Whenever there is a major Apple presentation, the demo machines are meticulously prepared, showing a well-managed list of documents and a sparkling-clean Applications folder. Some of the video tutorials on the Apple website, however, provide a more candid view at which applications Apple employees like.
To point out just one example, the Business section on the Apple website has a Quick Tips Theater, which, as the name obviously implies, presents short clips, pointing out some useful tips about using a Mac (why this is located on the business section beats me, though).
In one of the more recent videos -- on using Spaces with a Windows virtual machine --, the presenter assigns an application to a specific "space," and at forty seconds into the video, you can see this:
As the presenter scrolls through the list of applications in the dialog, you can see the usual suspects of non-Apple programs like Adobe Creative Suite, but also the bittorrent client Azureus, Firefox, and handbrake. Wait: handbrake? On a computer used in a company that does not even let you take a screenshot at all while the native DVD Player is running? How very interesting...
Have you found any similar videos that provide a more intimate glance at what third-party app are used inside Apple?
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After Jobs sees this will he break their hand?
Simdude:
There's nothing inherently illegal about handbrake.
You're right, of course, and the producers of the Quick Tips videos may just as well rely on handbrake's transcoding features at some step in their production workflow. Still, I found it amusing to see just what apps they had installed on that machine.
the employee will [...] be disciplined if not fired.
For showing an Application folder that looks just like the average Apps folder on an average Apple customer's machine? I don't think so.
Geert:
Good point. ;)
My reason for including this comment in the blog post, by the way, was that I feel that not only "business customers" would benefit from the tips shared in the Quick Tips videos, so why "hide" them in that section of the site.
Hello Jochen, you wrote: "(why [Quick Tips Theater] is located on the business section beats me, though)."
Wouldn't video tutorials obviously mean business to the person who has made these?
There's nothing inherently illegal about handbrake. I had a DVD from my wedding, which I paid the videography for the rights to, and I used handbrake to extract segments for my website. (yeah, it's pretty silly you have to pay for rights to something you were in, but it was the same with the photographer.)
I'm sure most people use handbrake to rip DVD's but it does have use for other purposes too.
that being said, I would not be surprised once someone at Apple reads this blog, the employee will be forced to remove the app and probably be disciplined if not fired.