I’ve been curious as to why certain Apple projects aren’t updated immediately as new products hit. Let’s take Apple’s Remote application for example. It’s something so simple yet so useful you think Apple would have updated the little guy for the Retina Display right? And just think about the potential of navigating your iTunes library on the giant iPad screen! None of these things have happened, and a lot of us feel that Apple has forgotten about some of their App Store utilities.
Today, we have an explanation.
Apple’s Remote application was developed by one sole engineer, who has been tasked with working on a separate project. Quite simply, Apple’s workforce is kept to a minimum, and their handymen are often asked to provide assistance for mission critical projects. I can live without a remote app that hasn’t been updated for the Retina Display (it’s still useful), though I’m looking forward to additional enhancements that may be added to the utility as time is allotted to update the app.
One day you might be working on the Remote app, and the next day you might get pulled on to another project that needs your help.
The engineers on the Mac OS and iOS teams move back and forth between the two projects based on release cycles and what’s needs to ship next.
[Sachin’s Posterous via MacRumors]
