[brnewd]

Apple isn't the best example. For instance their Safari development team is already severely underfunded, there is barely anyone to fire.

[sokoloff]

Or maybe Apple is a great example because they've resisted over-hiring in the fat times, so don't have to trim in the lean times.

[unethical_ban]

Or maybe all these layoffs wouldn't be a problem if we in the US had a government that supported people more reliably with wages and affordable health insurance for a decent duration after a layoff.

Over hiring then laying some off shouldn't be a catastrophe in tech.

I also think people would have less issue with these layoffs if CEOs didn't make it sound like a short term critical business decision while being worth hundreds of millions of dollars.

[davidw]

I agree with you, but all else being equal, layoffs are stressful and... while I would prefer that companies have the flexibility to do so paired with a social safety net to lessen the impact, there's also an argument for employers who don't just plug in and then discard people like "resources".

[pwinnski]

That Apple doesn't agree with you on development priorities for Safari does not mean the Safari dev team is severely underfunded.

They could be, or not. They seem to issue a preview release every two weeks or so[0], so they are clearly making progress on something.

0. https://webkit.org/blog/

[dehrmann]

That's a long-term strategy to encourage native development and keep people in the app store.