Of course leaks still happen but not allowing to take prototypes home means that there's been fewer lost prototypes, for sure.
However, the current COVID-19 outbreak has thrown a spanner in the works of Apple's prototype security. Since everyone is encouraged to work from home, it also means that they've had to allow taking prototypes with them.
As said, normally this wouldn't be allowed, unless you are an executive of the highest caliber. Now, even lesser development staff can take the devices home and potentially cause some issues to what Apple hopes is a impenetrable veil of secrecy around its upcoming products.
Apple hasn't quite given every average Joe the access to prototypes, though. Only a select personnel can still take home the precious development samples.
Accordingt to rumors, currently in development are at least a new HomePod, Apple TV, MacBook Pro, iPad, Apple Watch, iMac, and of course the 5G enabled iPhone. In addition, Apple is of course developing updates to each of its operating systems.
Written by: Matti Robinson @ 31 Mar 2020 12:11
