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Apple iOS 8.0.1 Issues Linked to Maps Debacle, Same Manager Oversaw Both Projects
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If I was a MR editor, I would resign with embarassment from the assosciation with them.
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If this is indeed true, regardless of the Maps debacle, this person should be fired. Normally I don't jump to this conclusion, but that fact that many updated, and lost ALL cell capability period without any proper fix in place other than to restore from iTunes, was ridiculous. Not even an EMERGENCY call could be placed......that in my mind was the worst part of it all. Sorry, but you ******** up big time, and need should expect the boot for this one.
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Bloomberg already posted this first, as linked in the article, and that gets much more serious and widespread coverage anyway. It seems that not picking it up would almost be worse as it's being reported by much more mainstream sources and in the news already.
I agree that it's not right to publicly pin this on one employee. But what also bothers me, if true, is that software testing isn't done on the latest iPhones. Giving a software engineer access to pre-release hardware in house, in a controlled environment, is different from letting them test in the wild (in a bar, say). I'm skeptical that Apple actually does what the article says.
He didn't code anything. He works on the testing team. But for MR to write this post and insinuate it is personally his fault is a bit much.
As a IT quality consultant, I can tell you that many moving parts and roles are in play. Most people don't realize that the powers that be have hard dates to meet and not every feature can not be 100% tested over and over again. I don't know the exact details here but I bet production bugs do not follow the same scrutiny of testing all features during normal development testing phases.
I really feel sorry for this guy. Its not like he did the quality testing himself. He has folks he depends on and they probably gave him the green light on 8.0.1.
Yes, regardless of whether this story was posted on MacRumors it would have received wide-ranging attention. I have removed the employee's name from our post.
I agree as far as identifying the individual or implying something about him/her. As far as posting a story about it on an Apple news site when it already broke in the mainstream news, well, it seems like it would be odd not to post something about it as that would be essentially excluding already widely circulated and publicized news.
If nothing else
I don't know about blaming this guy, but if nothing else, it does suggest that there's not really someone at the top anymore who cares enough to make their voice heard above the politics of interdepartmental squabbles. Total noob outsider perspective here, but it always seemed that Jobs cared so much about the execution of the product on a personal level, that you could feel someone at the top really co-ordinating all the different elements it takes to pull off something as polished and well-thought-through as, well, most everything they made.
This isn't to say they can't still make cool stuff (I dig the watch), but going from a benevolent perfectionist dictator to, you know, a normal CEO is probably tough.
I don't know about blaming this guy, but if nothing else, it does suggest that there's not really someone at the top anymore who cares enough to make their voice heard above the politics of interdepartmental squabbles. Total noob outsider perspective here, but it always seemed that Jobs cared so much about the execution of the product on a personal level, that you could feel someone at the top really co-ordinating all the different elements it takes to pull off something as polished and well-thought-through as, well, most everything they made.
This isn't to say they can't still make cool stuff (I dig the watch), but going from a benevolent perfectionist dictator to, you know, a normal CEO is probably tough.
Seems like a larger and more mainstream news source did that actually: Bloomberg.
But it was only a part of their article. The entire MR summary seems to be an attack on this one guy while ignoring the rest of the article.
To me the biggest news is the fact that Apple doesn't let the test team have access to the phones before release. That is just mind boggling.
Steve Jobs was also fired from Apple, for (in the board's opinion) ***** up the company.
Seems like people maybe shouldn't be so quick to light the "this guy should be fired" torches.
Seems like it's only part of the article here as well with information about other things like turf wars and access to phones and all that.
Hopefully. What a joke. Why aren't the engineers getting the tools required to do their jobs. That reason alone should be enough to fire this manager.
Does the employee deserve to lose his job if this is true? Perhaps.
Should his name be plastered all over the internet? Absolutely not. Shameful.
Should his name be plastered all over the internet? Absolutely not. Shameful.
The manager didn't provide the tools necessary for the engineers to do proper testing.
