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zoetmb said:

In spite of the technical and engineering hurdles, I have to wonder why a company with all of Apple's resources can't get it done.   While 9 mothers can't make a baby in one month, I've always been bemused when I've read that some of the Apple development teams are actually quite small.    According to reports, Apple has 123,000 worldwide employees.  Aside from support, internal IT, HR and sales, what the hell do they all do?   Apple still has a quite small product line compared to most other manufacturing companies.  

You need to stop and think about what apple produces: pencil. watch. ipad. iphone. headphones. airpods, chargers. speakers. apple tv. macbook. imac. keyboards. mice (mouses?). a gazillion little accessories. Dongles. And that's just hardware. There's also three OS's, and hundreds of apps, websites in multiple languages, developer tools.  That's just software. There's also support, marketing, training, divisions for education, business, research, and so on. 

If there's one thing I've learned in over three decades writing software, engineering teams are often much, much smaller than you might imagine. I've known some very successful, very expensive software from hundred million dollar companies that was developed and maintained by just three or four people. It wouldn't surprise me in the slightest if the charging pad team was made up of just three or four full time engineers.

Even though Apple is huge, they create a tremendous amount of stuff. 

nunzy said:

Steve Jobs was a saint. A creative genius. And the best huckster the world has ever seen. He made billions of dollars.

A saint? I think that's the first time I ever heard that! Creative genius? You bet. Best huckster? Rivaled only by P.T. Barnum himself. 

He made billions of dollars. That's just basic math. 

Since it doesn't support multi-room audio, that makes me think it doesn't support airplay. WTF?