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Originally Posted by John F
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This is an offside comment on something from the linked article:
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Apple has complained that Bromwich has been too intrusive, including by seeking interviews with top executives and board members, and has been charging an inflated $1,100 per hour for his services to rack up high fees. The Cupertino, California-based maker of the iPad, iPod and iPhone has said Bromwich's activities could interfere with its ability to develop new products.
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I don't get the correlation between the monitor's oversight and the bolded sentence.
I work in a big company with layers and layers of management. Having someone come in and interviewing the bigwigs would hardly interfere with our ability to "create new products". That innovation happens in the trenches and slowly makes it way up the food chain.
I make this comment completely outside of the discussion on whether or not Apple was unfairly judged. It's just a odd statement, IMO, and that kind of exaggeration tends to make me more cynical about anything else Apple says. I hope it was a misquote by the reporter, rather than something Apple is actually trying to claim to be true.