It's hard to say, because Apple is a huge corporation. It would be wrong for the takeaway to be "all of Apple is like this." But it should call into question "how much of Apple is like this?" and "how many more stories are there like this?" because I guarantee you that this author is not the only one who has experienced this at Apple, and there may be elements of its secrecy-obsessed, top-down culture that are common factors which contribute to it.

>it's too beyond the pale to be representative of Apple at large.

Why?

Because of a general understanding of how the world works, how businesses are, how western businesses are, people and so on.

Same way if a told you some politician was sexually assaulting his pages, you woulnd't assume this is representative of congressmen and pages in general...

I don't have recorded minutes of their interactions or other such hard proof.