In recent years, we have seen how the software that Apple designs is plagued with security issues, problems that, although it is true, can be solved quickly through updates, they should not be present in a company that takes care of even the smallest detail. One of the most recent software problems is found in the Group calls via FaceTime on iOS.
Apple has always created hardware-specific software, allowing teams to operate with much higher performance than other devices. The latest rumor that comes to us from the offices in Cupertino is found in the number of hires, where it seems that the priority is focused on software and not hardware.
According to Thinknum, Apple is constantly looking for software engineers at least is what is deduced after checking the jobs that Apple has made available to interested parties since the third quarter of 2018. This data have been drawn directly from the job bank.
This website has been collecting job data that Apple is constantly searching for since 2016. This is the first time Apple has changed its hiring approach since to date, although since it does not have any prior to that year, we cannot know if it is the first time it has done so in the last decade.
Now that sales of iPhone and other devices in general have started to decline, services and software are vitally important to Apple right now. The services division has seen its income increased steadily in recent years and soon it plans to continue increasing it thanks to the new subscriptions that it plans to present such as the news subscription service, the streaming video service ...