| "In another sign that the company has prioritized the iPhone, Apple re-organized its software engineering department so there's no longer a dedicated Mac operating system team." There are a number of problems with this line of reasoning: 1. That reorganization started years ago, in the wake of Scott Forstall's departure in late 2012 2. The previous organization was, in my opinion, much more detrimental to macOS, with the iOS organization operating as a roach motel, where code and engineers move into, but never back out again (My perception was that this was Scott's doing, but YMMV). 3. There is no longer a dedicated iOS operating system team either, so I don't see how that reorganization can be seen as deemphasizing macOS. 4. With iOS accounting for the vast majority of revenue, an arrangement to share infrastructure tends to be advantageous to macOS, if anything. 5. There may no longer be a macOS team, but there certainly still are engineers (and even smallish sub-teams) that are predominantly working on one platform or another. |