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Comment by garmaine | Hacker News Reader

Having met some people that work at Apple... they never stop talking about working at Apple.

If i was part of something that was used everyday by literally hundreds of millions of people around the world then even I would love to talk about the ones who gave me the opportunity to be part of it.

I would hope that you have hobbies and interests outside of work.

Your comment made my skin crawl. You're the type of person I desperately avoid at parties.

Perhaps a bit harsh?

I'm sad for you; you clearly haven't ever been a part of anything you really cared about.

Or maybe he has, but he didn’t let that consume his life entirely.

I think many people share this point of view. Personally, this cult of Jobs & co. seems a bit strange to me. We know the guy was not really a nice person. He had many ideas - some of them failed, some of them were a success. But would I like to be a friend of such a person? Honestly, not so much.

Nowhere near as bad as Googlers in my opinion.

I very rarely see discussions about the internal politics, or disclaimers about working for Amazon, Facebook, Microsoft, Netflix or Apple.

Oh don't get me wrong, they take their NDAs very seriously. To the point where if I casually ask "oh, so what do you do?" I'm treated with suspicion as a potential secret Gawker plot to find out what the new product launch is going to be.

But Apple folk tend to talk about non-NDA Apple stuff, Apple gossip and politics, and "guess which famous product lead I once swapped words with!" nonsense, and nothing else.

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