Yeah I'm curious why he left. From what I could tell it sounded like changes in Swift took an act of congress basically. Which is fine, and how it should be, given how important it is to get it right. I wonder where he went.
My understanding is he just doesn't really know how to work in a big company.
Meh. I know "how to work in a big company" and choose not to. Talented people will always do whatever they want.
You choose not to, but you could if you wanted to, right? He apparently wanted to, otherwise he wouldn't have gone to Apple in the first place, but he just doesn't know how to work in a corporate environment. In fact, he says as much in this tweet: https://twitter.com/mxcl/status/773574683518119936
You seem to be looking at this through a somewhat unusual prism.
You and I both "know how" to eat discarded food out of a trash dumpster.
But absent some truly compelling reason, we wouldn't choose to do so, right?
Really? I didn't know that. I'm sure he has plenty of options though.