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Apple is run like a huge startup (and the remote app was written by 1 guy)

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Re: Apple is run like a huge startup (and the remote app was written by 1 guy)

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Post by chc »

lovskogen wrote: post #3

Because of the Remote App was written by one guy, Apple is a huge startup?

No. Nobody said that. It's an example of how Apple works. Rather than having large teams with hordes of managers, Apple has a bunch of engineers who are trusted to be competent and work on whatever's needed. This way of working is more akin to a startup than a typical BigCo.

Re: Apple is run like a huge startup (and the remote app was written by 1 guy)

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Post by lovskogen »

chc wrote: post #4
lovskogen wrote: post #3

Because of the Remote App was written by one guy, Apple is a huge startup?

No. Nobody said that. It's an example of how Apple works. Rather than having large teams with hordes of managers, Apple has a bunch of engineers who are trusted to be competent and work on whatever's needed. This way of working is more akin to a startup than a typical BigCo.

But is it so with everything, and not just the Remote App? Apple seems kinda far from bing a huge startup in many ways.

Re: Apple is run like a huge startup (and the remote app was written by 1 guy)

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Post by bradgessler »

lovskogen wrote: post #3

Because of the Remote App was written by one guy, Apple is a huge startup?

No, that's just an interesting fact from the article. I assumed they assembled a crack-team of iPhone engineers to bang this out. I was surprised that one person put together such a high-quality app, especially in a company that could afford to throw lots of money/developers/teams to solve this problem.

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Post by commandar »

"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."

As somebody who has been rather dismayed with the way the Macintosh platform has started to stagnate in the past couple of years, I don't really view this as a good thing.

Re: Apple is run like a huge startup (and the remote app was written by 1 guy)

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Post by Hates_ »

Very similar in a way to what I read on this post: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1568395 (7 Scaling Strategies Facebook Used To Grow To 500 Million Users)

  Small, Independent Teams. Small teams 
  allow work to be done efficiently, quickly, 
  and carefully. Only three people work on photos, for
  example, the largest photo site on the internet.

Re: Apple is run like a huge startup (and the remote app was written by 1 guy)

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Post by tcdent »

lovskogen wrote: post #6
chc wrote: post #4

Earlier quoted context omitted.

No. Nobody said that. It's an example of how Apple works. Rather than having large teams with hordes of managers, Apple has a bunch of engineers who are trusted to be competent and work on whatever's needed. This way of working is more akin to a startup than a typical BigCo.

But is it so with everything, and not just the Remote App? Apple seems kinda far from bing a huge startup in many ways.

This article does suggest Apple works this way with everything. Of course Apple isn't a startup; they're a multi-billion dollar 35-year-old company, but they do take a similar approach to organizing their teams.
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