Well at some point, lets all just hope that somewhere within the Apple legions of management someone steps back and says, "wait, just maybe we should allocate a few more resources to fixing old bugs before we introduce the next big thing."
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Apple Working on a Fix for iOS 9.3 Web Links Crashing Issue
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Sure, but that still won't prevent various new bugs from popping up here and there.
All experiences are personal.
I don't want new features. I want reliability first. New features come second to that.
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Exactly right. 100% Agree.
As opposed to just letting Apple continue to ignore issues, which they tend to do unless enough people complain. Without the complaining Apple would continue to believe its own PR, that its stuff does not stink. We all know people can't smell their own stink, so it is our responsibility to point it out. Unlike you, we actually want Apple to get or do better.
This issue has been present since 9.2 or perhaps earlier. The fact that it's now just showing up is bad timing from app updates and developers not using the deep linking system correctly, partially due to poor documentation from Apple.
Bugs happen because of lack of time or resources, or because of lack of understanding of the problem space. All of these issues are controlled by management.
Bugs don't happen because the programmers are lazy. If they do, the management should have gotten rid of said programmers. Buggy software is a management problem, not an engineering problem. The problems we are seeing right now with Apple are because management wanted it shipped without making sure the quality was sufficient. If we don't complain about it, then it will continue to happen.
I've been experiencing this a lot on my Mac, not my mobile stuff. Everytime I click a link to open a file it just hangs and crashes. I had to restart my computer 5 times yesterday.
Shockingly I'm not experiencing this bug on any of my devices. Hope it gets resolved soon for those that are, it would frustrate me to no end.
Bookmarks has nothing to do with it. In fact, this link bug affected my phone before I even updated to 9.3 (wtf)! Of course I updated to 9.3 mistakenly thinking that would fix the problem.
An potential issue that was there for some time but just nothing triggered it to surface it. Given that it's there in versions before iOS 9.3, it's not related to the 9.3 betas or release.
Because Apple will read these comment sections and improve based on forum complaints? No. Suggestions/complaints sent to them are useful but complaining to complain is NOT useful. You're mixing aimless complaining with specific suggestions for fixes. I think you guys are slightly confused about the point of my post. The OP showed all of the complaints from the first 20 comments and close to none were constructive or useful.
As has been said here multiple times, the real issue seems to be Apple now insisting on uniform and locked-in release dates for their software updates and new software releases. Instead of shipping when it's 'ready'.
This is clearly a 'bean-counter' Tim Cook mentality at work ... hitting target dates come hell or high water.
The big mystery to me is what does Apple percieve as the advantage of making these arbitrary deadlines? If anything, these enforced release dates are causing more bugs, causing more ill-will among customers, causing more bad publicity. What part of this is good for business? Unless I'm mistaken, NO ONE would be screaming at Apple if they said iOS 9.3 would be released 'sometime next month' at the latest event (except for a few impatient geeks on a site like this).
But they release buggy software and a TON of people are bitching now.
This is clearly a 'bean-counter' Tim Cook mentality at work ... hitting target dates come hell or high water.
The big mystery to me is what does Apple percieve as the advantage of making these arbitrary deadlines? If anything, these enforced release dates are causing more bugs, causing more ill-will among customers, causing more bad publicity. What part of this is good for business? Unless I'm mistaken, NO ONE would be screaming at Apple if they said iOS 9.3 would be released 'sometime next month' at the latest event (except for a few impatient geeks on a site like this).
But they release buggy software and a TON of people are bitching now.
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I'm just saying it's what my phone shipped with and I haven't had any problems with it.
Do you realize not everyone is like you ?
I really want new features on iOS and I really really like night shift.
It has been for years and years and years while doing better and better than pretty much anyone else out there.
The releases just came out randomly prior to Cook, right? They just often happened to somehow magically coincide with product launches and the like. And people haven't been complaining about this or that before Cook and only just now.
Fine. But RELIABILITY is a feature. The most important one of all. Other new 'features' don't mean squat if it means your phone/computer/tablet is crashing or freezing every other time you want to use it.
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Not. Today, Apple is a fashion based company. Perception is king. Does Tim Cook read every single post? Nope. But someone is looking at general reactions and i'll bet someone is data mining mac rumors. It's just the way things are done in the world after twitter and redit.