alt Hacker NewsYou are unwittingly confirming his point. Apple isn't randomly working on random stuff, they know exactly where their bread is buttered - features that have potential of diminishing that butter get skipped, neglected or implemented half-baked.
You are unwittingly confirming his point. Apple isn't randomly working on random stuff, they know exactly where their bread is buttered - features that have potential of diminishing that butter get skipped, neglected or implemented half-baked.
It depends on how you look at it.
From my perspective, Google tends to focus on somewhat niche features that will benefit a small slice of web apps. In contrast, the things Apple works on are those that benefit everything from static blog sites to huge commercial web apps.
I wish Google were more like Apple in this regard, because the primitives from which everything web is built are still overwhelmingly crude, which results in the half-ton-truck-built-on-a-golf-cart frameworks and apps the web has become famous for. Making the web reasonable to develop for without a dependency tree that looks like a spiral fractal would do way more to make it flourish as a platform than things like access to the GPU and USB devices.