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It’s getting cloudy over at Apple.

Nice little turn of phrase there, Tom Krazit!

A new book from BuzzFeed News’ Alex Kantrowitz reported that Apple’s internal engineering teams operate “in a state of tumult,” staffed by contractors from different firms that find themselves in constant conflict over resources and priorities. “Until Apple gives the division a hard look, its employees will be stuck spending their time reworking broken internal software, and wishing they were inventing instead,” he wrote.

The book in question is Always Day One, released April 7th.

In late 2018, Apple announced plans to invest $10 billion in data center construction over the next five years, adding capacity in Iowa alongside five existing data centers.

I’ve always wondered when Apple would follow their “own the entire stack” approach (that has seen them use their chip-design prowess to create and extend their hardware lead in the phone space) to wean themselves from dependence on Amazon’s cloud expertise as “one of AWS’ biggest customers”.

Looks like that day is arriving.