Apple engineers are perfectionists. We obsess over every tiny detail you'll never notice.
When building offline Siri, we spent weeks testing edge cases like airplane mode handoffs, battery drain scenarios, and voice recognition in noisy environments.
Luca
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ex- Built first offline Siri - bit.ly/3nyfKg2
⚡Building strikeprice.app to help people selling options safer and making a steady side income
San Francisco, CA
Born July 23
Joined November 2010
- You can tell Apple doesn’t sell your data. I have an email I only use for Apple development stuff and after many years I still only receive emails from Apple and zero spam.
- Fun fact about Apple (from an ex-engineer) AirPods switching between devices isn't magic or AI. It's literally a coin flip in the code when multiple devices are nearby 😂 That's why it picks your Mac when you want your iPhone half the time!
- Fun fact about Apple (from an ex- engineer) Did you know that (many times) people appearing in Apple products material on the Apple website are employees? No, it's not because Apple is cheap, even though it is lol. It's to recognize some of the team members that took part
- Since yesterday video of Lady Gaga concert at Apple Park was received positively, here is another song for you folks.
00:00 - Siri works, it's not a product problem, it's a user problem. I worked on it (many years ago) for years and I learned how to ask for things so that it actually works. Post what doesn't work for you and I will comment with how you can phrase it to make it work. If I can't make
- For all Apple Liquid Glass haters. User Interface changes can be scary. But I think it will be beautiful, just give Apple few weeks to react to all edge cases reported by seed users, do some tuning, and they will end up shipping a great experience.
00:00 - Do you really think there is a lab underground Apple Park? I am sorry to be the myth buster here…but underground Apple Park there is… …. Apple park(ing). Just a regular parking garage
00:00 - Apple engineers rarely get recognized publicly. But here's something cool - many people in Apple's marketing materials are actually employees, not models. Try Google some of the names in the image
- Fun fact about Apple (from an ex- engineer). Did you know that you can place a small ball (like ping pong) on the stairs rail in Apple Park and it will safely make it to the bottom of the stairs passing floor after floor? The stairs are the same in the visitor center so you
- Fun fact about Apple (from an ex- engineer) Did you know that Apple employees badges colors are assigned randomly? You can get one among blue, green, pink, orange, purple, violet, red, and yellow. Every Monday new employees join the company and on that day you get to take your
- Fun fact about Apple (from an ex- engineer) Did you know that Apple employees eat free food after 7pm? While employees pay for breakfast, launch, coffee, and snacks, dinner if consumed after 7pm is free. This is because it means you stayed late at work and you deserve to be









