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Rewriting Finder is huge and risky! When they replaced mDNSResponder with discoveryd it caused problems they eventually reverted it when Vint Cerf called Tim Co
by pfranz 6y ago
Rewriting Finder is huge and risky! When they replaced mDNSResponder with discoveryd it caused problems they eventually reverted it when Vint Cerf called Tim Cook to complain.
I might be misremembering, but I through I heard a story of some meeting where "no new features" was branded close to release. Not something decided early in the dev cycle. The feature list for Snow Leopard actually looks larger than Lion to me.
I think another factor was a shift in development. Leopard was $129 and Snow Leopard was $29 and the last released on a disk. Lion was $29, Mountain Lion was $19, and Mavericks and onward were free.
- Wowfunhappy 6y ago> Rewriting Finder is huge and risky! When they replaced mDNSResponder with discoveryd it caused problems they eventually reverted it when Vint Cerf called Tim Cook to complain. But it's not the size, it's the focus, right? Rewriting Finder, without adding any additional capabilities, reduces technical debt and makes Finder faster and more stable. Adding QuickLook to Finder doesn't do any of those things, it just allows you to use QuickLook. I have another theory though, and it's not the price—Apple has plenty of money—it's the development cycle. Tiger, Leopard and Snow Leopard had several years of life before they were replaced. Every OS since Lion has been replaced within a year. > I heard a story of some meeting where "no new features" was branded close to release. Not something decided early in the dev cycle. I hadn't heard this story, but I wonder if both could be true. The roadmap was probably planned early on, but the narrative could have been chosen later. You can imagine an alternate universe where Steve Jobs walked on stage and announced "Snow Leopard comes with a brand new Finder, and it's better than ever!"