<story><title>John Giannandrea named to Apple’s executive team</title><url>https://www.apple.com/newsroom/2018/12/john-giannandrea-named-to-apples-executive-team/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>starshadowx2</author><text>9 women can&amp;#x27;t make a baby in a month but 9 women can make 9 babies in 9 months instead of 1 woman making 1 in 9 months.&lt;p&gt;More people can work on more&amp;#x2F;different things in the same period of time, thereby increasing total work done. (Parallel vs sequential and all that..)</text></item><item><author>e1ven</author><text>They can&amp;#x27;t just throw more random people at the problem - Adding too many developers can slow projects down and make them less likely to work.
(9 women can&amp;#x27;t make a baby in a month, and all that..)&lt;p&gt;The guy this post is about just came from Google, where he lead on the stuff you&amp;#x27;re praising. He can push these efforts in the right direction, and help make other strategic hires..&lt;p&gt;Isn&amp;#x27;t this exactly what you want?</text></item><item><author>m0zg</author><text>It&amp;#x27;s just unbelievable to me that the company sitting on a quarter trillion dollars is unwilling to spend a small fraction of that hoard to hire the best of the best in order to fix the very thing that will kill their cash cow in the next 5 years. I&amp;#x27;m on iOS myself (and have been faithful since the first iPhone), but $30 Google Home puck feels like it&amp;#x27;s from the future. Understands me perfectly, comes up with decent answers, doesn&amp;#x27;t require rigid commands, etc. Whereas Siri is so bad I use it only to set alarms and timers. Not even setting of reminders is reliable.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>smileysteve</author><text>Sure, but then you try to make the children be playmates, and only 3 might work for a while, 1 might be a jerk that hurts the others; and 5 years down the road, you move anyway, so you only have 1 baby.&lt;p&gt;^ Sticking to the analogy when it comes to integrating into business; competing products, and which one actually maintains adoption.&lt;p&gt;9 babies in 9 months is basically what Google has done with its messaging apps.</text></comment>
<story><title>John Giannandrea named to Apple’s executive team</title><url>https://www.apple.com/newsroom/2018/12/john-giannandrea-named-to-apples-executive-team/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>starshadowx2</author><text>9 women can&amp;#x27;t make a baby in a month but 9 women can make 9 babies in 9 months instead of 1 woman making 1 in 9 months.&lt;p&gt;More people can work on more&amp;#x2F;different things in the same period of time, thereby increasing total work done. (Parallel vs sequential and all that..)</text></item><item><author>e1ven</author><text>They can&amp;#x27;t just throw more random people at the problem - Adding too many developers can slow projects down and make them less likely to work.
(9 women can&amp;#x27;t make a baby in a month, and all that..)&lt;p&gt;The guy this post is about just came from Google, where he lead on the stuff you&amp;#x27;re praising. He can push these efforts in the right direction, and help make other strategic hires..&lt;p&gt;Isn&amp;#x27;t this exactly what you want?</text></item><item><author>m0zg</author><text>It&amp;#x27;s just unbelievable to me that the company sitting on a quarter trillion dollars is unwilling to spend a small fraction of that hoard to hire the best of the best in order to fix the very thing that will kill their cash cow in the next 5 years. I&amp;#x27;m on iOS myself (and have been faithful since the first iPhone), but $30 Google Home puck feels like it&amp;#x27;s from the future. Understands me perfectly, comes up with decent answers, doesn&amp;#x27;t require rigid commands, etc. Whereas Siri is so bad I use it only to set alarms and timers. Not even setting of reminders is reliable.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>danso</author><text>Sorry, but is there some kind evidence that Giannandeea is incabale of the strategy and logistics needed to manage multiple projects in parallel?</text></comment>