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I’ll tell you as an Apple employee—engineers and first/second level managers don’t give a shit about market share or which platform makes the most money. Most o
by buzzert 7y ago
I’ll tell you as an Apple employee—engineers and first/second level managers don’t give a shit about market share or which platform makes the most money. Most of the engineers I work with are very personally motivated because macOS is their favorite operating system.
Yes, there is feature creep and it does have a bit to do with executive mind-share. But don’t attribute to greed what you could attribute to the age old problem of managing software complexity.
- saagarjha 7y agoI thought you worked on UIKit ;)
- jacobsenscott 7y agoI don't doubt the rank and file are dedicated to the projects they work on. But I imagine the people higher up the chain care very much where the money comes from, and priorities will naturally fall out of that.