Just in case you didn’t watch Steve Jobs in his All Things Digital interview, he mentioned that Apple is the “biggest startup in the world.” Cupertino doesn’t even have committees (imagine that)! Being that they are set up like a startup, they have one of the most flexible operations in the industry. A very intriguing post on the blog of former Apple engineer Sachin Agarwal gives some more insight on how things go down internally at Apple. He also explains that the reason why Apple’s Remote app has been refreshed yet is because the dev is…just a little bit busy.
“Yes, the Remote app is due for an update. But here’s why it hasn’t been updated: the person who wrote it is busy working on other things. Yes, the person, not the team. (He’s a good friend of mine)”
“Apple doesn’t build large teams to work on every product they make. Instead, they hire very few, but very intelligent people who can work on different projects and move around as needed.”
“One day you might be working on the Remote app, and the next day you might get pulled on to another project that needs your help.”
“The engineers on the Mac OS and iOS teams move back and forth between the two projects based on release cycles and what’s needs to ship next.”
Sachin doesn’t exactly give the name that the government knows the developer by, but if you are a frequent viewer of iTunes U, you might have watch an episode of the very successful Stanford University iPhone Application Development Course which is hosted by developer Alan Cannistraro. If you are avid viewer of that program, you’ll know that Alan expose himself as the dev behind Apple’s Remote app. Sach continues and explains what makes a very successful startup.
“Apple is run like a huge startup. The key to great products is small teams”
“Startups also thrive by keeping things lean. Great startups have small teams that can build quickly and pivot when needed. When working at a startup, you don’t own just one part of the application: you have to be able to work on whatever needs your attention that day.”
Apple is certainly one hell of a startup of that be the case. They even go as far as to shift developers between platforms. While some projects may seem to be forgotten about while Apple move engineers to higher priority developments (which they're not), it does provide for an surprisingly very efficient and flexible environment.
What do you guys think? Does Apple do the startup format damn good, or should they do what the folks in Redmond do throw a bunch of people at one thing.
Update on the PDF Exploit
Well, like we said earlier this week, Apple was bound to catch wind of the web-based jailbreak. An Apple spokesperson chimed in, tersely might we add, that the company is aware of the situation and is investigating the matter, based on what Reuters reports.
“Company spokeswoman Natalie Harrison said the company was aware of the report.
“We’re investigating,” she said.”
That’s all that was really said on that matter. There wasn’t any timeframe given for a fix, but, based on people using the thing as a mean to jailbreak the system, expect one sooner than later.
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