The company rescued from insolvency with Microsoft money and reversed buy from NeXT, and only managed to get out of red thanks to the iPod and what came later, regardless of the office structure.
Conway’s law may result in products’ appeal, thus what people are willing to pay for.
This is correct. The first capacitive touchscreen phone was the LG Prada.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LG_Prada
Interestingly, it came out just before the iPhone, and LG even alleged that Apple had stolen the idea from them. Considering how Jobs stole a bunch of ideas from PARC, and Apple really doesn't have a history of inventing anything, but rather taking other peoples' ideas and commercializing them better, it seems very plausible.