But Europe uniquely eradicates systemic innovation process regardless of current downturn. By completely ignoring its needs and diving deeper and deeper into their weird mix of socialism and government/old money controlled monopolism.

Have you seen what crap cars even german manufacturers produce lately?

100s companies are already just a wrapper around their models.

They trade a little profit margin for avoidng a mountain of risks each of those companies bear.

Eventually they will buy/kill most profitable and less risky of them (cash cows). But now they have their own problems to solve.

I doubt people developing safari and mail app are actually using them outside of work.

Apple keeps holding a “hardware company” flag, despite some occasional wins.

I understand it deeper than you think.even maybe deeper then author think he does.

The only singals that matter i already mentioned. Everything else must submit to this ultimate goal. If that’s the case there is no reason to invent anything even metaphorically speaking. And platform requirements arise naturally to exact extent the user problem justifies, not more not less etc.

This is probably a fundamental philosophical division between “engineers” who love to engineer for the sake of engineering, who are arrogant enough to treat their trade as an art form even.

And between mere mortals, regular engineers, who are hungry for solving real world problems as efficiently and quickly as possible.

Instead of figuring out the mess and navigating the peculiarities of another “platform team” in a big org.

For example

> Thankfully, the signals that help us to invent work are already out there, and they arrive from four directions - from the systems, from the users, from your organization, and from the industry. What follows is a guide to reading each of them.

In a good “ideal” org the only source of requirements should be users, aka customers, aka real people, user facing products, teams etc.

There must be no room for speculations and “engineering” (aka over engineering), nor performance review driven development.

I would personally fire anyone “inventing” work. Even if it’s myself.

Otherwise having same password on every service doesn’t look secure, and what would you need to do if it’s compromised.

No amount of pseudo-philocophical and quasi-historical research can change this basic fact.

Naive attempt of some buddhists to reduce (in their eyes of course its the highest compliment) other religion figures to mere "buddha" label is nothing but silly, laymen kitchen theology. It is disrespectful to both buddhism and other religion.

And apples are oranges.

Sorry they are completely different traits. They can go hand in hand or support each other in certain individual, or they can manifest similarly, but its far from being a general rule.

Far beyond mouse, stylus wich are themselves infinitely superior to touchscreen.

that means your "spec" is essentially a code and the point you're trying to make is empty

If european innovative companies and small businesses flourish in 10 years - I'll be the first to apologize and admit the mistake.

But there are just no signs of it today. While plenty of signs and data supporting my point.

Those 2 instances were actually pretty enjoyable, educational and very productive team work.

I don't see that anymore these days. I only see teams adopting bits of it (mostly "sprints" idea) without actually trying to make the whole thing work. To some degree - WFH was the last nail in the coffin.

To be fair modern big tech are not made for this. Overwhelming levels of bureacracy, accidental complexity, cross org friction just ruins the "agile" ideas and intended dynamics.