Do they have less software engineers, or their employees are required to be more discrete?I know but a few that work at Apple, and of those few they strike me as less forthcoming than the multitudes I've worked with and know at Microsoft. I've wondered if part of that is because Microsoft previews/pre-announces just about everything, whereas Apple (mostly, and not so much anymore) announces it when the shipping trucks show up at the local Apple store.
So the outcome from the Microsoftie is, "it'll do this that and the other, but that's all I can say right now." From a recent conversation with an Apple employee: "they make me go in a special room to use the hardware, and I can't work from home. That's all I can say."
Probably more so, last I looked, Apple has considerably fewer software employees than the other big companies.
