a special iPod

[RWebb]

https://tidbits.com/2020/08/17/the-case-of-the-top-secret-ipod/

[Amail]

Cool read!

[masraum]

Not through the whole thing yet, but so far very cool.

(Those audio codecs were written by two engineers with advanced degrees from Berkeley and Stanford. When they weren’t teasing each other about which school was better, they were writing mathematical audio code that I was scared to touch. You would no more let a regular engineer mess with code like that than you’d let a bike mechanic rebuild the transmission in a Porsche. They had an occasional poker game I played in. The only reason I didn’t lose all my money was that one of them enjoyed his vodka.)

[wildthing]

And no one can verify the story... great barber shop tale.

[masraum]

Originally Posted by wildthing

And no one can verify the story... great barber shop tale.

Well duh, the author can verify it!

[wildthing]

Well apparently some other ex-employees tweeted to corroborate the story. And of course tweets are as reliable as any source on the Internet.

[Otter74]

I am skeptical that an SVP would have OKed that without letting the CEO know.