I used to work at Apple and this is fucking stupid.<p>Yes we had designers who slaved over every pixel and software engineers who slaved over implementing those pixels with good performance. But to say that everything comes from top down from Jobs and his apostles is just blatant hero worship.<p>While many feature requests or comments did come direct from Jobs or the designers, many of the features of products came from suggestions from all over the firm and filtered through a thick layer of middle management politics.<p>In fact, anyone in the firm could file a bug (or radar, as they were known) asking for a feature or reporting that something was wrong, and it would get plinko'ed through project managers to the appropriate developer. If everyone thought it was good suggestion, it would get done.<p>Jobs' fingerprint is definitely pressed deep into the culture of Apple, but at the end of the day, it takes thousands to make their products and we all cared deeply about quality.