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Enjoying the show, avoiding the flamethrower: life inside Apple (guardian.co.uk)
46 points by raju on Jan 2, 2009 | hide | past | favorite | 5 comments


He has a very calm & soothing tone of voice which, unfortunately, sets off all sorts of alarms in my head.


"... I never had Steve's flamethrower aimed at me, although I came close a couple of times; all in all, I was close to getting my butt fired three times – and all three times, I probably would have deserved it. I do know friends who did. It wasn't always pleasant ..."

Even if the authenticity of the article ( I put this down to the "Cult of Mac" ) is questioned you cannot deny the existence of the "Reality Distortion Field" ~ http://www.folklore.org/StoryView.py?project=Macintosh&s... You can read more here by Andy Hertzfeld & Co. ~ http://www.folklore.org/ProjectView.py?project=Macintosh&...


If I wanted to read another fluff piece about Apple I could've gone to wired.com


oh come on, it wasn't that bad. At least it wasn't as bad as that darth vader management secrets article that's also on the front page.


That was a parody. This appears to be real.




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