content: A part of me thinks this would have never happened under Job's leadership. He was a notoriously anal perfectionist when it came to testing everything, to make sure it ran smoothly every time. He would make engineers weep like babies for committing, what to him were, amateur mistakes in design. He would instantly trash any hardware propositions which included using dongles; just to give some perspective on the direction of current-day Apple. His autistic visionary direction and ability to motivate his staff to achieve what they thought was impossible is gone. People seem to forget that Apple fomented its image as a high-end luxury brand by actually doing/making cool things. They no longer do/make cool things; now all they do is arbitrarily change shit around to make it "smaller"/"simplified". When's the last time they made anything new that wasn't simply a touch-up of something they've already made? That's a huge fucking problem for them. They need to hire a bunch of high IQ autists with engineering, design, and research backgrounds— throw them in a room together with a giant mountain of cash. Just leave them be and check in on them from time to time, like a modern Oracle of Delphi, if they want to have any hope of surviving in the long run. *edit: I also just now realize the irony of basically telling Apple that in order to survive, they need to become Xerox— but actually listen to their own fucking advice.