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UpV0tesF0rEvery0ne t1_jdd82ab wrote

The more I hear about the innerworkings of Apple the more it resembles a bigger slower valve.

Thousands of engineers and designers working on pie in the sky ideas with nearly limitless budgets and no timeliness, whatever is interesting they work on with no real end.

And when something is not perfect employees shift to other projects or decide to scrap it internally. There must be so many ridiculously useless things being worked on at Apple.

Reminds me of hearing Mark Rober talk about him pitching ideas and them just building teams around it, making an ar headset generate games based on the g forces of the car.

Why is stuff like this even a priority?

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Evipicc t1_jdf5lim wrote

Stuff like self driving tech? Because it would be amazing and preserve somewhere around a million lives a year (worldwide auto accident deaths) once it's universal...

Engineers with time and freedom create incredible things.

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Name_Dudemanbro t1_jdf7w0r wrote

When I was there I got to work with some engineers who’d previously been on those teams. The limitless budget thing is definitely not true, and even then I don’t think spending money on R&D for potential new products is ever a bad thing when you can afford it. I’m sure they’re happy with things like the iPad coming from a “pie in the sky” idea.

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totpot t1_jdghf0f wrote

A big difference between Apple and Google is that Google tests all it's stuff publically and Apple tests all it's stuff internally. Apple probably has a product graveyard as large as Google's. The difference is that they killed them before they had a chance to disappoint the public.
The thing about innovation is that they have to be pie in the sky ideas. Because if the idea isn't at least a little crazy then it means it makes sense. And if it makes sense, then it means that everyone else is already working on it and you're too late.

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