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Apple has a culture of ignoring bugs and just working on features. The software program org decides what is going to happen for the next release, and engineers

Apple has a culture of ignoring bugs and just working on features. The software program org decides what is going to happen for the next release, and engineers are assigned, and no resources are left to fix any existing bugs. The idea is for there to be “zero bugs” by the time a release is done, but this really means “any remaining bugs are punted to the N+1 release”. But when the N+1 release comes around, the cycle repeats and the program org picks the next thing to do, and everyone forgets about all the bugs that were punted. Repeat forever. Engineers would kill for a “zero new features, let’s just fix bugs” release, but such a release would basically mean the program org has nothing to do, and the program org is in charge, so it never happens. They’ll mutter things like “we can’t go on stage and just not announce any features”, which isn’t wrong per se, but the first step to fixing a problem is to admit you have one, and that will never happen. The whole thing is set up to produce worse software over time. It’s really really sad.

ghist 2y ago
> “we can’t go on stage and just not announce any features”, which isn’t wrong per se But they literally already did exactly that! http://ismh.s3.amazonaws.com/snow-leopard-0-new-features.jpg http://ismh.s3.amazonaws.com/snow-leopard-0-new-features.jpg
- ninkendo 2y ago
  Trust me! I know. I know so hard. But that’s still the kind of thing they say. Everyone just up and forgot about snow leopard, or maybe they just see it as a failure if they had to do a snow leopard release (at least the program org would. The engineers would be throwing a party.)
lapcat 2y ago
> They’ll mutter things like “we can’t go on stage and just not announce any features”, which isn’t wrong per se It is actually wrong. Mac OS X wasn't on an annual schedule until after Steve Jobs died. For a time, the schedule was more or less every two years, so there were some WWDCs when Jobs had little or nothing new to announce about it.

ghist 2y ago

> “we can’t go on stage and just not announce any features”, which isn’t wrong per se But they literally already did exactly that! http://ismh.s3.amazonaws.com/snow-leopard-0-new-features.jpg http://ismh.s3.amazonaws.com/snow-leopard-0-new-features.jpg

ninkendo 2y ago
Trust me! I know. I know so hard. But that’s still the kind of thing they say. Everyone just up and forgot about snow leopard, or maybe they just see it as a failure if they had to do a snow leopard release (at least the program org would. The engineers would be throwing a party.)

lapcat 2y ago

> They’ll mutter things like “we can’t go on stage and just not announce any features”, which isn’t wrong per se It is actually wrong. Mac OS X wasn't on an annual schedule until after Steve Jobs died. For a time, the schedule was more or less every two years, so there were some WWDCs when Jobs had little or nothing new to announce about it.