Safari 16.4 Is an Admission

Re:Safari 16.4 Is an Admission by shuckles on Thursday February 23, 2023 @02:22AM (#34907804)

I like the part of the post where the author cites a page with 8-9 job ads as a “hiring spree” and a bunch of posts by a single author, Jen Simmons, as evidence of a huge reallocation of talent.

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Re:Safari 16.4 Is an Admission by adiabatty on Thursday February 23, 2023 @02:48AM (#34907984)

I've been wondering about this. 8-9 people would probably beef up the WebKit team a fair bit, judging by how fast features come out in WebKit betas.

For a while, I've figured that Apple tends to feel like it's got a self-imposed software-engineer shortage, judging from the long lists of bugs that they have. I've heard some people say that it's mostly a talent-allocation issue by management that seems to have other priorities or misplaced priorities or something. However, since Radar/Feedback Assistant acts like /dev/null most of the time, I figure they just need more engineers to actually work through the list of not-absolutely-critical bugs and spend more engineer-hours getting their software right.

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Re:Safari 16.4 Is an Admission by shuckles on Thursday February 23, 2023 @11:03AM (#34912269)

Apple runs famously lean. Given they out-execute most of their competitors with a fraction of the headcount, maybe they’re onto something.

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