Employees sign up for courses tailored to their positions and backgrounds on an internal website available only to Apple staff members.

Apple has strenuously pursued the vision that function and beauty come from simplicity,[5] and teachers in its internal training program sometimes point to a series of Picasso lithographs that illustrate the drive to boil down ideas to their most essential components.

[7] The instructors include: Some courses teach case studies about important business decisions that Apple made.

These strategic decisions include the one to make the iPod and its iTunes software compatible with Microsoft's Windows system.

This was a topic of fierce debate internally at Apple, with Steve Jobs strongly opposing the notion of sharing the iPod with Windows.

Then the instructor, Nelson, showed a photo of the Apple TV remote, a thin rod with three buttons.