I had friends who worked on the initial iphone design, supply chain, software etc.. We would go to lunch fairly frequently - and jeasus those guys were all ext

I had friends who worked on the initial iphone design, supply chain, software etc.. We would go to lunch fairly frequently - and jeasus those guys were all extremely honorable of their NDA/secrecy - it was impressive. One of the guys moved to google and worked on some of their first mainboard designs - which was secret at the timew, and I only found out about it when I went to meet him for lunch and I saw a mainboard under his desk and said "ooh whats that!" he freaked out and we got out of there quick.... Some of the hardware at FB in ~2012/13 they designed was really awesome.... I always wonder what happens to these closed HW systems as they uplift/replace them over time. I am sure they are destroyed. Which sucks for many reasons. --- When we built Lucas' presidio campus and converged their DCs to that campus they through out tons of huge SGI boxes - and I was free to take some - but I didnt have any place to put it at the time - and I wish I would have figured that out more earnestly, as SGI always had beautiful cabinets.