Snow Leopard was loaded with new features. OpenCL, Grand Central Dispatch, these were not 'tiny things' but major core upgrades.
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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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Snow Leopard was loaded with new features. OpenCL, Grand Central Dispatch, these were not 'tiny things' but major core upgrades.
I know they can’t just stop releasing new OSes but I would be totally fine with a Snow Leopard or Mountain Lion style release for everything next year. Call it Mac OS “Apple Park” because you’re gonna park your ass in your chair and make all this stuff run perfectly instead of going ok goofy ass trips
Reminds me of an episode of breaking bad...
You know if there is a bug flying around... you have to get it before doing anything else. It could affect purity of the final product.
A product Tim is making for the benefit of his family. Thats the sole reason for this operation, to ensure he leaves something behind for his family. Does this process, do you understand the sacrifice?
You know if there is a bug flying around... you have to get it before doing anything else. It could affect purity of the final product.
A product Tim is making for the benefit of his family. Thats the sole reason for this operation, to ensure he leaves something behind for his family. Does this process, do you understand the sacrifice?
I got a laugh out of the BB comparison and I know you're having a laugh.
But just to be accurate, Tim has said he plans to give all his money away to charity.
Hahah I’m not a programmer but I would imagine cleaning up bad code, especially other people’s bad code, doesn’t sound as fun as creating brand new code/features. Probably why bugs take so long to squash.
I've had some crazy crashes, hangs, and debilitating bugs on the latest iOS and macOS versions that are unlike anything I've ever seen from Apple before.
Most recently my iPhone froze completely and would not even register a hard reset via the power + volume button trick. I've never had that happen to me before. I had to wait around 4 minutes before the phone somehow rebooted itself.
Meanwhile ever since macOS 14 my Mac will crash DAILY and a bunch of settings reset along with the crash. This one is getting in the way of my work. Infuriating.
Most recently my iPhone froze completely and would not even register a hard reset via the power + volume button trick. I've never had that happen to me before. I had to wait around 4 minutes before the phone somehow rebooted itself.
Meanwhile ever since macOS 14 my Mac will crash DAILY and a bunch of settings reset along with the crash. This one is getting in the way of my work. Infuriating.
One week pause, such courage. There's no need for annual updates to everything.
^^^This x1000
Dear Apple,
Please spend more than just one week on this. Take a whole year if needed.
I'll belive it when I see it.....
I'm all out of faith, this is how I feel
I'm cold and I am shamed
Threw my iPhone on the floor
Illusion never changed
Into something real
I'm wide awake and I can see that macOS is torn
You're a little late
I'm already torn
I'm all out of faith, this is how I feel
I'm cold and I am shamed
Threw my iPhone on the floor
Illusion never changed
Into something real
I'm wide awake and I can see that macOS is torn
You're a little late
I'm already torn
It became an expectation. It wasn't always like this. Id much rather have something released when ready.
To be honest, for an OS that that don't sell separately.. there isn't any real need for this. The version numbers don't mean much except for more significant changes and additions.
Id rather they just call it iOS, Mac OS... and have the version in the small print.
Microsoft kind of tried to do this with Windows 10. They said it was the last 'version'... and I could tell exactly why they wanted to do this. You never see versions of windows for sale in shops and most people get it with the PC. I wish they had just said, its Windows... and it does have a version but its in the small print and meaningless to regular consumers.
Releasing an OS that just works and gets out the way, or enables your work, is what most people want.
They will just squeeze in more features. What they need to do is adopt the Android model where they can release components independently. This way when something is ready thhey can release it. Many bug fixes can be released without waiting for the entire OS package to stabilize.
Introducing: MacOS Apple Park - no new features, no distractions, no bugs - it just works. BRILLIANT!
FYI to those unaware, the next time software from any company has zero bugs will be the first time in history a software release has zero bugs.
I mean who are they competing with even? Microsoft takes like 6 years to come out with a new OS right?
They already do that - see how many features are announced at WWDC but released across the entire year. The issue is secrecy first, release major updates at once, and letting PR dictate schedules.
Honestly - everybody could stay with they'r last year OS-Versions. Smartest way would be to act like Linux. New version every few years plus support for years. That way everybody can choose what he wants.
Really? I haven’t noticed that. Funnily enough, iOS 17 was the least earful release for me personally in a while while it was horrible for others. Anyway, I heard early on it was very unstable and buggy so I don’t know where the Snow Leopard thing came from although I was hoping for the same.
Aww. I am a programmer and I love fixing bugs! There's something so satisfying about tracking down a bug (and its friends) and making the kill. Making a product more reliable feels amazing. I also like optimizing. I suppose it's like skydiving. Some people love the feeling, some people wet themselves. (I'm among the latter...)
New features? Not my thing. Luckily it's everybody else's thing.
