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This is not related to their release schedule, it has to do with the certificates used to validate software. You can view an explanation of application level co

This is not related to their release schedule, it has to do with the certificates used to validate software. You can view an explanation of application level code signing here [0] and the concepts also apply to signing OS images. [0] https://developer.apple.com/library/mac/documentation/Security/Conceptual/CodeSigningGuide/AboutCS/AboutCS.html#//apple_ref/doc/uid/TP40005929-CH3-SW3 https://developer.apple.com/library/mac/documentation/Securi...

mikeash 11y ago
I believe they're saying that it is related to Apple's release schedule because having a hard deadline every year and a fixed feature set for that hard deadline means that you run into problems with quality. I would dearly love for Apple to take a year or two (or, hell, five, I'm happy with the current feature set) and just fix bugs. No new features, just bugs. Do another Snow Leopard release, or three.
- x0x0 11y ago
  I have a cron script that hard kills finder hourly because it eats a gig of ram and gets slower and slower until there is typing lag in it My partner's itunes refuses to reliably see her iphone. TimeMachine shits the bed on the regular. SMB appears to be the future but TimeMachine still requires brittle afp. On a 15-in late 2013 laptop with 10.10.current, about once out of every 20 times I open the lid the laptop doesn't wake up. Even when it does wake up there is a black screen for a noticeable amount of time. This never used to happen on 10.9. Apps regularly lose the ability to create audio (spotify, chrome, vlc) if you let them run too long. The solution is to sudo killall audiod. etc etc etc
  - astrange 11y ago
    http://bugreport.apple.com/ http://bugreport.apple.com/
- PhantomGremlin 11y ago
  I don't know Tim Cook, but I don't think anything will get better under his watch. Certainly, people grow, but his background has been as a "make the trains run on time" kind of guy. So that's probably what he most cares about. Here are some of his previous jobs[1]: - 12 years in IBM's personal computer business, ultimately serving as the director of North American fulfillment - vice president for corporate materials at Compaq - closed factories and warehouses, replacing them with contract manufacturers - advance investment in flash memory from 2005 onwards, guaranteeing stable supply A logical extension of stuff like "fulfillment", "corporate materials", and "stable supply" would be: "release new software on a regular basis". No? Still, what is the commercial alternative? Win 10? Not for me! [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tim_Cook https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tim_Cook
- wwweston 11y ago
  The funny thing is you can kindof tell Apple sortof heard the complaints out there, and that some of the buzz around El Capitan was that this is what it was supposed to be. From what El Capitan is... it seems reasonable to conclude that either they simply don't have the management/talent to pull this off anymore, or they only care enough to pretend to do it rather than actually focus on it.
  - kalleboo 11y ago
    Anecdotal of course, but El Cap really did solve all of the instability and weirdness I had with Yosemite. I went from rebooting once a week due to random slowdowns (typing lag), graphical glitches or freezes back to rebooting only when there was an OS update. AirDrop still doesn't work though...

mikeash 11y ago

I believe they're saying that it is related to Apple's release schedule because having a hard deadline every year and a fixed feature set for that hard deadline means that you run into problems with quality. I would dearly love for Apple to take a year or two (or, hell, five, I'm happy with the current feature set) and just fix bugs. No new features, just bugs. Do another Snow Leopard release, or three.

x0x0 11y ago
I have a cron script that hard kills finder hourly because it eats a gig of ram and gets slower and slower until there is typing lag in it My partner's itunes refuses to reliably see her iphone. TimeMachine shits the bed on the regular. SMB appears to be the future but TimeMachine still requires brittle afp. On a 15-in late 2013 laptop with 10.10.current, about once out of every 20 times I open the lid the laptop doesn't wake up. Even when it does wake up there is a black screen for a noticeable amount of time. This never used to happen on 10.9. Apps regularly lose the ability to create audio (spotify, chrome, vlc) if you let them run too long. The solution is to sudo killall audiod. etc etc etc
- astrange 11y ago
  http://bugreport.apple.com/ http://bugreport.apple.com/
PhantomGremlin 11y ago
I don't know Tim Cook, but I don't think anything will get better under his watch. Certainly, people grow, but his background has been as a "make the trains run on time" kind of guy. So that's probably what he most cares about. Here are some of his previous jobs[1]: - 12 years in IBM's personal computer business, ultimately serving as the director of North American fulfillment - vice president for corporate materials at Compaq - closed factories and warehouses, replacing them with contract manufacturers - advance investment in flash memory from 2005 onwards, guaranteeing stable supply A logical extension of stuff like "fulfillment", "corporate materials", and "stable supply" would be: "release new software on a regular basis". No? Still, what is the commercial alternative? Win 10? Not for me! [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tim_Cook https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tim_Cook
wwweston 11y ago
The funny thing is you can kindof tell Apple sortof heard the complaints out there, and that some of the buzz around El Capitan was that this is what it was supposed to be. From what El Capitan is... it seems reasonable to conclude that either they simply don't have the management/talent to pull this off anymore, or they only care enough to pretend to do it rather than actually focus on it.
- kalleboo 11y ago
  Anecdotal of course, but El Cap really did solve all of the instability and weirdness I had with Yosemite. I went from rebooting once a week due to random slowdowns (typing lag), graphical glitches or freezes back to rebooting only when there was an OS update. AirDrop still doesn't work though...