Comment by amelius
5 years ago
> Apple has long been extremely compartmentalised
Oh, I have been told that Apple could only build such great products because of the tight integration that would never be possible if Apple was split into e.g. a hardware and software company.
Apple only feels compartmentalised if (a) you're a low level engineer and (b) you're working on a secretive project. Otherwise it's a normal big tech company.
But the team responsible for writing all of the Forth firmware code very much worked closely with the hardware teams as you would expect.