FWIW, I know several current engineers at Apple who wrote ground-breaking stuff before the Mac even existed. Apple certainly doesn't have any problem with older engineers, and it turns out that transferring that expertise to new chips on demand isn't particularly hard for them.
> Apple certainly doesn't have any problem with older engineers
Just to be clear, I never meant to suggest that they did—I just didn't realize employees remained with the company for that long, instead of switching.
