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Apple sells around 300 million devices a year. So has somewhere north of a billion active devices at any given moment. ~1k new apps ship on the app store each day, so >365k per year.

Apple has ~154k employees.

It's a completely intractable problem. No single person or developer matters in the smallest way. Any complaint or bug that doesn't break at least 5 digit numbers is invisible unless you're paying for Apple's engineering time. It's a function of the numbers in play.





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