My take is that their core expertise is in the Apple ecosystem (from the earliest days), and a pivot to web would require major hiring efforts (effectively fire

My take is that their core expertise is in the Apple ecosystem (from the earliest days), and a pivot to web would require major hiring efforts (effectively fire most of the people and hire a bunch of web devs). That's not really the company culture as I knew it, and I think that most folks are probably happy to ride this one into the sunset than try to rebuild the entire business.