Apple’s iOS 7 Team in Deadline Crunch Mode, Adding Engineers:

Sources who declined to be named because they are forbidden to talk publicly about Apple’s plans tell AllThingsD that the company has been “borrowing” engineers from the OS X 10.9 team as part of an effort to double down on iOS 7. “Yes, yes — it’s essentially a repeat of the iPhone/Leopard scenario,” one source said, referring to Apple’s 2007 decision to pull engineers from OS X 10.5 to work on iPhone. “Not as much of a fire drill, though. It will ship on time.”

In my experience, the end result of this sort of last-minute scramble is usually a mess.

Perhaps someone can send a few copies of The Mythical Man-Month to Cupertino, with a Post-it note on the page that explains Brooks’ Law: “Adding manpower to a late software project makes it later.”