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Using an iPhone X only proves to me that Apple engineers make incredible software that just work....when they want to. The app switching on iPhone X is perfect bc there was probably a team on that. The problem isn’t new stuff it’s old stuff. Like is there a team just working on Disk Utility or maybe just one dude who checks iOS and macOS for date/time problems. They need a few more people.

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I thought we had all decided that throwing more people at a software problem isn’t a viable solution.

Throwing more people at a software problem isn't a viable solution to meet a deadline.

Obviously there is benefit to adding more people, it's just that that benefit takes time to offset the cost of onboarding.

Communication does place an upper limit on the number of people who can work on a specific project, and later the total number of projects that can interact.

Something exploratory like what what the GP was suggesting doesn't require huge teams or a lot of interaction between teams, at least until the problems are identified and need to actually be resolved.

That's only if we're talking about a single codebase.

Throwing more people at different programs, where they are needed, e.g. some to work on Mail.app, some to work on a better Calendar, some to work on Pages, etc, is a totally viable solution.

This isn’t one software problem, it’s a shitload of software problems.

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