See. This is what I mean. I provide a bug, but someone doesn't recognize it as a bug, or puts it as "minor", then forgets about it for the rest of the Mac OSX updates. Lets say you are the one who is in charge of what is to be fixed or not. Then this bug will pass under the rug, and never be fixed anymore.
Lets say a patient calls from his mobile phone to his doctor. The doctor is in surgery, can't be disturbed. The patient calls multiple times because he is about to get a heart attack. He goes home, trying to find his pills. Calls again from his home phone. Doctor still not available. He is desperate and goes to the pharmacy, to buy some pills.
The doctor finishes surgery, looks up his iPhone, finds out there were 10 recent calls. The last one was from the guy's home phone. He presses "call back". The guy doesn't answer. He calls again and again, no answer. Is the patient dead? Should he call the police or emergency? Only his home number is showing. While 9 others were from his mobile phone. Doctor thinks it is an emergency because all 10 desperate calls showing from his home but he is not picking up the phone. (I forget if it is the first number is shown for all, or only the last one, but it is a bug, nevertheless).
A business owner has 100 customer support people under his command. Each has a phone number for calling his sales calls in his company. He put all 100 of them under "customer support". He gets calls all the time from his employees (but not all of them bug him daily). So today he receives 5 calls, which 5 are they? You don't know. The iPhone is not smart enough to list all of them. It will only list one.
The 99% is relative. Who decides the 99%? A thought experiment? No. People who really use it. The designer can't think up all the scenarios. But you can get an idea if it is actually used, and if it causes trouble if it is a bug.
So are you saying rebooting the machine means your wi-fi sharing will broken will never be fixed because you think it is a minor bug? the wi-fi icon is still turn on (indicating it is sharing), but it doesn't work. You have to manually go in and fix by turning it off and on again.
As for the Serif font in notes app, yes that would be nice (assuming it will display each character clearly). The reason people jot things down is because you can't memorize it. How do you copy and paste it to a windows machine or linux machine, running a program asking you to input tracking number, serial number, etc (like the UPS people?). What if the reason you are copying the number is because you need it later for something OTHER than what the iPhone can send to? What if it is a prescription or transaction ID that you need to read over the phone to someone? See? You can't foresee important times these things happen. If a hospital full of people use the iPhone (which is more likely nowadays), does it mean someone who thinks it is minor simply ignore it? It becomes important and life critical sometimes.
If someone says to you... your computer runs on batteries, and you have to change it every few weeks or month, would it drive you insane? You just want it to turn on and work, every time. What if the electricity company tells you you have to give them batteries every few months so they will provide you with juice? What if you work in a police station or emergency dispatch, and must handle emergency care or situations? Should the employee panic and run to the store to buy batteries for half an hour because his Mac doesn't have a trackpad that supports wired versions? Should all Mac owners now have to be paranoid and keep spare batteries in the desk? Or should there be a policy to check the batteries at the beginning of the day to see if it is 10% of capacity, and run to the store at the beginning of the day or end of the day? No, they won't use a MAC. It is just too stupid in those life critical situations to use something that may run out of juice and require time consuming battery changing scenarios. Unlike a macbook, which you can plug into electricity all day, you can't find a wired version for the Magic Trackpad. Just because someone says, "it ain't cool looking with wires".
