Apple Reveals More iOS 17 Features Not Available Until Later This Year

[Edgecrusherr]

Not a single feature is delayed. They have internal rollout schedules and they meet their targets. A delay would be if they announced a date for a feature and they didn’t meet it, and that isn’t what is happening here.

"Delay" because I don't honestly think they would rather push major features weeks or months after major OS release, so they ultimately have to announce that these features will come later. It's not a delay in the sense of the public announcement, but I'm pretty certain that it's a delay internally, and generally not ideal for development teams that are straining themselves to meet these ridiculous yearly update cycles. The real problem is that they rush these yearly OS updates out, and can't include all the features day one. The even larger problem, particularly for me, is that these OS releases have bugs in them that never get resolved, and the answer is typically "it'll be resolved when you upgrade to the next version" which has new bugs that will never get resolved until they release after that, and so on.

I'm sitting here on a brand new Mac studio, that I upgraded from a 2010 Mac Pro, because I was tired of dealing with lots of system bugs and stability, only to find myself dealing with lots of bugs and stability issues. Where is my old G5 running very stable and mature 10.4 and 10.5 systems, and my 2006 iMac running a very mature 10.6, are much more stable and liable overall.

Apple's hardware is currently in a really great place (for the most part), but their software side of things has been very lacking for years, and the only correlation I see is the feverish pace for yearly major upgrades—likely forced upon them for marketing purposes, not because it's what's best for their users.

 

[midkay]

no, i actually said this previously, in the post you quote replied to so… already addressed

You didn't enumerate a single half-baked feature in your original post, and did in fact say "it’s just a lot to hold back". My point is that holding back 5-10% of features for a month or two really isn't a lot. Feel free to elaborate, but I'm guessing you won't.

 

[tennisproha]

You didn't enumerate a single half-baked feature in your original post, and did in fact say "it’s just a lot to hold back". My point is that holding back 5-10% of features for a month or two really isn't a lot. Feel free to elaborate, but I'm guessing you won't.

you know what they are, i’m not interested in engaging in a back and forth with a rando who wants to win an argument.

but since you asked, icloud for starters is in perpetual beta. web ui still terrible, the whole hide my email setup is a joke, etc. so it doesn’t really matter that it’s held back if it’s still half-baked when released, like so many other feature are as well.

 

[midkay]

you know what they are, i’m not interested in engaging in a back and forth with a rando who wants to win an argument.

but since you asked, icloud for starters is in perpetual beta. web ui still terrible, the whole hide my email setup is a joke, etc. so it doesn’t really matter that it’s held back if it’s still half-baked when released, like so many other feature are as well.

I see, iCloud has been out for 12 years but you still consider it half-baked. I guess by that kind of logic, all cars on the planet are still half-baked since they can't drive themselves yet, all computers are half-baked because they can't read your mind, and on and on.

Thanks for replying anyways, at now I understand your thought process.

 

[Edgecrusherr]

you know what they are, i’m not interested in engaging in a back and forth with a rando who wants to win an argument.

but since you asked, icloud for starters is in perpetual beta. web ui still terrible, the whole hide my email setup is a joke, etc. so it doesn’t really matter that it’s held back if it’s still half-baked when released, like so many other feature are as well.

"it doesn’t really matter that it’s held back if it’s still half-baked when released"

That is the last year+ years of Apple's software releases summed up perfectly.