I doubt that Apple does it any more than Google does. As for the article linked to, it is from a reader of MacRumors.com who says that he emailed Steve Jobs and got that reply. Even if that email exchange was 100% on the up and up, and it would be hard to prove that it was, it was most likely replied to by a marketing/
PR person and not Steve Jobs himself.
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