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Honestly I think it's all about priorities and budgets. Apparently even most rich company don't want to spend money to fix bugs. There's nothing that would prev

Honestly I think it's all about priorities and budgets. Apparently even most rich company don't want to spend money to fix bugs. There's nothing that would prevent Apple to hire thousand developers who will just spend their time fixing old bugs and clearing bugzilla. You don't even need much skill for that, only determination and particular kind of character to enjoy this activity and there are people out there who like it. You can provide full support and backporting fixes for 3 years, for example, so people might choose level of stability by delaying upgrades and without fear of being left behind.

bluedino 4y ago
> There's nothing that would prevent Apple to hire thousand developers who will just spend their time fixing old bugs 1. Find a thousand people who are capable of doing this job 2. Find a thousand people who want to do this job 3. Spend $300,000/year total keeping each of them employed ($3 billion)
- dmitriid 4y ago
  Or simply: - Stop mandated yearly releases - Stop mandated "release must have new features or else" - Stop superfluous changes that take away time and focus. Examples: all the recent redesigns (attempt to butcher Safari, and System Preferences being the biggest ones) Boom. You have enough people to focus on improving things instead of always scrambling to meet deadlines with random changes.