Eh, it's just another form of blog at this point. Not the greatest for searching, but a valid medium for expression.

I think they might be suggesting that Scott may have specific exemption from Apple's PR policy (summary: "say nothing to anyone") to be allowed an independent public voice - particularly on a technical/engineering topic. Apple is not, so far as we know, currently developing orbital-class rocketry, but there's genuine potential for product topic overlap in Project Titan vs Tesla and perhaps more besides.

I would not be at all surprised if there's a List Of Things Apple PR Hereby Politely Requests That Scott Doesn't Mention.

When I was at AWS I was similarly forbidden from mentioning anything to do with video games to just about anybody, despite not having anything to do with video games myself, and many other topics besides the obvious (e.g. "don't disclose EC2/S3 capacity numbers"[1], "don't reveal how Glacier works"[2]), and in fact there was a whole programme of PR training and tiered permission to speak at conferences or to the press/analysts that boiled down, mostly, to knowing what you could and couldn't say, and how diplomatically you parried questions on the latter.

Either that or Terry Pratchett's law of rewritten rules applies.

[1] no-one would believe me anyway

[2] it's a massively redundant array of vinyl records

It's also great self-marketing.

He started out (or at least found fame) doing Kerbal Space Program tutorials and play throughs, that's how I first came across him. He's also a pro DJ with an awe inspiring music collection and knowledge of music, though I'm not sure how much of that he still does. Oh, and he's also a fully qualified Astrophysicist and has worked in the field.

I'm shocked that I'm the last person to know this. I didn't know I could be more impressed with him.

Isn't he an astronomer / astrophysicist? You must be talking about another Scott Manley.

Nope, same guy. Scott Manley has a degree in astrophysics (I think) and worked as an astronomer for a while, then got a job coding at Apple. He's a smart guy

Technically he got a job at a startup, which was then bought by Apple.

Yeah, I looked him up on Wikipedia, looks like I got the wrong impression from his videos. Smart guy indeed!