Because Apple needs a reason to hype up OS updates as if they contain major enhancements. Half of the advertised "improvements" on every iOS update are merely just app updates.
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Apple Reportedly Delays Two New iPhone Features Until iOS 27
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The major difference in Apple is the same as the major change in the community-- both are much bigger. Beyond that, both act essentially the same. Apple continues on its own path, deciding for itself what is best for the customer as they always have. The community continues to falsely believe they're in a relationship with a corporation and brand it as abusive.
You won't find a time in the archives of this site where the community conversation couldn't be summarized as "I hate Apple because they're too expensive and lacking features but I know they love me anyway." Everything is just at much larger scale now.
Combine that with the fact that the much larger scale has caused the formation of an entire industry around rumor mongering, not just here but at major media and investment firms, and a social media landscape where people try to convince the world they know what they don't just for clicks, and we get a combination of false reports and up close sausage making tours that feed the current generation's overwhelming cynicism and offends its sense of entitlement.
Yeah that’s how I read it at first. Maybe the features really are delayed by ten releases, can’t tell these days.
Yes. Exactly this. Jobs used to say that Apple didn't have the resources of the larger companies. Things have changed a lot since then. Or at least they should have.
I hope this means that aside from a visual upgrade they’re going to focus on fixing some of the crazy amount of bugs. We see when a new version comes out and that this will be one of the more stable versions of their operating systems.
That and hopefully add the missing features, they promised us.
That and hopefully add the missing features, they promised us.
The jokes write themselves. You didn't even try to change the wording up lmaoo.
Bugs are ofc part of development, but not to the level that Apple is at. That is just an excuse.
As far as communication (or lack thereof), that signals incompetence. The code base should be clean, and Engineers should be onboarded more effectively. Apple is definitely cutting corners.
I didn’t need to change the wording, you had it exactly right.
And all measurements are without error, and all corners square, and people always smile, and every day should be sunny…. Lmaooo
Communication bandwidth is always limited. Failure to recognize the reality and challenges of a complex development would signal incompetence.
It’s the contrast that amazes me. Apple achieves difficult software feats like world-beating AR tracking and pinning, multi-touch interaction that the market still hasn’t quite caught up to, two incredibly seamless ISA transitions—yet can’t swap out a calendar app within a year and a half? I suppose I should just be thankful it’s not the other way around…
I think is not a question of number of heads but more a planning issue. I would expect from a company like Apple to have better planning and scheduling of tasks to achieve the features. Here we are talking about a delay of years, which means that there is something terribly wrong there. I think they should make Craig to step down, everything started to go wrong once he was on charge of software engineering.
I wish to heck our exchange server did this.
I understand why, because it’s not as easy as all that to integrate foreign code bases.
This would be a great option to add as a toggle.
So this is the "visionary" part you're claiming about yourself on Alamy? lol
While they do make a ton of money, so your point should still stand, I just wanted to point out that they don’t actually have that much “cash on hand”. That’s the value the outstanding shares of the company are worth. You’ll notice that changes daily in response to rumors and news.
The still large pile of money they actually sit on is far less than 3 Trillion.