It is
getting like the Freemasons
Fruity toymaker Apple is making its iPad developers sign
bizarre secrecy oaths which make the Freemasons look like a bunch of
pansies. Masons have to swear to keep things in their order secret or
else they will have their throat cut, their stomach slit open and their
guts
tossed over their shoulders.
To become a developer who needs to test the iPad you have
to promise to keep it isolated in a room with blacked-out windows. The 10-page oath bars partners from disclosing any
information about the iPad. The borrowed iPad must also remain tethered to a “fixed
object” we assume that is because it will escape. Apple won't send out an iPad until potential partners
send photographic evidence that they've complied.
Bending to Apple's bizarre demands may be a small price
to pay for inclusion amongst an elite Illuminati of Apple's favoured
developers. Of course it will all look pretty silly if users suddenly
realise that they have just bought a $500 keyboardless netbook that sucks so
hard that when you turn it on all the windows in the room blow out.