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Apple parrots their OS update metrics as a leading indicator of customer engagement / satisfaction with the platform & how sympathetic they are to the difficult
by georgespencer 7y ago
Apple parrots their OS update metrics as a leading indicator of customer engagement / satisfaction with the platform & how sympathetic they are to the difficulty for developers of putting out software for new hardware every year. I'm interested to know the rationale for them putting out weekly releases vs. fortnightly or monthly. It seems like they could burn a lot of goodwill with casual users.
- saagarjha 7y ago> I'm interested to know the rationale for them putting out weekly releases vs. fortnightly or monthly. Apple doesn't push out weekly releases to the public. Are you suggesting that they should?
- bangonkeyboard 7y agoiOS 13 was released exactly 9 weeks ago. There have been 8 public releases so far (13.0, 13.1, 13.1.1, 13.1.2, 13.1.3, 13.2, 13.2.2, and 13.2.3), not counting the 13.2.1 update that stopped 13.2 from bricking HomePods.
- georgespencer 7y agoIn the last 11 days we have had two public releases of iOS. That’s MORE than one per week.
- pertymcpert 7y agoThat's due to necessity, not due to choice.
- georgespencer 7y agoMy entire point is: what determines that it's necessity? None of the updates included fixes to critical bugs or security flaws AFAIK; they were incremental improvements in stability. Who is determining that patch 1 needs to go out rather than being rolled into patch 2? On what basis?
- pertymcpert 7y agoI think they were critical fixes.