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external use. Also, a single project may have separate code names associated
with hardware, software, documentation, industrial design, and marketing.
Furthermore, outsiders—such as developers and the press—may be told
about the same project, but each will be told a different code name. Just
to keep everybody guessing, Apple sometimes changes code names in the
middle of a project, or reuses old code names for new projects. Not only
does all this create confusion in Apple watchers, it also serves as an audit
trail to trace leaks to their sources.
Despite Apple’s best efforts to keep this sort of thing from becoming
public, ...