Who Really is the "Director" of Dashboard?

MacManX writes "Does the director of Apple's upcoming Mac OS X feature, Dashboard, have something to hide? Or does he wish to remain hidden? Or are we just reading into this way too much? Rick has an excellent observation over at MacMerc. The evidence will astound you."

This proves nothing

[Hackie_Chan]

What did the article prove? Nothing. This is in my opinion a waste of space on the Slashdot's first page. Mod me down if you want, but the fact that Apple employees put in a fake name in a demonstration movie is no 'conspiracy'. Have you considered that maybe they just don't want people to peek at real people's profiles/names?

A nice little thing to notice, but using it as proof for the one who designed Dashboard? That's stretching it...

riiiight...

[admiralfrijole]

just because they used a fake name in there instead of using steve's name in there, there's a deeper meaning behind it.

people just seem to want to always find hidden meanings that, most times, aren't there at all.

Worried About Competitor Braindrain?

[xanderwilson]

Didn't Apple along with a bunch of other software corporations stop putting credits in their software a few years ago, to help prevent large competitors in or around Redmond from paying whatever it took to make ridiculously generous offers for those employees to work for them? Wouldn't it be prudent (if that is their policy) to avoid trumpeting all those people's names as well? What if this person didn't turn in the NDA yet?

Alex.

Re:sweet app

[scottblascocomposer]

Don't worry, you'll be just as poor after graduation... or worse! Unless you're one of those foresightful individuals who major in business or accounting or something. Bastards.

(Liberal arts my ass. Two degrees in music and I work in a frickin' bookstore. But I'm not bitter!)

:P

Re:riiiight...

[Ford Prefect]

It could always be one of those things known as a 'joke', too.

After all, the calculator in the video demonstration [apple.com] has '1.337' on it!

If there's one nerd in-joke, there's probably more...

i noticed that as well...

[admactanium]

i work in the entertainment industry so it stuck out as odd to me. but don't we all think steve jobs, who also happens to be the ceo of a major movie production studio, would know the significance of that phrase BEFORE he demo'd dashboard? most people in the entertainment field know what that means. i seriously doubt he would be caught unawares.

WAAAY too little to go on

[jaghatarjankare]

Alan Smithee is no news. Everyone knows about it. Having that name in something previewed by Apple means nothing - and you should all have better things to do. Egads, I mean come on and get a life!

Companies don't hire people who can think

[Anonymous Coward]

"You go to learn how to THINK. Once you know how to think, you apply that to any field."

Companies want people who know X 5.0, Y Enterprise Edition, and Z 3.0 Server.

Thinking? Feh.

Generalists. Who needs em.