Apple's central planning society
I read "Inside every chief exec, there's a Soviet Planner" about 4
months ago. Since then, all I can do is equate Apple with a centrally
planned economy.
exercises over the App Store. There are clear benefits to this model
early on. Apple can exercise a central vision over all of the
applications in the store, create a minimum standard for user
experience, and engender trust by screening out the bad apples. However, with 1 billion+ downloads, does this central planning become
too unwieldy? The larger the number of downloads, the bigger the
bottleneck becomes. Sure you can throw extra bodies at the approval
process, but those new hires are less likely to be fully indoctrinated
into the full vision, and pretty soon an application gets through that
gives the entire company a black eye. Adjustments will be made, but in a rigid structure, these adjustments
will be less fluid.