Apple these days is very traditional with the SLT comprising the various VPs and everyone reporting to them via middle management layers. In the period where S

Apple these days is very traditional with the SLT comprising the various VPs and everyone reporting to them via middle management layers. In the period where Steve Jobs was not CEO it was a lot more like Microsoft with the various geographical divisions e.g. EMEA, AMR in particular having their own fiefdoms and starting wars with each other. And then of course the ridiculous number of skunkworks projects that would compete with other teams.