I understand why Books is in the software ghetto; it's been delegated to a subordinate. Sigh.
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Apple University Dean Shares Deep Dive Into Apple's Organizational Structure
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Here is its Wikipedia page. Other corporate universities also exist, including for McDonalds and Disney.
I was referring to other companies (specifically where I work) , not Apple. Is your work place any different ?
Increasing prices doesn't earn you more profit. The prices are already supposedly set at the optimum.
Interesting. This seems like the opposite of what Jobs used to say. In the spirit of, "I don't care if it's not possible, just do it."
Well, that's their job. Otherwise they'd be engineers. Funny thing is most managers I've seen have ended up acting like engineers, so I think Jobs's structure makes more sense.
In my opinion a manager that is a subject matter expert is a better manager , or just like the article says, it's easier to be trained to be a better manager once you master a discipline , what ever that is. I am not tryin to diminish the roll or the importance of a manager, I just think most of them (not referring to Apple ) don't know when they are in mistake. It happened at my company many times.
Is it their products, or the “Apple eco-system“ within them? I don’t think the current eco-system is perfect, but it is still worlds better than the Microsoft I left in 2006. Having the innerconnectivity of a calendar, contacts list, emails, and certain apps across a tablet, phone, laptop, and online cloud has worked out to be worlds better than anything I see from Microsoft or Android.
But I continue to take many issues with their hardware products, especially the hyper-drive of minimalization after Steve passed. If 3rd-party hardware providers existed for Apple software, which would likely produce much less-fashionable hardware options than those from the Apple store but likely with more ports, jacks, expandability, and a much less dear price tag, then we’d see how really popular/favored Apple Store products are.
I doubt it, because Samsung’s corporate culture will never allow it to work.
Apple’s biggest strength continues to be its design-led culture where designers are empowered to call the shots on the final design of the project and have everyone else work towards enabling the desired end user experience. That’s what unites the company.
It’s the opposite for many other tech companies. Very often, you have engineers chance upon a hot piece of tech, then they struggle to turn it into a workable product, and then you wonder why nobody wants to buy it despite rave reviews on tech blogs.
If you are not prepared to cede total control over to the product designers in your company, then attempting to ape Apple’s organisational structure will only result in failure. The classic “copying the form but not the essence” problem.
Yeah, Apple was basically four or five years ahead of the curve when they jumpstarted USB-C in 2015 with the USB-C only MacBook. (Now people are begging for it for their phone lol.) Various docks, USB-A adapters, etc. have been available for about five years.
Apple doesn’t have a very large selection of adapters or accessories of their own. They seem they prefer to let others take care of those things, partnering with folks like Logitech, LG and Blackmagic for various accessories and peripherals.
really it shouldn’t.
separating hardware team to hardware engineering and hardware technologies seems fruition the action. Their still the same team - engineers on both sides so why separate them. Guess I’ll read the full piece which hopefully explains in detail the reason for more teams. AI should’ve been there under Steve to be honest that team makes perfect sense.
It would seem that AirPod Pro’s have AI built in, it’s doing computational sound not spoken stuff. I’m grateful for this since headphones are always used with something else.
First they will mock it with a couple of tweets making fun about it then a couple of years down the line they will follow suit with some splashy tongue in cheek ad and whatnot.
Lol, It cracks me up that the “people” department is just... gone.
I think you are right, I haven’t read the article mind you, but it could be that there are so so many employees now that it can’t really be crammed in a single cell. There’s this concept that humans can naturally organize and survive in groups of 120 max, since the hunter gatherers eras... a bit more and chaos ensues.
Also, R&D is in my very few experience a touchy point when it doesn’t have to guarantee any practical output.