Anybody know how things work inside Apple's culture?
Ex-Amazonian here. It's important to note that Amazon's Cause of Error (COE) process is not about blame. It is about determining what happened, why it happened, and what concrete steps are being taken so that it does not happen again. Individuals are not blamed as part of this process and that's in the official rules. The goal is to iterate and avoid making the same mistakes again.
Of course, I've also heard that there is a wide diversity of culture between teams, so maybe that plays in to it, too.
I've never had COEs come up in my or others' performance reviews.
If the boss who owns the COE "gets it" and has internalized the old-school Amazon culture then there won't be blame. The bosses really take the hits here, they do get personally blamed for these things. If they can't stand between the team and the more senior management then they are not doing it right.
If you and your boss mutually hate each other (which unfortunately I have seen) then it won't go well.
I think it is more of fear about losing their job rather than loyalty. It is not uncommon to find that any leak will be tracked down and the leaker summarily fired.
Is it really so hard to imagine that employees at Apple feel loyalty to the company? Employee loyalty is not an uncommon thing.
It's just unprofessional to babble around about new tech like it's a cookie recipe.