[michelb]

It feels like they are spread way too thin, and individual teams are not allowed to improve their app/services/parts on their own. If I had to work on Apple Notes I would have several suggestions, not all worthy of work of-course, but letting a lot of apps go stagnant is something else entirely.

[ornornor]

> spread too thin

It’s a choice though, it’s not like they aren’t the richest company in the world.

[SebastianKra]

Nevermind richtest company. It's like every year they release three new half-baked apps, that will not receive updates in years.

Just focus on a core and let third-party apps do what they're good at.

[xattt]

Apple used to have to roll-their-own to hedge their bets. For example, Safari and iWork came about when there was a possibility that Microsoft would pull support for IE and Office for Mac.

Now it’s done for momentum.

[deegles]

it's the consequence of promotion driven development

[michelb]

Still need people to press buttons though. But I feel too many decisions have to go through a tiny set of people. But I have no insights into the org. I do wish they would do more smaller releases. Like update Notes without a full OS update.