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> I've never truly understood how the people who gave us Safari and OS X gave us iTunes - they couldn't be more different. They're almost certainly from comple
by mrsteveman1 10y ago
> I've never truly understood how the people who gave us Safari and OS X gave us iTunes - they couldn't be more different.
They're almost certainly from completely separate teams, I've always heard that Apple operates like a bunch of disconnected groups that rarely ever interact with each other, perhaps that has changed recently.
But regardless of the details the end result is very often as you describe, and it's odd to see happen over and over. There are certainly managers and executives working over each of those groups that should be guiding them in the right direction so that things feel like a "part of the whole".
- flukus 10y ago> They're almost certainly from completely separate teams, I've always heard that Apple operates like a bunch of disconnected groups that rarely ever interact with each other, perhaps that has changed recently. Every company of non-trivial size operates like that.
- majewsky 10y agoA company is usually a tree-like structure, where the branches are connected by the root node. Too bad that this particular company's root node was garbage-collected in 2011 while there were still live references to it.
- nicky0 10y agoBut iTunes was already shit when the root node node was still around.