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Apple Briefly Paused Work on New Features for iOS 18 and macOS 15 to Clean Up Bugs
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"Briefly"? It should've been entirely. Apple should've entirely paused work on new features, for the duration of one entire iOS version, to clean up bugs.
But we'll never get that from Tim Cook because he is only concerned about making $$$. Cook will gladly sell software as buggy as he can get away with while still making massive profits.
But we'll never get that from Tim Cook because he is only concerned about making $$$. Cook will gladly sell software as buggy as he can get away with while still making massive profits.
I blame agile/scrum for a lot of problems in the modern world. Before I retired I was placed into various scrum teams and I hated it. It is certainly effective for slapping stuff out the door, but is the enemy of doing truly great or inspirational work. My best ouput over many years happened after long periods of quiet reflection and very carefully thinking about the right way of designing systems. That all went to pot when the agile philosophy of just getting something banged out and worrying about fixing it later. That way lies plenty of dead end strategies and wholesale revisions sooner or later. Glad I’m out of it now. Meanwhile, teams of developers are using my old carefully planned code libraries on a daily basis, all done without a stand up or sprint in sight.
Additionally, the coming updates could be delayed until IOS 18 or later with only positive upside for me. None of them are essential. Maybe nice to have but not essential. What is essential, ”Just Works”. Apple pay attention.
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Craig seems like a bright guy and he’s Apple’s best executive active at working a room, but it’s indisputable that the software experience has indeed been garbage on his watch. Something has to give. I don’t know if it’s the yearly cycle or what, but it really does feel a bit like we haven’t had a decent iOS release in over 10 years which is profoundly ridiculous when you think about it.
Apple’s executive leadership is much too rotten for this type of wholistic product-oriented leadership at this point.
But let’s crap out another mediocre service offering no one asked for!
Always good to see a Snow Leopard reference. Best damn software Apple ever shipped.
Right on. I don’t see how these things don’t aren’t prioritized considering how comparatively slow (historically, to Android) Apple has been to implement new features.
(Not to say they should throw in more features. I like a slow rollout if I can expect refinement.)
It's insane to me that they apparently don't have a dedicated bug squashing team
Exactly. Apple should have kept Scott Forstall. But Tim Cook was, and still is, too mediocre to realize the extremely high value of someone like Forstall. Cook is an MBA, and MBAs are typically mediocre and far more concerned about making money above all else.
Had Apple kept Forstall, in addition to the increased comparative stability that iOS had under his watch, we would've still had the most beautiful skeuomorphic design in the entire tech industry on our iPhones, iPads, and Macs. But instead, we're stuck with this ugly Microsoft-pioneered flat design.
So the team fixing bugs will wait for the new stuff to be delivered so they can fix it?
I mean it wouldn’t make much sense, new dev and fixing goes hands by hands so it make sense to have one team only or you might end up with a mess.
Do *NOT* get me started with Scrum/ "agile"/ "Dev-ops". Great methodology for very limited circumstances. Do not use Scrum for something as complex as a modern operating system.
Is Apple using Scrum to develop MacOS? Please say no :O
I’m glad someone else doesn’t agree with agile. It was cool for indie software back in the day that was shareware and stuff but now full on OS’s and mainstream software are riddled with bugs. They can only have their customers be their beta testers for so long.. not to mention that now cyber attacks are a huge threat compared to back in the day. It’s getting really risky. I prefer waterfall. I’m getting tired of screaming “it just doesn’t work!” about all my Apple products everyday. Apple seriously needs to just stop, slowdown and get everything running 100% again so we can actually say “it just works!”. I’m getting worried about cyber threats which are more important than a moving desktop wallpaper. Basic stuff should work, like the settings app. I’ve had 3 different Apple devices malfunction today, it really pisses me off!
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The IT tech in me wishes that Apple would put a 3-6 month pause on new features to clean up bugs, but I'll take what we can get.
Come'on Apple, sort it out - You are losing sales and customers.
Customers are not Beta testers.
Once a customer goes to the other side, they are not coming back.
For me:
I'm glad Apple is doing something about their buggy Operating systems now at last in this modern era.
The latest hardware is awesome, the OS is inconsistent and flaky as hell.
The last few years I've been waiting for versions x.3.1 at least, meaning waiting into the following year each time. That strategy has worked for me, for anytime I went up an OS with Apple. Be it IOS, MAcOS etc.
Strategy not working now.
I wanted to buy the missus a Apple Watch 9 for Xmas. The battery drain bug etc. sounds awful.
Also will need to upgrade to the latest IOS to update the latest WatchOS etc.
I'm not doing that before Xmas! We want stable working devices for November, December, over the Xmas and new years period etc.
Apple Watch for a Xmas present, that runs out of battery by xmas lunch?!
Customers are not Beta testers.
Once a customer goes to the other side, they are not coming back.
For me:
I'm glad Apple is doing something about their buggy Operating systems now at last in this modern era.
The latest hardware is awesome, the OS is inconsistent and flaky as hell.
The last few years I've been waiting for versions x.3.1 at least, meaning waiting into the following year each time. That strategy has worked for me, for anytime I went up an OS with Apple. Be it IOS, MAcOS etc.
Strategy not working now.
I wanted to buy the missus a Apple Watch 9 for Xmas. The battery drain bug etc. sounds awful.
Also will need to upgrade to the latest IOS to update the latest WatchOS etc.
I'm not doing that before Xmas! We want stable working devices for November, December, over the Xmas and new years period etc.
Apple Watch for a Xmas present, that runs out of battery by xmas lunch?!
With that millions that those guys get every year the work they do at quality control is so bad. Hardware is awesome but the software is pure pile of joy.
The "loud keyboard" is a bug since 8 years on iOS.
Tim Cook only wants money and has zero personality and I doubt he is really interested in the stuff that apple makes.
Stuff gets more and more expensive while people have less money.
Do you think I am buying an Apple 27" display for 2000$ to have the same display I already have in my iMac 27"? (yeah I know 500 nits now instead of 400)
I am currently working at two 32" inch Samsung 4K displays for 340$ each.
I always think, apple products are 20% better but 500% more expensive.
The "loud keyboard" is a bug since 8 years on iOS.
Tim Cook only wants money and has zero personality and I doubt he is really interested in the stuff that apple makes.
Stuff gets more and more expensive while people have less money.
Do you think I am buying an Apple 27" display for 2000$ to have the same display I already have in my iMac 27"? (yeah I know 500 nits now instead of 400)
I am currently working at two 32" inch Samsung 4K displays for 340$ each.
I always think, apple products are 20% better but 500% more expensive.
Yep, 1 week, 3 day of which our meetings followed by 1 day of trying to rewrite code and the last day trying to explain to the PM why you couldn’t fix it.