On: Apple is run like a huge startup (and the remote app was written by 1 guy)

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Very similar in a way to what I read on this post: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1568395 (7 Scaling Strategies Facebook Used To Grow To 500 Million Users)

  Small, Independent Teams. Small teams 
  allow work to be done efficiently, quickly, 
  and carefully. Only three people work on photos, for
  example, the largest photo site on the internet.