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Whats up with Apple's QA lately, update issues, the other issue with third party apps not working, I was really looking forward to try out the new safari (with

Whats up with Apple's QA lately, update issues, the other issue with third party apps not working, I was really looking forward to try out the new safari (with all the promised battery life improvements). sigh

woahAcademia 6y ago
When does "lately" start? 2010?
- qz2 6y ago
  It's a good point. Apple always had terrible QA. It just wasn't as bad as all the other vendors. The other vendors have possibly surpassed them now so it's more obvious.
- Wowfunhappy 6y ago
  Around 2014. I’m (quite intentionally) running OS X Mavericks, and it’s very solid. I suspect the problems stem from Apple combining their iOS and Mac divisions.
  - m12k 6y ago
    I read somewhere that the iOS division has a culture of secrecy from the beginning, and this now permeates the whole software org, meaning that teams are more siloed, and crucial coordination and integration doesn't happen until far too close to release.
whereistimbo 6y ago
Other major cloud vendor also had outage this year.
brown9-2 6y ago
QA doesn't really help with online services having scaling issues
- king_magic 6y ago
  Sure it does. Scaling can absolutely be tested in a robust way, it just requires a shitload of engineering resources to do. Apple absolutely has the financial means to test things properly, they just... seem to not care.
- anang 6y ago
  To expand on king_magic’s point, this isn’t a case of a small service having a sudden spike in traffic, it’s a core service used by all devices manufactured by one the worlds largest tech companies. If they don’t test for massive scale it would shocking. It’s absolutely a QA issue.
- Redoubts 6y ago
  Dream bigger.