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There's somewhere in the ballpark of 166,000 employees at Apple, just unfathomable scale [1]. It is not unreasonable to ask that someone specific is responsible

There's somewhere in the ballpark of 166,000 employees at Apple, just unfathomable scale [1]. It is not unreasonable to ask that someone specific is responsible for each particular small feature and ensuring it keeps working. Trying to apply an economic analysis to such a "free as in beer" operating system does not seem to work well. Consider the question of "how many small holes can you have in your wooden sailing ship"? [1] https://stockanalysis.com/stocks/aapl/employees/ https://stockanalysis.com/stocks/aapl/employees/

akerl_ 5mo ago
It’s not unreasonable to ask but they can and are saying “no”.
laserlight 5mo ago
Not that it impacts your argument significantly, but for the sake of completeness, Apple employs a huge number of retail employees.
- AlexandrB 5mo ago
  Yes. A more useful number would be how many employees are working on macOS specifically. Hard to find a definitive number for that.
  - saagarjha 5mo ago
    Less than 1% of that number. Of course this is hard to actually count properly since there is a lot of shared work across platforms.