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The gist: > they’re shipping half-baked software just to hit some arbitrary deadlines. Control Centre aside, Apple is my favorite example in founder-led vs ma
by ashvardanian 2y ago
The gist:
> they’re shipping half-baked software just to hit some arbitrary deadlines.
Control Centre aside, Apple is my favorite example in founder-led vs manager-led company comparisons. The same company totally changed in less than 10 years. Profits multiplied. But practically everything that made Apple craftsmanship iconic is gone. Feels like their current domination is the echo of their older investment in software-hardware co-design and recent supply chain dominance, but not real innovation.
- dclowd9901 2y agoAren’t they dominating cpu architectures as well? Is there a better mobile cpu being made today?
- DidYaWipe 2y agoHow about some examples?
- lelandbatey 2y agoWe are literally in a thread discussing the latest example in the form of control panel. Do you require an enumerated list before you shall permit us to continue?
- ashvardanian 2y agoEasy. Here is an article I wrote in 2016: https://ashvardanian.com/posts/whats-wrong-with-wwdc-2016/ https://ashvardanian.com/posts/whats-wrong-with-wwdc-2016/
- danirod 2y agoFunny thing is that the arbitrary deadline maybe was real 5 years ago, but nowadays is a lie. Every major macOS and iOS version in the last couple of years has had a feature that is "coming later this year". For this cycle it's Apple Intelligence, last year it was the Journal app, and the year before there also were a bunch of things that were delayed. Why not just wait until they finish those features and use the extra time to actually test the OS? (Rhetorical question, the answer is probably 'investors').
- interludead 2y agoApple’s profits might be up, but does the soul of their product design feel diluted?
- appendix-rock 2y agoThat…is what the comment is saying, yes.