Former Apple engineer reveals what's behind the company's secrecy

That Apple is a company that little or nothing likes to reveal its secrets is something that practically all our regular readers know. And, especially in the time of Steve Jobs, it was quite difficult to know what was the next step that the Cupertino company was going to take. Secrecy has always been a cornerstone at Apple, keeping suspense about upcoming devices was paramount. Lately, in the era of telephony and communications, it has become extremely difficult to protect a launch, in fact, we have helped you see the models that are going to arrive even months before. Today, a former Apple engineer has told how security measures are at Apple to keep secrets with suspicion.

This former engineer worked on the development of the original iPhone, and has told these little secrets through a post in Quora. Let's capture what his most curious revelations have been:

If you've worked at Apple, you know that black fabrics are how they protect their secret projects; they don't want you to see them; it's a way for you to ignore them. I only came into contact with the machine through the testing procedure, I did not see the object itself. You can dress up for Apple's secret project on Halloween, you just have to cover yourself with a black blanket and cut two holes for the eyes.

He also talked about the "laboratories" where the art of consumer electronics takes hold:

Apple gave code names to projects and engineers. Sometimes you had access to the "secret laboratory." This laboratory was within the central laboratory. Anyone could have access to the central laboratory, but rarely to the secret laboratory.

It is simply an exteriorization by an employee of something that we already imagined, the suspicion with which Apple likes to keep its secrets in the United States.