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Apple's Phil Schiller Works 80 Hours a Week Overseeing App Store
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Maybe it's time for Schiller to retire. Apple's entitled, arrogant, hostile behavior toward developers and regulators is never going to change as long as these stubborn fossils are calling the shots.
Don’t worry guys, he didn’t say how many weeks a year he did this. Interpretation is the key here!
So is he the entire App Store review team? 
And you don’t?. Is everyday life in a 3rd world country. Just we get 1000000 times less salary. 80 hours a week seems on the high side, but not on the crazy side. Most people I know works about 60 hours + 10 to 30 hours a week on the conmute. You are lucky to have been born in USA.
That 80 hours figure would tell you more about that person than any other part of the profile they published. And it wouldn't be good.
At least on a commute you can sleep, play switch... read a book... actually downtime and healthy activities.
At , you can check out any time, but you can never leave
I wouldn't recommend driving whilst doing any of those other healthy activities though, and given he is in the U.S., the overwhelmingly likely case is driving with only self. Schiller presumably is wealthy enough to have a chauffeur available though.
Define work, and define 80 hours. Then we’ll talk.
Welcome to the hotel Cupertino
Apple customers are seeing a 30% cut of value in his 80 hours. Losing battle sir, should see the the writing on the wall and that Apple needs to humble itself a little. I'm not a fan of things they are doing lately like this. It stifles app development and customer options. If the customer wants a walled garden, they will stay within the apple App Store. Or perhaps Apple should lower the cut if the requirement is that big of a need.
I don't want to spend 80 hours a week working any job, for any amount of money.
Tim Cook shouldn't let any of his staff work more than 50 hours. It's on him to make sure they don't feel obliged to work hours that are inhumane, and should actively forbid it.
There are a lot of people that work 80 hours a week—nurses, doctors, small business owners, lawyers, engineers, etc.
How is he or really anyone productive for some 11-16 hours per day, 5-7 days a week, year round? Well, even just several weeks in a row. Or just one 80 hour week.
That's hard to imagine.
Even if he were a teenager or in his early twenties that wouldn't work.
Surely not even a person at peak health could pull this off and deliver meaningful, focused work for 11+ hours a day?
You don't even have to look to a study to know that your brain and body are fried after 11 hours of focused work. That's just common sense.
Maybe it snows a lot on Apple Park, specifically on his office desk when nobody is around but him, and that's how he stays courageous for so many hours a day?
That's hard to imagine.
Even if he were a teenager or in his early twenties that wouldn't work.
Surely not even a person at peak health could pull this off and deliver meaningful, focused work for 11+ hours a day?
You don't even have to look to a study to know that your brain and body are fried after 11 hours of focused work. That's just common sense.
Maybe it snows a lot on Apple Park, specifically on his office desk when nobody is around but him, and that's how he stays courageous for so many hours a day?
If he's really working 80 hours per week then he is being horribly inefficient and should be let go for managing his department so poorly.
I work 60-70 hours a week. Not that difficult and another 20 usually for school
Only on the M1 and M2s. The M3 has a built in fix for it.
Plus, most of those articles like everything else are major click bait, and make it sound way worse than it really is. Yes it effects everyone who uses a M1/2, but it requires user access, so unless you have shady people touching your stuff or download compromised software you generally should be safe.