Apple hires a Secret Police??

[computoman]

If this is in fact true, someone needs to show the Apple management the movie "Miracle on 34th street" . Guess I will never be working for the Apple. Retail establisment. Is this just a planted dirty tricks news story at xmas (news storygestapoism)?
http://www.theinquirer.net/inquirer/news/1566303/apple-hires-secret-police

[phatlip]

You don't honestly believe this, do you?

Stupid question. Of course you do.

[computoman]

As much less than honorable stunts as I have seen personally in the business world in the last five years, nothing would surprise me.

[phatlip]

This is just a ridiculous story. The only proof they have that any of this is true is from a guy named "Tom" who is likely fictitious.

LAME

[tokenuser]

There i a grain of truth in this - and that is often all that The Inq needs to write a story.

Apple are meticulous about controlling information about pre-releases, and plug leaks solidly.

Look at the iTablet/Newton 3 ... no product announcements from Apple, only rumours about the device in the press. Hell - Apple dont even acknowledge they ARE working on such a thing.

Companies seed fake images and altered/identifiable hardware all the time to trace the source of a leak - so none of that is particularly new or exciting information.

Something I find suspect about the story is that if you Google "facts" from the story you find a multitude of hits ... that all lead back to The Inq story. They *might* have broken the story, but I doubt it.

[gta_bmx]

There may be some truth to this story, but it sounds very heavily spun. Obviously the author has a bias against Apple and spun the subjective details/wording into making Apple look only slightly less controlling than the Nazi Gestapo. It sounds like the author learned some details of Apple's Store Operations Manual and spun it heavily.

If you ever read your co's Operations Manual, it usually sounds like you're working for the biggest tyrant on the planet, but that stuff is only in there to protect the co. in case there turns out to be a troublemaker working there.

[revision3fan]

The Nixon White house had "the plumbers" to stop the leaks.