I don’t expect a company which used body-cams on employees to go fully remote 😂 https://www.gizmochina.com/2021/06/29/apple-made-body-cams-mandatory-to-stop-leaks/ Not to mention that multi-billion dollar spaceship office they built.

Is it true tho? My brother works at Apple Bay Area as a Mech Engineer and used to spend couple of months in China pre covid. Need to ask him lol

I doubt if he’d share it. A cousin of my friend works there and he’s incredibly secretive.

Makes sense tho. being ethical I know a thing about Nvidia’s upcoming hardware launches (which would be entire different). But can’t say anything about it.

They spent $4B on that new office. Better use it :P

That’s like around 1/6th of yearly AirPod sales revenue 😛

Apple is in a unique position where secrecy of their products has direct impact on their competitive advantage, I don’t see how they’d achieve remote-only or even hybrid approach in a long run as they’re essentially outsourcing the manufacturing while still being in-charge of innovation. It is like expecting Maruti Suzuki to go remote full time, except that Maruti also manufactures for itself.

Tbh, I think this is going to be department specific.

I heard on ATP (podcast) that some of the feature flags exposed in Safari Beta (as on macOS Monterey and iOS 15) have a naming convention that somehow reflects as if new software features are exposed to dev teams internally only if they have authorization to see the feature. Which means that there are silos even between engineering teams of different apps running on same OS.

^^ Microsoft dev tweeted never before seen screenshots of Windows 11 pushed to internal users without realising public didn’t get the same updates. In that context, the internal segregation in Apple makes sense.