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I think that Apple should take advantage of the lockdowns and focus just on fixing things. They don't need to ship anything new and they have the perfect excus
by sakisv 6y ago
I think that Apple should take advantage of the lockdowns and focus just on fixing things.
They don't need to ship anything new and they have the perfect excuse to focus on improving both their OS and their processes that allowed such flawed things to reach their users.
- m463 6y agohmmm... I wonder if that will be easier or harder. Usually fixing bugs requires access to specific repro machines, and bricking might require access to a lab with jtag style hardware. makes me wonder what the realities of telecommuting really are.
- deergomoo 6y agoI wish macOS would just drop back to major releases every 2-3 years. Sure, drop a point release in September to add compatibility with whatever new feature iOS has gained, but my Mac is the computer I do work on. I need it to always be reliable. Right now it seems the only way to do that is wait a long time before installing any update they push.
- apple4ever 6y agoI absolutely agree. The action of pushing out major updates every year has lead to a drop in quality. They never get a chance to fix last years bugs because they are working on next years features.
- thu2111 6y agoThat's not a fundamental issue though. Chrome pushes new features every six weeks. Android updates every year and doesn't suffer these kinds of problems. You absolutely can do regular updates that are high quality. You just can't do them in an environment that's deadline driven, or which gives PMs too much power over what dev teams work on.
- apple4ever 6y agoYou are comparing a browser to an entire operating system (and I believe Android does have those problems). But you do have a point: it should be product driven not feature driven.
- thu2111 6y agoBrowsers get closer to operating systems all the time, for better or worse.