Clearly it's not just their money - lots of companies throw money at projects and botch them all the time. Apple somehow does fitness tracking far better than Fitbit, semiconductors better than Qualcomm, makes software as well as Google, make better hardware than nearly any OEM, and even seems capable of doing graphics as well as Nvidia. They are unreasonably successful in too many domains that they did not even start out in. So people who may have insights, especially Apple employees, please share your thoughts! What about Apple's culture makes it so successful? What does Apple do differently from others? What does it do well (and not so well)?
Software sucks. Android is way ahead of iOS. iOS feels like Windows 2000.
I haven't done a direct comparison but android is... buggy. If iOS is worse that's pretty sad.
What do you mean by buggy? Laggy yes based on hardware but not buggy
This is the reason I like apple more than Google (ex-googler here). Apple doesn’t look at projects in the recent 1-2 year span; instead, the company does multi-year long term planning (which should be done by any company ideally).
<manager detected> If you are a manager, you are king at apple. Unlink other companies like Google and Meta where developer is king. Mangers feel like God at apple, which is the 💩... Managers with no tech foundation keep rubbing things on employees. And can you imagine- there is no feedback from employees on their management- how shitty can it get. I have worked at other companies and never seen such opaque covert culture
Yeah, I hear your experience. It sounds tough for you. First, I’m not a manager. I’m IC. Second, I wouldn’t say it’s just top-down (comparing with Google, it’s more top-down true story). I have influenced the team decision multiple times, which gives me compassion for your experience. Sounds like your manager isn’t very capable to get your team intact.
Been at apple since last 4yrs. Apple's culture is shit! This is my experience and what ihave seen so far- they acquire startups to bring in ppl, they build products and soon realize of 💩 culture at apple(only top->down) and leave.. this cycle repeats over and over again. The only ppl who stick at apple are in age band:40+ with kids who just want stability in life. TL;DR : smart ppl come build something, realize shitty culture and they leave apple. New ppl come maintain, realize shit culture and leave.. cycle repeats.
This sounds like an answer from employees' perspective that the culture is bad. But OP asked how the business is able to successfully execute in so many domains. Is OP wrong? Can these not both be true?
I'm sharing insight what happens to connect the dots. So new folks who join are full of passion, make a difference and ofc good 💸.. but soon in 2-3 yrs you understand 💩 management and leave.. new ppl come and work their ass off and soon they realize this and leave.. this new passion is what's driving IMO
They’ve successfully pivoted from a tech company to a marketing company. Proof: you don’t buy an iPhone because it has the best tech. You buy it because it gives you status
Haha you said what I said as I was typing it Though I'll still assume, never having owned an iPhone, that iPhones have the best cameras. I know Apple has a history with media production and cares about things like color accuracy.
Isn’t the pixel better?
At first I thought this was going to be a financial question rather than a technical question. I'm not sure if apple is batting 1000 on the technical side, see apple maps vs Google maps. But they are extremely good at branding. Nobody puts android stickers on their car. If you can manufacture an environment where people ghost their dates over green bubbles, you are winning. (Idk if that really happens, but the notion is at least in the zeitgeist.)
This is why I hate the company and boycott it. But idk, competence is a virtue as well. And they deliver such great results whereas companies with tons of potential like Google constantly squander the opportunity and play politics and do stupid shit.
Have you used Apple Maps recently? It has really redeemed itself.
Because they don't try being the best in tech but how to solve customer needs and communicate the same.
This is what Jobs has been emphasizing so many times. I wonder how this is interpreted inside among ICs and managers though? I’m joining there soon and would like to feel the same motivation for my work.
they turned a gadget into veblen luxury good. Otherwise there's nothing to them. They don't make semiconductors, they are simply first in line for the latest nodes from tsmc. they definitely don't do cpus as good as Intel/AMD and graphics as good as nvidia. The advantage lied in their access to latest node shrinks
So money wins. Idk I'm not convinced - feels like they've done more than just the node advantage. Compare them to Qualcomm snapdragon for example. And just look at the freaking M1. Even if they didn't do the heavy lifting they had the wisdom to pivot to arm.
Not so true - node shrinkage won’t bring you 2-4x performance and power efficiency over competing chips. It’s also heavily on the optimized architecture for the system
I just hope they don’t beat Meta in AR/VR
Idk... Much as I worry about Apple, I'd MUUUCH rather have a world where the Matrix is controlled by Apple than by 🦎
Better Apple than Meta
Apple is good at making devices and digital Hardware. They also focus more on the customer experience atleast in the early cycle.. They have a slight advantage here, as they are directly making/marketing the end device, vs other companies which work through secondary OEM's (so they only have to support one kind of configuration). Afterwards it is just evolution. Their software however sucks.. I have mainly used macOS, which is shit compared to linux, when run on the same hardware. They stay clear of cloud, very scaleable complex , mission critical software the kind that google does. Where is their self driving car ? As for IOS, I havent used it much, but thier walled garden approach means they can control the experience quite tightly, at the expense of choice/price for the consumers.. For the record they are not better in semiconductors in the core area of the companies you compare them with. i.e Qualcomm (core is modem design), Intel (server cpu's), or Nvidia (GPU;s). Most of them dont deal directly market to ordinary consumers, so they dont have a halo around them. Considering the size of the company their product portfolio, is extremely small and simple.. compare that with number of businesses that Google, Microsoft, Amazon have..
In short, they are relying on Apple fan boys to hype up the limited features on a decent product right ? I mean who else goes gaga over dynamic island ? In contrast, QC needs to be very strong at technology to be able to draw these OEM customers year after year
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wowzor: OP’s question is about the company; not Apple customers .