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Apple's Decision to Delay Some New Features and Focus on Software Quality Extends to Mac
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Security and stability are tantamount to the long term success of any operating system. Let Apple concentrate on those issues for awhile and avoid the catastrophic Windows releases of years past. I could give a damn about watch-strap colors, emoji's and screen savers. Just give me the most secure and stable operating system.
While I agree - 100% - I would also suggest that if the largest market-capped company in the world can't manage to improve quality AND features... their organizational model needs re-thinking. Though i have no direct knowledge of how Apple is organized, I can infer that they work through everything as a single large entity. Personally I would prefer to see each of the components split into totally separate groups working under an agile development process. That way we can see continuous improvement AND features in each component / sub-component separately while maintain overall quality.
You’re the one who questioned my language comprehension, apparently because you think Metal 1.5, half-assed eGPU support, and updates to Photos.app that still don’t reach parity with abandoned Aperture are something more than stagnation.
This. I was happy to hear iOS was getting a refinement release. Not as happy about the Mac rumor.
So they can't redesign the home screen layout AND fix bugs under the hood at the same time? Remind me again...are we talking about a small software company or is this a company with a couple hundred billion dollars cash in the bank?I mean, if they can't walk and chew gum at the same time, sure, fix the issues under the hood first -- many of which have been plaguing iOS for several years (basically since iOS 7) -- frame drops, inconsistent UI, etc.
Exactly! I was amused to read that redesigning icons was a sufficiently big deal to justify pushing off until next year. Wow.
I really can't think of a single thing regarding macOS that became better in terms of stability and performance since Apple started to hand out a "brand new" OS "for free" on a yearly basis.
I´d rather have a $30 Snow Leopard than a free High Sierra..
I´d rather have a $30 Snow Leopard than a free High Sierra..
In spite of issues/problems/bugs as noted above, I still find MacOS easier, faster, and more functional to use than Windows 10, notwithstanding major improvements on that side of the software "aisle". Given that each OS works on the foundation of millions of lines of code, I wonder what the ratio is between 'successful operations' and 'fails'? Perhaps 99.99999 to 1? Yet we still yearn to complain; how human. In this context, perhaps "stale" just means "stable".....or even "it just works".
Yeah, they empathized that high sierra is like a ‘snow leopard’... their own words
How many software programmers and engineers are on the apple payroll? Twenty? Can a focus of this nature slow down all other departments??? Wow. Simply, wow.
Snow Leopard server cost me $19.99 a few years ago. Had to order from Apple over the phone to get the deal though.
There was a year Apple delayed updates to Mac OS X because it was all hands on deck in the iOS department. Apple even announced it.
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Please improve Migration Assistant. Just migrated my old iMac to my new MB Pro. Ultimately a successful migration, but not as smooth as it should have been. Thankful for excellent Apple support.
Please improve Migration Assistant. Just migrated my old iMac to my new MB Pro. Ultimately a successful migration, but not as smooth as it should have been. Thankful for excellent Apple support.
Actually this is very new. Snow Leopard is the holy grail of polishes, Apple held off on all "eye candy" upgrades and went deep into the nitty gritty of the OS to rewrite Finder, add Grand Central Dispatch, and generally clean and speed up the system. Starting with Lion, Apple shifted to a yearly update schedule where they began adding features without fine tuning them, leading to a horrible bloated mess. It took several years and OS releases after that to bring things into somewhat of a useable state. Now, it seems that Apple neglects to do any fine tuning until there is a negative report in the press, or a class action lawsuit is filed against them
Make no mistake, I do like Apple products, and have been an Apple customer for quite a few years. I really appreciate Apple and what they do, I simply want them to return to the basics of "it just works," and clean up after themselves after they release new software (and hardware)
I'm happy with this. Frankly, for me I think the days of my computer OS getting new features that I will actually use are coming to a close. I'm too set in my ways. The only thing I'm really going to add is voice commands. Add that to the OS and I will end up using it. But tweaking my launcher at this point is a waste of time.
For a “maintenance release” High Sierra made a big change in rolling out APFS by default. With Meltdown and Spectre it probably does make sense to double down on stability and performance. Intel still doesn’t have good fixes (servers in particular are crashing more), and so maybe Apple decided not to push the envelope with new features this year.
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They need the 5 or 6 developers of iOS and macOS to man the cameras and microphones for the new TV shows in production.
Thinner?
Capacity to make HomePod more useful outside of AM?
