Apple's 'unprecedented' engineering snafu spoiled plans for more powerful iPhone

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Long story short: Apple’s unwillingness to compete with rivals’ compensation for silicon designers led to a uniquely major failure in designing the A16.

They are struggling due to brain drain. Crazy how valuable chip engineers are. These people need 7 figure salaries to stay, but the mba/ivy class hates the concept.

There is an audio clip of Steve Jobs at FastCompany.com attributing his success to going to lengths to hire the best engineers.

Steve Jobs (Apple): "the difference between an average programmer and a great one is at least 25 to 1. In many cases, more." "That is the secret of my success, we have gone to exceptional lengths to hire the best people" tinyurl.com/y3y7xccc

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