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A comment on Forbidden Fruit - Microsoft Workers Hide Their iPhones.

Re:Forbidden Fruit - Microsoft Workers Hide Their iPhones by jacquesm on Saturday March 13, 2010 @06:56AM (#1188823)
Leaders are often insulated from reality by people around them, especially if they have a penchant for violent outbursts.

See the 'chair' incident and the movie 'Der Untergang'.

I'm sure Jobs and others in the industry have similar reality distortion fields around them.

But I highly doubt that at the lower levels in the microsoft organization they'd be this myopic, and a bunch of anecdotes here and elsewhere about microsoft employees owning hardware produced by competitors and displaying them openly at work seems to confirm that doubt.

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Re:Forbidden Fruit - Microsoft Workers Hide Their iPhones by hga on Saturday March 13, 2010 @09:52AM (#1188950)
A note for those of us who perhaps know "unter" but not "untergang": the official movie title English translation of Der Untergang is Downfall. My G<->E dictionary suggests setting, sinking, fig. ruin.
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