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Apple has 250 billion dollars at their disposal. They can obviously have multiple efforts running in parallel.
by leesec 8y ago
Apple has 250 billion dollars at their disposal. They can obviously have multiple efforts running in parallel.
- daveFNbuck 8y agoThis would be more obvious if I weren't reading it on a brand new faulty MacBook Pro screen.
- iagooar 8y agoThey have the money - but do they have enough high-profile people to run all those efforts?
- rurban 8y agoYes, but obviously they cannot fix the more urging problems in their core business: Keyboards, laptop CPU's and memory, macOS development. It's a desaster area every developer working with their products wants to leave as soon as possible. And why should I trust them with an iPhone or car then, when the simpliest products were run into the ground.
- npunt 8y agoMacs aren't their core business. You may think they should be, but they aren't.
- Twisell 8y agoAnything baking up your old school Apple is doomed rant? Swift is a huge and thankless work totally invisible to the userbase and heavily targeted to improve development on Mac/iOS. You just can’t brush it off to fit your narrative.
- greedo 8y agoAPFS is also a big investment in replacing HFS+.
- matthewmacleod 8y agoKeyboards, laptop CPU's and memory, macOS development. It's a desaster area every developer working with their products wants to leave as soon as possible. Jesus, calm the hell down. It’s okay to have complaints about aspects of Apple’s products, but this wild exaggeration isn’t doing anybody any favours.
- shalmanese 8y agoPeople fail to appreciate the fundamental differences between functional and divisional orgs and how that constrains Apple. At Microsoft, the head of Xbox marketing reports to the head of Xbox and the head of Azure marketing reports to the head of Azure. At Apple, there is no divisions, every Apple marketer is responsible for the success of every Apple product and reports to the head of Apple marketing. But the only way this is possible is if every single Apple employee is able to hold every single Apple product line in their head at the same time. This is an enormous constraint but it's also foundational to Apple mythos because it allowed them to kill the iPod. Divisional orgs have an enormously hard time with disruptive innovation because it upends the power structures of those with the most power. At Apple, there wasn't any person with the title "Head of iPod" whose job would have been in danger if the iPhone overtook the iPod. This was the reason Apple and pretty much only Apple have ever aggressively obsoleted their very best selling product and emerged even stronger out the other side. You can argue the merits of functional vs divisional all day long and many have but none of those arguments will gain any traction inside of Apple. Apple will remain functional until the day it dies because functional is what allowed Apple to kill the iPod.
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- saagarjha 8y ago> But the only way this is possible is if every single Apple employee is able to hold every single Apple product line in their head at the same time. Just to clarify: every public product line. If Apple is working on autonomous vehicles, there's no way that every (or even most) employees at Apple know about it.
- Nimitz14 8y agoThanks for posting that I didn't realize that's how Apple worked.
- greedo 8y ago"But the only way this is possible is if every single Apple employee is able to hold every single Apple product line in their head at the same time." Ridiculous. Apple has an incredible amount of secrecy across its different departments. Functional orgs don't require the hoi polloi to know everything, as long as mgmt does.
- stealthcat 8y agoCan't do much with anti-trust law around. In 18th-century, "trade companies" (V.O.C., British East India Company, etc.) are strong enough to own a country.
- dragonwriter 8y ago> In 18th-century, "trade companies" (V.O.C., British East India Company, etc.) are strong enough to own a country. Also, effectively, in the twentieth century, post-antitrust. Hence, why we have the term “banana republic”.