Doesn't Apple require non-compete agreements from key employees?  

Should they shut these guys down?  Why aren't they using what Apple taught them to further Apple's iCloud inititative, rather than trying to kill it?

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Originally Posted by JerrySwitched26 

Doesn't Apple require non-compete agreements from key employees?  

 

Should they shut these guys down?

Itchy trigger finger?

No one knows (yet) what these guys are doing and to what extent (if any) it violates their agreements with Apple or whether these agreements even apply in this case. I'm not even sure non-compete agreements are very enforceable in California.

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Originally Posted by JerrySwitched26 

Why aren't they using what Apple taught them to further Apple's iCloud inititative, rather than trying to kill it?

Maybe Apple didn't want to do what these guys want to do. Who says they're trying to "kill" anything (let alone what Apple is doing)?

Sheesh.

That is so funny! "Up There" is a long running joke at our office ever since an email interchange that went something like:

- "Ok the file is up there."

-- "I don't know where "Up There" is but I don't see the file."

- "It is in the folder with your name on it."

Ever since then it is always "Up There" with lyrical emphasis.

Too bad Apple didn't buy Sun when they had the chance. They could always snatch up Joyent (its made up largely of ex-Sun engineers) as its pretty much in the same area Up There is targeting.

I'm starting a "cloud hosting provider" business.  The name is based on what you think when you think 'clouds' and that is "UP" and the second half of the business name is when you define ALL your stuff and that is "YOURS".

So, 'Up Yours' for a "cloud hosting provider" business name...  What do you think?...

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Quote:

Originally Posted by JerrySwitched26 

Doesn't Apple require non-compete agreements from key employees?  

 

Should they shut these guys down?  Why aren't they using what Apple taught them to further Apple's iCloud inititative, rather than trying to kill it?

Sounds like these guys are creating enterprise solutions which Apple isn`t very big on.

As far as furthering iCloud, these guys probably got tired of Apples half-assed attempts at cloud computing and moved on.

Serlet built Interface Builder for NeXTSTEP 1.0, the visionary UI design tool that has endured and evolved into it's latest incarnation in Xcode, and which has been used to design the user interface for just about every NeXTSTEP, Mac OS X, iPhone and iPad app since. He also contributed significantly to the development of OS X and Cocoa.

He isn't poaching anyones intellectual property, and can pursue whatever interests he wants.

Best of luck to him!

That's surprising, when he left Apple I got the impression he was going in to research, not going to do a startup. 

Not really sure what the fascination is with the cloud. Data management seems like such a dull thing to do. It's not like he needs the money.