Wow it was broken for a couple hours. Get over it. Stuff happens.
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Apple News is Crashing for Some Users on iOS 12.2 and macOS 10.14.4 [Fixed]
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Yet another example of why I always wait several weeks before I update software on my Apple products.
With Eddie right up there behind him.... what a pair. Tim and Eddie....potential ATV+ program material.
The Apple News+ app is a far cry from the Texture app they bought. Texture gave access to all the back issues of your favourite magazines and I was able to subscribe to the magazines I liked and have them show up in the "My Magazines" area of the app. Apple News+ has none of this functionality. I'm currently extremely disappointed with what they've done with the Texture experience.
Seemingly, Apple has stopped testing software before its released. Maybe this is just another way to show how much Tim Cook loves us.
Hire some decent programmers.
On the surface that sounds fine but in reality you can have the best programmers and this still happens. You can test and test and test until you're blue in the face and still run into a production issue, it happens with even the best of planning.
We had something similar recently where I work. 6 straight months of testing both with future end users and the QA group and not once was a very specific bug found until it was released to all end users.
This is why "triage" teams are available after the launch of every piece of software. If a production bug is found and its a serious one they're on hand to find it and patch it immediately.
It may not even be a bug in the software, it could be on the production servers. Any programmer will tell you that different dev environments despite needing to be similar, never are and there's always something that works in dev that doesn't work in prod.
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Read my post above.
I've never in my life read a "full WSJ", so to me it would depend on the quality of the selection.
Wow yourself. I said I wasn't mad or disappointed. There is nothing to get over. "Stuff happens"? I just said I expected it.
I meant it. I have no feeling about this. This is just Apple.
A server-side technical glitch that was fixed in a couple of hours. Why on earth would anyone be mad or even upset about something SO incredibly trivial?
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Less than an hour after this post and it's fixed. And still the sun rises in the east. Imagine that.
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Right I was not mad or disappointed at all. This is just Apple.
However, when it was crashing, the users did not know what the issue was or how long it would take to fix it. Therefore I think it is unfair to cite what you know after the fact as a reason for why people should not have gotten upset.
I have a feeling quite a few people already made News+ their daily morning digest and can imagine some last minute bug fixes going on that may have caused this hiccup.
Apple News+ Developer: “Ooh. Let me make this last minute change in before everyone starts subscribing to the service.”
News App crashes for multiple users. MacRumors members complain.
“**** Go Back!”
Apple News+ Developer: “Ooh. Let me make this last minute change in before everyone starts subscribing to the service.”
News App crashes for multiple users. MacRumors members complain.
“**** Go Back!”
Neither can I. and I can't figure out how to scroll to see other issues in the past, I can do this on my iPad. This whole app does not seem well worked out. Blah.
Can you hear my hard chuckle?
Dude, you won the Internet today, and that is no small feat considering the blunders being exposed today (regardless of what you think, personally, of yesterday's "Show Time".)
What? Wait, I thought nobody cared of used this app, how is this possible, all of a sudden so much "me too not work" responses
Doesn't work "in my region" (works perfectly on Mac OS though). Useless new Apple 'software'. They haven't even launched any of the other things they announced. Lately everything is pre-announced months or (hello Airpower...) years ahead
Can I ask a question that drives me crazy? Why can't I swipe two fingers from the left (to the right) to go back to the main page in this News app? There is no way that I can find to easily return to the main news page with a gesture. You must hunt and peck that "Back" button up in the top left.
I have no interest in reading every. single. article. when swiping through news stories. I look at the "Today" view, click to read something, and then I want to return to the "Today" view. (Or any other channel or topic) When everything else in MacOS is so gesture-based with the touchpad, why is this a problem?
Sigh. First world problems. Am I doing it wrong?
I have no interest in reading every. single. article. when swiping through news stories. I look at the "Today" view, click to read something, and then I want to return to the "Today" view. (Or any other channel or topic) When everything else in MacOS is so gesture-based with the touchpad, why is this a problem?
Sigh. First world problems. Am I doing it wrong?
But not without a bunch of curators to make sure we only get SJW approved content and the Alex jones are kept out.Apple added support for RSS-based audio distribution, Podcasts, in 2005. While Apple did not invent it per se, their support and proliferation of Podcasts revolutionized modern spoken-word storytelling and episodic audio content.
If it were done today, Apple would have called itRadio+ and charged $10/month.
Just a thought I had.
