February 2022 • Macworld 109

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, colours,

and so on. While that’s an approach

that definitely has its benefits – you

Change at Apple is slow unless outside pressure is applied. Dan

Moren reports

Change (Apple) =

Force x acceleration

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