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If I could work from a European Apple office, this would be 100% my dream job. When you implement new features, you are slave to your marketing department - I'd
by gurkendoktor 9y ago
If I could work from a European Apple office, this would be 100% my dream job. When you implement new features, you are slave to your marketing department - I'd hate to waste my time on pointless gimmicks like the macOS Siri UI, for example. Maintenance work is much more satisfying because you're directly serving your users (usually skewing towards power users too!).
Also, I don't think the privacy restrictions would be so bad. Apple's UIKit engineers occasionally chit-chat with indie devs on Twitter.
The problem is that this job would be absolutely futile. If Apple hired 100 great engineers to fix bugs, management would simply double the amount of features that go into each yearly release.
- abakker 9y agoFor a company that loves minimalism so much, you've hit it right on the money WRT management. The TouchBar, while interesting, is the perfect example of this. I'd love to have had it along with the physical buttons - there's plenty of room. Alone, though, it is pretty weird. I assume that the real problem is that Apple's managers do email and web browsing, and that's it. They probably don't spend enough time in pro apps or trying to be productive to understand that a window manager built in, or physical keys or an improvement to their native text editor would be helpful.