Only reason I want to install Sonoma is to disable mouse acceleration. I know there are terminal commands but I refuse to believe its the same. Every "disable mouse acceleration" tool I tried had other results so I doubt there is the same switch
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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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All while getting 50 millions $+ for Tim Cork. Sometimes I wonder if apple guys even use their own product because how can those bugs persist for years.
As for the keyboard loudness bug everyone just answers "WHO USES KEYBOARD SOUNDS ..." or "TURN IT OFF" or some other moronic answer.
I wonder why Steve Jobs thought that Tim Cook would be the best person to follow.
A stone has more interest in apple than Tim
Because Tim Cook had already been fulfilling the duties of CEO back when Steve Jobs was around. ie: Tim Cook had been doing what should have been Steve Job's responsibilities to begin with. So if you ask me, Tim Cook was the natural person to lead Apple because he had a solid background in supply chain management and was already intimately familiar with the daily operations at Apple.
Look at the state of the world today. You don't want a firebrand orator shooting his mouth off at every opportunity. You want a steady hand at the wheel. You want your trains to arrive and leave the station on time every day like clockwork. The more I look at companies like google and Facebook, the more I am grateful that there is a steady hand at Apple's helm.
To sum it up, Steve Jobs was the right person for Apple then, just as Tim Cook is the right person for Apple now.
But... they only stopped for one week. They should have stopped for 52. Or at least 26.
Wait, what? I read during the testing period that it was pretty stable for a beta.
Apple brings out new OS updates every year and is still way less buggy than scary fast Microsoft that brings out update two times year in the fall and spring update.
But even Microsoft is way more buggy than Apple with probably more software Engineers working than Apple.
From what I understand they can’t do that because the OS and code is too complex so software engineers work on small areas they know very well. Like example of car like team 1 working on engine, team 2 working on the breaks, team 3 working on the steering, team 4 working on the gas pump and team 5 working on the tires so on.
That the only thing Apple can do is hire more software engineers and train them and assign areas like your 50 new software engineers work with team 1 and your 40 new software engineers work with team 2 and your new 20 software engineers work with team 3 and your 80 new software engineers work with team 4 so on.
Stable doesn’t not equate to not buggy. It just means it doesn’t crash.
There are tons of bugs (some major features are broken) in iOS and MacOS, but there are both very stable.
Apple has gotten to the point where they are releasing new features in nearly every point update, so at that rate they are doing 7 or 8 releases a year.
macOS Snow Leopard, El Capitan, Mountain Lion & High Sierra were feature-paused macOS versions focused on:
- refinement
- stability
- security
- technical improvements
- improved performance
- greater efficiency
- the reduction of its overall memory footprint
I hope macOS 15, iOS 18 & other Apple OS does the same above.
It would be useful for Windows 12 & Android 15 to follow
With Android having the latest 2 Android versions be >80% of all 0-6yo devices would help with Android Fragmentation.
Microsoft did an excellent job with Windows Fragmentation by having >95% being Win10 & Win11.
- refinement
- stability
- security
- technical improvements
- improved performance
- greater efficiency
- the reduction of its overall memory footprint
I hope macOS 15, iOS 18 & other Apple OS does the same above.
It would be useful for Windows 12 & Android 15 to follow
With Android having the latest 2 Android versions be >80% of all 0-6yo devices would help with Android Fragmentation.
Microsoft did an excellent job with Windows Fragmentation by having >95% being Win10 & Win11.
Yeah, I haven't heard anyone recently talking about how things work inside Apple, but I have heard many interviews with people who were there previously. If things are still the same, for the most part, whoever's working on a particular aspect of the system is the one responsible for features and fixes. Basically, whichever piece of the OS they're working on, it's their baby. That may be all different, though.
There is no reason for apps that any third party developer could do to have deep hooks into the operating system. Neither Mail, Contacts, nor Safari should be that close.
I've noticed that Android lately has been updating such apps individually through the store. Apple could do the same.
If Apple fixed things regularly, annual updates would be good, but they don't tend to fix a lot of bugs until they're in the news.
Certainly, the WiFi-related code seems to lose all of the connectivity fixes until x.1.1, every year.I get this feeling that every iOS version is a complete rewrite instead of carrying legacy code over.
From what I know about Apple:
- There’s 3 product phases: Plan, Build, Ship
- Each team chooses the methodology based on necessities
- The only known team that follow something like “Scrum” are the AI / Siri team (now you known why Siri is what is)
- There’s one Apple software before and other after Scott Forstall, Scott hates “agiles” and things like CI/CD, unit tests, …
I think some Apple teams become more “automation” focus and forget the real / manual tests.
- Automated tests don’t ensure a quality product, human are most often better than automation
- There’s a correlation between the increased reliance on automated testing and the decline in quality of software
- It's still mush more effective to write the right software first than it is to build something and then change it later
I’m software engineer for 2 decades and today development becomes a nightmare with all that modern things.
- There’s 3 product phases: Plan, Build, Ship
- Each team chooses the methodology based on necessities
- The only known team that follow something like “Scrum” are the AI / Siri team (now you known why Siri is what is)
- There’s one Apple software before and other after Scott Forstall, Scott hates “agiles” and things like CI/CD, unit tests, …
I think some Apple teams become more “automation” focus and forget the real / manual tests.
- Automated tests don’t ensure a quality product, human are most often better than automation
- There’s a correlation between the increased reliance on automated testing and the decline in quality of software
- It's still mush more effective to write the right software first than it is to build something and then change it later
I’m software engineer for 2 decades and today development becomes a nightmare with all that modern things.
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Even if they are in the news they’ll throw some kind of bandaid on the problem and not fix the root cause.
For example, ScreenTime has been broken for years. Every now and then Apple will put out a release and claim to fix ScreenTime. When I check it’s still broken.
I’ve called into support about this and have been told ScreenTime has so many problems Apple doesn’t have the time to actually fix it.
But, there's time for other stuff that may not work properly.
I guess when you only have about $400 billion of annual revenue, you need to tighten your belts somewhere.