
Verplichte kost voor iedereen die wil weten hoe Apple werkt
Rick Tetzeli heeft al eerder laten zien dat hij erg goed begrijpt hoe Apple werkt, en dat hij de benodigde ingangen heeft in Cupertino. Dat was onder andere te zien in zijn uitstekende biografie
Becoming Steve Jobs, dat volgens zo'n beetje alle mensen die hem goed gekend hebben een veel beter beeld geeft van Steve Jobs dan de eerdere biografie van Walter Isaacson.
Ook dit keer heeft Rick Tetzeli weer een aantal mensen van het management van Apple uitgebreid te spreken gekregen, en de interviews zijn eigenlijk verplichte kost voor iedereen die Apple graag volgt en wil weten hoe er binnen het bedrijf gedacht wordt.
In het hoofdartikel komen Apple's CEO Tim Cook, Senior Vice President Internet Software and Services Eddy Cue en Senior Vice President Software Engineering Craig Federighi allemaal uitgebreid aan het woord. Dat artikel is
hier te lezen.

Verplichte kost voor iedereen die wil weten hoe Apple werkt
Zo kunnen we in dit artikel bijvoorbeeld lezen hoe het falen van de Kaarten-app toen die voor het eerst live ging heeft gezorgd voor onder ander het public-beta programma, en hoe er bij Apple over innovatie gedacht wordt.
Cook also forced his execs to re-examine, and change, the way they worked with development teams. Famous for being secretive, Apple opened up a bit. "We made significant changes to all of our development processes because of it," says Cue, who now oversees Maps. "To all of us living in Cupertino, the maps for here were pretty darn good. Right? So [the problem] wasnt obvious to us. We were never able to take it out to a large number of users to get that feedback. Now we do."
Apple now does public beta testing of its most significant software projects, something that Jobs never liked to do. In 2014, the company asked users to test run its Yosemite upgrade to OS X. Last year, it introduced beta testing of iOS, which is the companys most important operating system. "The reason you as a customer are going to be able to test iOS," Cue says, "is because of Maps."
What Apple has accomplished with Maps is an example of the kind of grind-it-out innovation that's happening all the time at the company. You don't hear a lot about it, perhaps because it doesn't support the enthralling myth that innovation comes in blinding flashes that lead to hitherto unimaginable products. When critics ding Apple for its failure to introduce "breakthrough" devices and services, they are missing three key facts about technology: First, that breakthrough moments are unpredictable outcomes of ongoing, incremental innovation; second, that ongoing, behind-the-scenes innovation brings significant benefits, even if it fails to create singular disruptions; and, third, that new technologies only connect broadly when a mainstream audience is ready and has a compelling need. "The world thinks we delivered [a breakthrough] every year while Steve was here," says Cue. "Those products were developed over a long period of time."
Wil je ook nog meer weten over Apple Music en één van de belangrijke mensen daar achter, dan is
dit interview van Rick Tetzeli met Bozoma Saint John ook een aanrader.
What can you tell me about what you have learned about race and gender in corporate America? Some women and minorities have described the feeling of having to be twice as good to get where they want to go.
I always find that question quite funny, because I don't have another experience. The experience I have is this. This body, this is it. I don't have anything else to compare it to. Frankly, I think it is unfair to me, if I did it to myself, to say, "I wonder how this experience has been different to mine?" It would undercut my own successes and my own passion and my own journey. I really don't do that. This experience is what I have. Do I work hard? Hell, yeah. Am I passionate about what I do? Yes. Do I hope I have a future in this? Absolutely. Do I hope nobody gets in my way? They better not.