbage room and wasn't truly disposed of until the product was released.
Every product had a product name associated with the development so the marketing name wasn't leaked prior to release.
There were some other cool things that I can't talk about but I'd wager Apple goes way farther than the business I was involved in.
I heard about a competitor that shredded confidential documents and disposed of them in rancid stinking reddi whip to discourage dumpster diving. Don't know how true that is or not but imagine the reaction of the dumpster divee!
When I was involved in new product testing (not at Apple) it was done in a completely separate building than our usual work:
You had to have special access card keys. Your regular one wouldn't cut it.
Any of the new products under development were in rooms with no windows so casual passersby couldn't see anything from the road.
There were some other interesting things about the building itself that would make it hard for someone with electronic eavesdropping devices to spy on us.
And believe me, people in the employ of competitors were caught dumpster diving out back but anything of consequence was very well shredded prior to disposal. Anything really hot or awkward to dispose of was kept in a special garbage room and wasn't truly disposed of until the product was released.
Every product had a product name associated with the development so the marketing name wasn't leaked prior to release.
There were some other cool things that I can't talk about but I'd wager Apple goes way farther than the business I was involved in.
I heard about a competitor that shredded confidential documents and disposed of them in rancid stinking reddi whip to discourage dumpster diving. Don't know how true that is or not but imagine the reaction of the dumpster divee!
