There’re private in a sense that there isn’t internal registry where you can just look up anyone like at google. From what i can observe over years apple has almost exactly same perf culture as google and any other similarly sized company in the US
Right, if you look from very far away and put "all large US company" in the same bag.
Otherwise, if you zoom on "Silicon Valley Tech Companies" then Apple and Google's perf process and associated incentives look quite radically different in many aspects.
Why are they still able to continuously pushed out great products and keep innovating? What’s your hypothesis?
Big assumption that Apple is indeed innovating right now. Yeah, M1 was a great innovation, but before that, the iPhone was the previous innovation. Everything between has just been iterations basically, so I disagree with your assumption that Apple is in-fact highly innovative.
What am I missing?
Watch and AirPods are literally the most popular and profitable products in their market. The iPad dominates, too.