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This is certainly true of many companies and may well be true of Apple, too, though it doesn't really fit the prevailing narrative we have of Apple as a company
by cobralibre 16y ago
This is certainly true of many companies and may well be true of Apple, too, though it doesn't really fit the prevailing narrative we have of Apple as a company precisely steered by an extremely hands-on executive team.
Personally, I'm tickled by this silly and completely implausible variant of the "corporation as federation" idea: That the the executive team is focused on the iOS platform to such an extent that the desktop Safari team implemented Reader -- "annoying ads" marketing and all -- simply to see if they could get away with it.
- philwelch 16y agoWhy would it a matter of "if they could get away with it"? It's a genuinely good feature. What I am saying is that it's highly implausible that the executive team deliberately set out to advantage iAds by reimplementing Readability in the Mac version of Safari. (If Mobile Safari had Reader--where it would be even more useful--then some suspicion could be warranted.)
- cobralibre 16y agoBear in mind that you're responding to a bit of fanciful musing which was explicitly signaled by the phrase "I'm tickled by this silly and completely implausible... idea" -- the idea being that the Reader feature is a public thumbing of the nose towards the iAds initiative, made possible by upper management's ostensible neglect of Apple's desktop software.