[Cd00d]

Why the anonymous source? 10 year old secrets in a rapid-development technology seem like non-secrets, so who's willing to "leak" but not be identifiable at this point?

Maybe Apple has strict secrecy rules that are only partially enforced? I don't quite get it.

[benologist]

Apple had police raid a Gizmodo editor's home searching for a lost iPhone prototype they had obtained -

https://www.pcworld.com/article/195053/gizmodo_iphone_police...

Same company that once optimized negative publicity just by making an official guideline warning iOS developers not to talk to the press...

     "If you run to the press and trash us, it never helps."

https://web.archive.org/web/20141226094343/https://developer...

[close04]

If that person is still connected to Apple they may not want to sabotage the relationship.

[daniel_reetz]

Apple has an extreme focus on secrecy.

Apple probably considers this board their property.

[95014_refugee]

It is their property. They paid for it, and it was never sold or otherwise transferred.

[daniel_reetz]

Thanks for the helpful clarification. Clearly someone has this dev board or has access to it in such a way that they were able to share it. My point was simply that they might have something they shouldn't, and that fact helps explain some quirks of the article that seemed confusing to the GP.

I'm ex-Apple, BTW.