I really wonder what's happening inside the company, because Apple's lawyers make the company so secretive that we don't know much about it. Do employees read HN? Do they collect reports about what the consumers are asking for and send it up the management chain? Do they knowingly choose to ignore it? or do they actually believe the Emoticon Macbook is the future? or do employees feel dismayed that their management puts the Macbook/macOS departments in wreck, to later claim something like "Sorry guys, the market doesn't want laptops anymore, but, swear, we've tried real hard"? Does the Mac department experience super-high turnover, with coding ruins of senior devs being taken over by students on internships?
How does it feel to belong to the Blackberry of Apple? Do they get laughed at during lunch breaks?
I really wonder what's happening inside the company
If I had to take a wild guess, they've been going stir crazy waiting for the new HQ to be built. From what I know, they've got a lot of employees crammed in lots of temporary offices. They may also have temporarily slowed hiring.
All of that could add up to multiple problems all over the company. Like a skeleton crew struggling to get the ship back to port for refitting.
How does it feel to belong to the Blackberry of Apple? Do they get laughed at during lunch breaks?