nightcats's Journal: Apple Proprietary Paranoia: Potty Pals Compulsory

When it's an Apple event and everything must be just-so (especially where those odious creatures known as journalists are present), even a trip to the dvd-jon becomes a doubletwisted experience in infantilism. Apple Insider tells the whole sorry tale. These geek writers covering Apple must feel like they've stepped into a parallel reality with every new display of Apple paranoia:

Paranoia on the part of Apple reached a new high this week when the company refused to allow journalists covering its annual developers conference to use the restroom facilities on site without a personal escort..."I started off for the wash room, but was told by Apple officials that I couldn't go alone," he wrote, claiming that the seemingly absurd measure was the result of both Apple chief executive Steve Jobs and a just-announced iPhone 3G being somewhere within a 50 yard radius."