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Secrecy has plenty of benefits, like keeping plans secret from competitors, dominating the news cycle, and delighting customers. None of those things speak to
by Eric_WVGG 10y ago
Secrecy has plenty of benefits, like keeping plans secret from competitors, dominating the news cycle, and delighting customers.
None of those things speak to a hemorrhaging segment of users whose needs are performance and expandability.
It's a show of strength for the modern era of Apple that they are willing to switch strategies when necessary.
- ThomPete 10y agoIf they were really serious they would make an open letter or they would write out to their Mac Pro users personally. That way their "openness" would actually make sense and they would show they really cared. Pushing this to a little elite group of bloggers is just an amateurish move on Apples part.
- Eric_WVGG 10y agoWell now we're talking about subjective opinion. To me, press releases and corporate double-speak are petulant. Actual engineers speaking frankly to journalists, to me, is the height of professionalism.
- ThomPete 10y agoAll this is subjective. When Jobs wrote an open letter about not supporting flash that wasnt a press release that was him taking responsibility and adressing something heads on. Making it engineers job to adress a leadership issue is exactly the wrong kind of frank.