By the way, I did catch the rant you posted before. I tried to reply to it but after writing it up and hitting reply, you had already deleted it.
You've gone ahead and made it the first goal in the context of all goals a company has (thus making it 'primary').
That's not a legal move :)
Re-reading my own post - the bit you narrowed in on is the least interesting and controversial in my mind.
We know rich parents do all sorts of things to pad their kids' resumes to get into fancy schools. We know kids game the system to get highest possible grades. We know kids grind leetcode to get the job. We know companies prioritize hiring according to school, grades, ability to pass leetcode. We know people very often prioritize their career trajectory above needs of the company. We know companies prioritize stock price over delivering value to consumers.
I just shortened into a single sentence and you've misunderstood it to mean something bizarre. Oh well.
I said they need to, not that I think they will. But they have in the past. There is a reason Snow Leopard is still lauded today.
> It's just very low quality relative to what people who've written software for a living know to be possible.
No, it’s low quality relative to what Apple users came to expect. There was a time when “it just works” was an aspirational goal which permeated their decisions and you could see the results.
> Apple is a prestigious jobs guarantee program for rich kids first, entity that delivers value to consumers second.
What a bizarre conspiracy theory. No company gets to that stratospheric level of success by making hiring incompetent rich kids their primary goal.