Comment by jjtheblunt
6 months ago
> As the article notes, several companies (Apple, Google, etc.) could (currently) afford to fund such a lab, but there is no way their management and shareholders would approve.
When I was at Apple for several years, there were definitely at least two such groups.
Recently? Apple's Advanced Technology Group seems like it was fairly successful (QuickTime, HyperCard, ColorSync, AppleScript/Apple Events, Squeak, etc.) but Steve Jobs shut it down in 1997.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apple_Advanced_Technology_Grou...
it morphed and part was in Oregon, part in Cupertino, certainly through the 2000s and 2010s. the name internally didn't seem changed but maybe it was slighty altered.