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| Apple is trying to stop publishing a book containing company secrets |
According to the German Focus magazine, Apple has sent a letter to block publication, to prevent the book from being published by a former director of the German App Store.
Tom Sadowski worked with Apple in marketing iTunes in Germany, Austria and Switzerland for ten years, then was responsible for the German App Store until November 2019. The book was written in German with the title (App Store) secret, according to his LinkedIn page.
From the perspective of the former director, this book goes behind the scenes from the app store and describes Sadowski's journey through Apple and his personal experience in the App Store and with the company's CEO (Tim Ku (Tim Cook)), the book can be found on the following channels on Amazon sold Like e-books and paper.
Apple has sent a letter to Sadovsky and publisher Murmann Verlag asking them to stop delivering the book to the store and taking all copies of the book and destroying the manuscripts in the book.
Apple has said in a statement: Apple has always supported freedom of the press and the rights of various authors, and although we regret that Apple employees have long violated our relationship with working with us, their actions do not affect us. He left nothing, the choice was just his job and the decision was accepted. It is a business committee.
The company says, "All employees must expect to implement their recruitment policies in a fair and equitable manner, and all companies should expect their business practices to remain confidential." The book claims that the book reveals trade secrets of great economic value. But (Sadowski) refused to include the property information.
Apple also said that (Sadowski) violated the employment contract, and (Sadovsky) said in an interview with a German newspaper (Der Spiegel) that he had shared the manuscript of the book with Apple before it was published, adding that he had done this believed that the benefits of Apple's book outweigh the harm to Apple and told the company that The newspaper's response to the publication of the book surprised the newspaper.