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In my experience, those are about as useful as telling your dog about the bug. Complaining on HN has a slight possibility someone from Apple might actually see

by nikanj 9y ago

In my experience, those are about as useful as telling your dog about the bug. Complaining on HN has a slight possibility someone from Apple might actually see the bug, and fix it.

p49k 9y ago
I'd disagree, I've filed probably 15 in the past 7 years for obscure bugs and all of them were fixed. They don't respond and the fixes take a long time, but I'm pretty sure they are listening.
- deleted 9y ago
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- lttlrck 9y ago
  I’ve used the built in Feedback app several times and received replies asking for follow up so it’s fair to say they are listening
codezero 9y ago
Not that this will instil a huge amount of confidence, but I filed a bug about a XNU kernel syscal that returned the wrong error code. They shipped a fix two years later and closer the ticket. I provided a diff fixing the bug but ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
- colejohnson66 9y ago
  To be fair, they can’t use your diff without you signing it over as it may be copyrighted
  - dlgeek 9y ago
    If it was just changing a constant (which is what GP implied), that would probably not constitute sufficient creative output to be subject to copyright.
  - codezero 9y ago
    To be more fair, they didn't ask me to.
messick 9y ago
I can assure you, radars have ∞ more chance of getting something changed verses just compaining about it on a website. File the radars.
- brazzledazzle 9y ago
  I would be more inclined to file them if I didn't have to consult an independent third party (open radar) to (hopefully) see what's going on with the radar referenced when one gets closed as a dupe. The more you make it a chore to file or track bugs the less likely I am to bother.
marcomonteiro 9y ago
No. Please file a radar. They get read and the more dups increases the likelihood it'll be addressed.