Macworld - USA (2022-01)

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A

pple gets a lot of flak for its “my
way or the highway” approach
to, well, pretty much
everything: App Store terms,
product design, colors, and so on. While
that’s an approach that definitely has its
benefits—you can tell when committees
start getting involved in the design, and

the end result is rarely good—it also lends

itself to a degree of obduracy that can be

frustrating for any other parties that have

to deal with the company.

But that philosophy doesn’t mean that

Apple isn’t willing to make changes when

it needs to. Innovation is, after all, another

one of the company’s hallmarks, and

Change (Apple) = Force x

acceleration

Change at Apple is slow unless outside pressure is applied.

BY DAN MOREN