You fail to realize that I am talking about the logistics of comparing iOS to 9 women making 1 baby in a month.
You even said yourself that more than one person works on the code at the same time, so basically I was right.
The baby was a horrible analogy. Check.
The point that most people can't understand is that you can't always throw more money / people at a problem and expect that problem to be resolved quicker.
Here's a far better analogy that isn't so simple and contrived. Let's say I need to build a brick wall 5' high and 15' long. If I do that by myself (i.e. a single developer working on ALL bugs), it's going to take a long time. If I bring on a bigger team, let's just say 10 people, that wall WILL be built quicker. If you have 10 developers working on bugs, that may very well be quicker than 1 person doing all the work. That's just common sense. So, it takes me a week to build a wall. It takes my 10 person crew about a day and a half.
Let's say I want that wall done super quick. 5 minutes seems like a nice goal. So, I can just hire 50,000 workers to build that 15' of wall, right? That seems to be the attitude here. Apple has incredibly deep pockets, so they should just hire as many people as necessary to get the work done in an insanely quick amount of time. The problem is it doesn't work that way. 50,000 workers aren't going to get that wall done any quicker than 10 people would. There's a great chance they would just slow the entire project down in fact. There's just too many people, not enough space, they'll get in each others way, etc.
I'm sure Apple is staffed at what they find to be a reasonable level for the work they have to accomplish. Doubling that staff most likely won't double their productivity. And it may just slow it down. I can't say for sure as I don't work for Apple. But they're a successful technology company. I'm sure their practices would generally follow standard industry practices for software development. It's not like they get special and/or unique developers that are able to do what no one else in the market can do. They don't possess a magical room where the occupants are able to break the laws of nature and work miracles. They might get their pick of the little when it comes to talent, but that's all their money buys them.
The end result is, it really doesn't matter how rich Apple is. Money isn't the solution to this particular problem. Throwing money at the problem won't have any effect. Throwing more people at the problem might not be the best idea either. This is a matter of smart people finding the problems and fixing them. That process moves at it's own pace and isn't affected by what you might think.
