Magazine editor reveals how Apple’s new desktop computer got leaked

May 28, 2013 13:47 GMT  ·  By

In a Quora thread discussing secrecy at Apple, a former MacUser (UK) editor reveals how the US Government managed to blow the whistle on Apple’s plans to introduce a new Macintosh computer to the market.

Adam Banks was editing MacUser (UK) in the late 1990s when, “by a series of flukes,” the magazine had quickly become the first to print details of the next-generation iMac of that time, just two months before its introduction.

Attempting to build some suspense, he adds, “We got the details from someone who worked at a third party site where Apple had seeded a test unit.”

He then proceeds to confirm that said third party was actually the US Government or, more precisely, the Pentagon.

“Compared to the real secrets they were keeping, when it came to some plastic PC they’d been asked not to talk about, I suspect nobody gave a [expletive],” he writes.

Surely they’ve learned their lesson by now. Both Apple and the US Government.