How do people think this relationship with an Apple executive, will affect other potential partnerships? I mean will their be a potential for a conflict of interest? This strikes me as a move by apple to get a modicum of control, just like Peter Copetti said in the Midus Letter interview

Peter Copetti: Well, we’re not building POET to be acquired; we’re building it to stand alone and to be successful on its own. However, the disruptiveness of the inherent nature of the technology is so great that someone most likely will want to control it. I don’t want to get into specific names. That’s about all I’d like to say on that topic for now.

Are we seeing a move by apple to control poet to some extent?