“The lawyers are the people who are supposed to be saying no when something crosses a line, and they aren’t even failing that duty—they are actively encouraging this stuff,” said John Newman, a law professor at the University of Miami and a former FTC deputy director. “That just seems to have created, or at least contributed to, a culture of what—if they weren’t our crown jewel tech companies—I think we would call a culture of lawlessness.”
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In Apple’s case, U.S. District Judge Yvonne Gonzalez Rogers wrote late last month that about half of the tens of thousands of documents the company claimed were privileged were later downgraded in the midst of extra scrutiny. She concluded it resulted in delay for the legal proceedings and “that delay equaled profits” for the iPhone maker. (For its part, Apple disagrees and plans to appeal.)
Apple plans to mostly stop announcing new features more than a few months before they are ready to launch, according to Bloomberg's Mark Gurman and Drake Bennett.
Ford tells PEOPLE he didn’t know Fox “very well” before he joined the Shrinking cast, but he has had the opportunity to meet him a few times throughout the years.
“His willingness to be part of our show is a great source of inspiration and gives us a real purpose,” Ford tells PEOPLE. “It's not just us coming together, two actors. There's a story to tell, and our commitment to the story is what joins us together. I appreciate his willingness to be a part of the show.”
Obviously I have no idea what is going on inside Apple, but it seems to me there once was an era at Apple when the design team was king, and that led to the butterfly keyboard and trash-can Mac Pro.
I hope Apple learnt its lessons, and not allow any one particular team -- say marketing -- to win all arguments above all else.
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