And I wonder if Apple's insular corporate culture discourages certain kinds of top quality software engineers from joining? I've been reading about Robert Mert

And I wonder if Apple's insular corporate culture discourages certain kinds of top quality software engineers from joining? I've been reading about Robert Merton's idea that a key motivator for practicing scientists is recognition, so I'm thinking in particular of software engineers who are accustomed to the norms of open source projects. This might tie back to John Siracusa's recent observation that Google is "a huge gravitational sink for engineering talent," and Apple is not. There's a small discussion here: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1257201 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1257201