So let's start with some follow up.

Why did Chris Lattner decide to leave Apple?

Well, last week we talked about this and we tried to list all the reasons we could think

of why he might be leaving.

And I think we covered most of the major threads of speculation and we didn't really get

a lot of listener feedback about it.

Anybody who did reply was mostly voting for one of the things we talked about.

But here's the thing on this topic.

Unless there's some kind of like secret doomsday thing about Apple that only Chris knows, it's

not actually that important that we figure out like why he left Apple or like what was

in his heart of hearts.

Like aside from just us being busy bodies, they're just wanting to know like gossip type

stuff.

And second, pragmatically speaking, this is just not the type of thing that people who

leave Apple talk about.

Or you know, if they do talk about it, it's like years and years later after no one cares

anymore or you know, like it's not a big deal.

So even if there was some deep dark reason, it's not like we would know about it until years

from now.

The straightforward boring explanation is probably the right one anyway.

So you know, I don't know.

What do you think Chris?

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