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Two lies: the "bug" was uncovered a considerable time ago (August 2010 was when I read the first story talking about it) and was first exposed by third-parties

• jws 16y ago
  You speak of the symptoms of the bug as if they were the bug, consider this one act play: • The internet claims Apple is tracking all iPhone owners! • Steve Jobs interrupts family time to exclaim "WTF!" • SJ: "Minion! Verify this claim!" • Minion: "It is true, to the extent that we keep large, possibly unbounded, volumes of cell tower and wifi access point in the cache for the purpose of…" SNICKER-SNACK… thump. • SJ: "Engineering, fix this. Marketing, communicate this.", returns to family time. • Engineering to engineer: "Fix this." • Engineer to self: "I do not know why this happens, I will search and uncover this bug." <<<--- there, that is where the bug is uncovered. He fixes the purge code from whatever simple or broken strategy the first coder used, perhaps deleting the comment that says "// might need to prune the cache, but the OS probably does that when it gets too big" • Marketing: "What? We were busy hiding the links on the home page until you respect our new iPad2, but ok, we can crank out a press release if it saves us from the vorpal blade." DOWN CURTAIN // insert character development and pathos before first rehearsal