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I'm consistently surprised at how often I hear about hacky, poorly engineered solutions in Apple products (and those are only the ones that are externally visi
by wutbrodo 11y ago
I'm consistently surprised at how often I hear about hacky, poorly engineered solutions in Apple products (and those are only the ones that are externally visible/relevant to product quality directly). I can't imagine they don't have access to broadly the same quality of engineer as other big companies, which leaves the question of why presumably deliberate product choices were made this way.
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- eric_h 11y agoMy guess is inflexible deadlines for products and a certain death march culture for meeting them (from what I've heard (third-hand, admittedly) from people who work there) lead them to be forced to cut corners in some places. On the bright side, Apple does usually eventually fix or replace the hacky solutions. The other side of that is that it sometimes takes years.