Upton Sinclair coined the oft-cited maxim “It is difficult to get a man to understand something, when his salary depends on his not understanding it.” I propose a corollary: It is difficult to get a company to see that certain of its core competencies[1] are in severe decline[2] when the company is making more money than ever.

https://daringfireball.net/linked/2026/01/30/apple-reports-r...

[1] https://daringfireball.net/2026/01/resizing_windows_macos_26

[2] https://daringfireball.net/2025/03/something_is_rotten_in_th...

I joked several years ago, that when a software company loses its way, it does UI refresh that makes everything bigger and removes features.