How is Apple so cohesive?

I am not an Apple employee or ex-employee. But I did work with some ex-Apple product people.

Actually, it wasn't great. They were very authoritarian and would do project management over chains of forty, fifty emails. Requests to fix location lookups for emergency services users (fire / police / ambulance) were de-prioritised in favour of being sent emails of CSS changes. Our first release was terrifying.

(Obviously, I can't divulge who this employer was. They aren't on my LinkedIn either)

They expected a design led company, and it showed: we were great at presenting a unified brand and polished user experience. But any other practicality was discarded.

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