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> As the article notes, several companies (Apple, Google, etc.) could (currently) afford to fund such a lab, but there is no way their management and shareholde
by jjtheblunt 1y ago
> As the article notes, several companies (Apple, Google, etc.) could (currently) afford to fund such a lab, but there is no way their management and shareholders would approve.
When I was at Apple for several years, there were definitely at least two such groups.
- musicale 1y agoRecently? Apple's Advanced Technology Group seems like it was fairly successful (QuickTime, HyperCard, ColorSync, AppleScript/Apple Events, Squeak, etc.) but Steve Jobs shut it down in 1997. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apple_Advanced_Technology_Group https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apple_Advanced_Technology_Grou...
- jjtheblunt 1y agoit morphed and part was in Oregon, part in Cupertino, certainly through the 2000s and 2010s. the name internally didn't seem changed but maybe it was slighty altered.