[epynonymous]

but i think the author's got a point, you never hear about any stalwarts of software dev defecting to apple, do you?

[rahoulb]

no never. not jordan hubbard, not dominic giampolo. no-one.

[rimantas]

I was thinking about Ivan Krstić, but he did not really defect to Apple.

[nostrademons]

Who?

[rahoulb]

Tsk, young people today. No idea of history (where history == about ten years ago)

[_delirium]

It could be that it's not as common currently? I may have just missed it, but I haven't noticed any high-profile moves to Apple in the past 2-3 years, contrary to the situation with people moving around between Microsoft, Google, and Facebook.