Yes, they don't ever openly admit mistakes.

But they do quietly drop or fix them, covertly acknowledging they were mistakes. Often with this messaging: "we have this new shiny thing that is even better than the old shiny thing (that was really a turd)".

Remember "garbage collection"? Or "modern syntax"? Or CocoaJava?

And with hardware they had their "come to Jesus" moment a while ago. And then hit it out of the ballpark with Apple Silicon.

The one for software is still upcoming.