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by stephc_int13 1299 days ago
With an accountant at the head of the company, what would you expect?

They also have too much power, too much money, not enough competition and a deteriorating company culture.

But aside from their dominance, they also have a few gems, their bet on ARM is paying off big time.
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ml_basics 1299 days ago
> a deteriorating company culture

Could you elaborate on this? Genuine question, because how Apple is so successful is a complete mystery to me.

I worked there during the pandemic and my experience was that there is no company culture, it's just a bunch of totally siloed small teams. Culture grows as a result of people speaking to each other, which I didn't really see happening.

Could be that I was in a particularly siloed part though.

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NBJack 1299 days ago
Silo'd teams that don't talk to each other? That sounds like a sign the culture is already deteriorating, or the lack of communication is inherently part of the culture.

I'd be curious as to how the iOS team would be independent of the hardware team or the app dev experience teams. I suspect your team experience was a corner case.

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