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I worked at Apple and no one is deliberately making the experience bad on non-Apple devices. They just have a million things they want to do, limited resources
by threeseed 4y ago
I worked at Apple and no one is deliberately making the experience bad on non-Apple devices.
They just have a million things they want to do, limited resources and so they simply don't prioritise it.
- manigandham 4y agoThe multi-trillion dollar megacorporation does not have "limited resources" when it comes to interoperability of such a core security feature.
- soco 4y agoPotato, potahto. So they deliberately don't prioritise it.
- amelius 4y agoThis is still quite bad, just like omitting the truth is a form of lying.
- emptyfile 4y ago> limited resources haha, oh really?
- sofixa 4y agoUsing "limited resources" while talking about Apple is surely a joke, right?
- threeseed 4y agoYou should read the Mythical Man-Month. You can't just add unlimited developers to a project and expect it to be productive or sustainable. No different at Meta, Spotify, Netflix etc.
- harperlee 4y agoI don’t see how an extra program built for windows or linux can in any way stall whatever project limits Apple faces for macos. They’re effectively independent projects.
- massysett 4y agoThere are only so many competent software developers and managers out there. Managers have limited bandwidth as well. For everything any organization says “yes” to, it’s saying “no” to something else. That’s true even if the organization has a huge cash pile.
- pwinnski 4y ago> They’re effectively independent projects. Unless you care about interoperability, which for a product like this is essential.
- harperlee 4y agoNah not really - there is already a proprietary API in iCloud that they use to synch keys between devices, that will be internally documented.
- saagarjha 4y agoApple historically runs skeleton teams for everything. The company is all about getting more from less.
- cm2187 4y agoThe developers of iTunes for windows certainly do. I wrote developers because I assume there is more than one, but I guess that number may be 1 or 0.
- iggldiggl 4y agoI find not having to contend with the break-up of iTunes into a gazillion of separate apps (so far, fingers crossed) to actually be an advantage of using it on Windows these days. That's because I prefer to manage my collection of radio comedy episodes as podcasts [1], and with unified iTunes that's simply a matter of changing the media type of those files to "Podcast" and voila, it just works. On a modern Mac on the other hand, from what I've gathered this is no longer possible, and the separate Podcasts app that has replaced iTunes in that regards only supports subscribing to "real" podcasts, and doesn't allow manually adding additional episodes. (I suppose I'd have to resort to either hacking the local podcast database, or set up a local HTTP server with a fake podcast feed in order to add those files, or just give up on that prospect entirely…) [1] So they don't clutter up my actual music library, to get the listened/unlistened visual indicator, and due to way I'm syncing iTunes with my Android phone, to also get my phone to remember the playback position, too (in iTunes you can enable remembering the playback position for any file, including music tracks, but my Android media player nevertheless only supports this for files synced over as "podcasts").
- izacus 4y agoThe CEO of Apple just publicly said something that contradicts your working experience. I'll trust him to clearly explain the strategy over your experience.
- saagarjha 4y agoApple product direction is set by execs who buy their entire extended family iPhones and switch between their three HomeKit-enabled houses and driving to work in their CarPlay cars. This biases how they determine value in things, beyond the obvious reasons.