Since its inception, Apple has developed software and hardware together, thus achieving to offer its users high quality, performance and efficiency equipment and devices that often do not require as many components as those used by other brands. Now this idea will be expanded to the service sector for the same purpose.
As reported by Bloomberg, Apple is planning to unify all its cloud services work teams, including Siri, Apple Maps, iCloud, Apple Pay, News, and part of iTunes and Apple Music. All of them will merge and work together at the company's headquarters at number 1 Infinite Loop in Cupertino, California.
Apple services, better together from the start
From its earliest beginnings, one of the essential pillars of Apple's philosophy has been that to build the perfect team, or close to it, it is necessary for the hardware and software to be developed together, for each other. This is how it has managed to create a complete and efficient ecosystem in which machines and software are understood to such a high level that no other company has yet been capable. But over the years, and the tremendous success of the company, it began to develop more and more services which must also understand each other as well as possible in order to offer the best possible user experience. In this way, that philosophy that is part of Apple's genetics will now go a step further by expanding to services. As simple as that if we want Siri and Maps to marry perfectly, both development teams must work together.
With this idea, Apple to relocate all cloud development teams to one location it offers. It will be at its headquarters in Cupertino where the iCloud, Maps, News, Siri, Apple Pay, iTunes and Music teams will begin to work hand in hand.
As revealed in the Bloomberg report, moving development teams to a single location is intended to provide a certain harmony and homogeneity to the growth of Apple services. And is that so far these teams have been distributed throughout several office buildings in Cupertino and Sunnyvale, which contributed to some errors software and slowed the development of certain products.
Considering the state of the works for the new Apple Campus, which will house more than 13.000 employees of the company, it is likely that in the fairly near future these cloud services teams will be forced to move again. Apple CEO Tim Cook said that the company will begin relocating employees to the new headquarters in 2017.
But in addition, Apple's plans go further because the intention seems to be to unify all these services under a single team It goes by the code name "Pie," according to the Bloomberg report. This infrastructure change would give Apple "more control" and could speed up development times.
Apple has begun moving parts of Siri, the iTunes Store, and Apple News to the new platform, one of the people said. Apple plans to move other services, including maps, to its new system in the coming years. Apple has also developed an internal photo storage system dubbed McQueen to gradually end its reliance on Google and Amazon servers, the people said.
McQueen, a new cloud storage system
Last March, it was reported that Apple was already working on a cloud storage system called "McQueen" that would reduce its dependence on services from third-party companies such as Amazon Web Services, Microsoft Azure and Google Cloud Platform. The Bloomberger news specifies that it is a photo storage system.
On the verge of knowing the latest financial results, while Apple has experienced a decline in hardware sales throughout the year, service profits have increased by 19%, so it is not surprising that the company want to reinforce this aspect.
Unify the services, it is true, as long as you have iOS 10 on your iPhone and on your mac, Close. Which forces you to have the latest equipment. Today, for example, when updating the iPhone, it sends me a verification key to the iPad, but since it is a mini2 the sad identification number did not arrive because the mini 2 is not upgradeable to iOS 10 and neither to the mac, because it does not have Close but Yosemite . financially, it is not possible for me to keep up with them. it is not possible to change equipment every 2 years.
Hello John. Well, the idea of unifying service development teams is not just so that services are better "understood" between different teams, but so that they are better integrated with each other and more effective and efficient. For example, within the same iPhone, Siri and Maps understand each other better.