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The Apple today is very different from the Apple of 20 years ago. The brand is the same, yes, but the people are all largely different. You see this all the tim
by SamuelAdams 3y ago
The Apple today is very different from the Apple of 20 years ago. The brand is the same, yes, but the people are all largely different. You see this all the time in the video game industry, ie Blizzard, Bungie, 343 industries.
Maybe the newest group of programmers and engineers are dealing with a very complicated code base? Maybe no one fully understands everything involved until something breaks?
- benreesman 3y agoJust my N=1 anectdote, but I’ve been having almost universally great experiences until maybe 2 or 3 months ago. On the software side, I tend to tolerate more security risk (within reason) to delay updates until a consensus emerges that they’re robust, because I’m not a high value target to anyone north of “script kiddy” and run a tight ship on the easy stuff, so the EV of an abruptly unusable work machine vs. getting pwned weighs heavily relative to winding up in the crosshairs of anyone sophisticated enough to exploit a recent CVE. My online banking is properly 2-fac’d, if anyone wants to read my browser history or email and cares enough to go ti that trouble, I’ll want them that I’m not important enough for it to be worth the trouble. This would clearly change if my work went back to having demanding security requirements, but it doesn’t just now. It’s really the customer service, fulfillment, Apple Store experience (it used to feel like stepping into the least stressful room in the mall and now it’s a zoo).
- MichaelZuo 3y agoIt's likely not a single person understands the entire MacOS stack anymore, at least since Mavericks, all the pre-1985 old guard engineers having retired by then.
- Clamchop 3y agoInteresting take given that a Mac today has virtually nothing in common with a Mac of the late 1990s, let alone 1984.
- MichaelZuo 3y agoSays who?
- Kwpolska 3y agoMac OS X is a descendant of NeXTStep. It shares no code in common with classic Mac OS.
- MichaelZuo 3y agoHow is Mac OS Classic sharing lines of code, or not, even relevant to the question?
- s3p 3y agoBy definition. If they used the same code, they would be similar.
- MichaelZuo 3y agoYes but the opposite is not true, zero line of code shared does NOT necessarily imply zero or near zero similarity. Which is the case under discussion.