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This blog entry doesn't add any value, can we change the link to the Quora response[0] instead? [0] https://www.quora.com/What-was-it-like-working-on-the-origi

This blog entry doesn't add any value, can we change the link to the Quora response[0] instead? [0] https://www.quora.com/What-was-it-like-working-on-the-original-iPhone-project-codenamed-Project-Purple/answer/Terry-Lambert https://www.quora.com/What-was-it-like-working-on-the-origin...

rms_returns 10y ago
Let me put it this way, Apple is all high on secrecy stuff and have these black cloths, NDA and every other secretive procedure that a developer has to go through. OTOH, Android OEMs like Samsung, HTC, etc. don't do any of that and just use pure open source android, and yet they too manage to sell their phones like hot cakes exactly like Apple!
- SixSigma 10y ago
  Maybe Apple need all that stuff in order to sell stuff like Android.
ralfd 10y ago
Wow, the Quora reads very different to me. Article: "See the crazy amount of secrecy." Quora post: "I was read in informally on the project, sometimes you have to wing it to get any work done."
dvdhnt 10y ago
Oh wow, didn't see that before I posted the 9to5 link. I wish it would let me change it.
dang 10y ago
Absolutely. Changed from https://9to5mac.com/2016/12/27/terry-lambert-iphone-secrecy-project-purple/ https://9to5mac.com/2016/12/27/terry-lambert-iphone-secrecy-....
therein 10y ago
> P.S.: if you care, you can pretty much figure out what any secret project is. And no, I’m not going to disclose how you do it, but really? Trivially easy. Let me reveal how... and you won't believe how simple it is. You Google it. Once you know the codename, the whole security theatre comes to an end for the non indoctrinated because the moment you Google "<codename> apple project", you see a bunch of results from obscure websites. You click on them and shit, they are accurate leaks. Same goes for internal utilities as well. Google "<internal utility name> apple" and you sometimes even get a link to a DMG. So basically Apple's obsession with secrecy is nothing more than security theatre causing inefficiencies within the company. The leaks are mostly from Chinese domains which makes me thing they happen from the manufacturing side of the business.

rms_returns 10y ago

Let me put it this way, Apple is all high on secrecy stuff and have these black cloths, NDA and every other secretive procedure that a developer has to go through. OTOH, Android OEMs like Samsung, HTC, etc. don't do any of that and just use pure open source android, and yet they too manage to sell their phones like hot cakes exactly like Apple!

SixSigma 10y ago
Maybe Apple need all that stuff in order to sell stuff like Android.

ralfd 10y ago

Wow, the Quora reads very different to me. Article: "See the crazy amount of secrecy." Quora post: "I was read in informally on the project, sometimes you have to wing it to get any work done."

dvdhnt 10y ago

Oh wow, didn't see that before I posted the 9to5 link. I wish it would let me change it.

dang 10y ago

Absolutely. Changed from https://9to5mac.com/2016/12/27/terry-lambert-iphone-secrecy-project-purple/ https://9to5mac.com/2016/12/27/terry-lambert-iphone-secrecy-....

therein 10y ago

> P.S.: if you care, you can pretty much figure out what any secret project is. And no, I’m not going to disclose how you do it, but really? Trivially easy. Let me reveal how... and you won't believe how simple it is. You Google it. Once you know the codename, the whole security theatre comes to an end for the non indoctrinated because the moment you Google "<codename> apple project", you see a bunch of results from obscure websites. You click on them and shit, they are accurate leaks. Same goes for internal utilities as well. Google "<internal utility name> apple" and you sometimes even get a link to a DMG. So basically Apple's obsession with secrecy is nothing more than security theatre causing inefficiencies within the company. The leaks are mostly from Chinese domains which makes me thing they happen from the manufacturing side of the business.