"a few embarrassing mishaps"? I guess if you're enough of an Apple fan, you can believe that!
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Apple's Decision to Delay Some New Features and Focus on Software Quality Extends to Mac
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Redirection is only acceptable when it’s used to bash Apple. Totally cool to bring up how an Android or Windows product has “x” feature or only costs “x” amount compared to Apple products. But no, how dare anyone try to say that Apple does something better than another company!
The problem is that Apple current strategy is to "Just Work" for teenagers, which means superficial social and related functionality. The rest of us needs "It just works!" for real work. Now of course we can use some of those teenager focused functions, but a lot of us need more.
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No, I'll agree it can go both ways. The point was more toward why use it at all. Keep to the topic rather than trying to shift it by bringing in competitors.
Apple doing something we don't like doesn't make it any better at all by saying "well Samsung/Windows/Google/Amazon does that too." But we do try that... and it even seems to work sometimes, as more of us can rally around bashing on those other guys.
The poster that slung in some redirection this time asked: "What has Windows done recently that's revolutionized the desktop market?" relative to the topic of this thread. In other words, since Windows hasn't done much, why should we expect Apple to do much? Is that really what we want?
My expectations toward Apple is that THEY bring us the flying car, the Star Trek transporter, the Holodeck, the food replicator and so on. If any of the players can do any of that, it seems Apple should have a great- best?- shot at it. However, if we can run to a redirection ploy when Apple seems in some lull, why can't Apple just hang with the rest for the entire foreseeable future. OR, if the rest can't innovate much new going forward, why does Apple have to even try?
Do we want that? (I think) not at all. So why play such a card in a thread like this?
With all of the money and supposedly endless resources Apple had at its disposal which we were led to believe over the years, a different truth has started to make its presence known. I have to admit, Apple’s marketing department is doing a hell of a job. If only the rest of the company could match that or just come close, we would be okay.
Tod bad if its true. I'm really expecting a change in the bored user interface and with this Im sure they are referring to this feature. Why they cant focus on both things at the same time Performance, Quality and UI redesign? Same thing for the Mac OS, this User interface has decades.
Apple's reported plans to delay some features planned for iOS 12 until next year will similarly extend to the Mac, although to a lesser degree, according to Mark Gurman, reporting for Bloomberg News.
Gurman's sources corroborate an earlier report from Ina Fried at Axios, which claimed that Apple's software engineering chief Craig Federighi disclosed the revised plans during a meeting with employees earlier this month.
While the shift in strategy appears to extend to macOS, it reportedly will not affect the development cycles of watchOS or tvOS.Apple's plans to focus on the quality of its current software platforms will presumably result in a greater emphasis on bug fixes, performance improvements, and the general stability of its operating systems.
The shift in strategy follows a few embarrassing mishaps for Apple in recent months, including a major security vulnerability that enabled access to the root superuser account with a blank password on macOS High Sierra version 10.13.1. Apple promptly fixed the critical bug in a security update.
Just weeks later, MacRumors was alerted to a security flaw in macOS High Sierra version 10.13.2 that allowed the App Store menu in System Preferences to be unlocked with any password. While this bug was much less serious, it was still system behavior that obviously shouldn't have been possible.
Apple had a similar shift in strategy in 2015 with the release of iOS 9, and with some other macOS updates in recent years, according to the report, so this isn't Apple's first time doubling down on the polish of its software.
The report also corroborates that Apple was planning a redesigned grid of app icons on the home screen in iOS 12, but that change is now delayed until 2019 along with expanded photo management capabilities. There's also word of a multiplayer mode for augmented reality games, but it's unclear when it'll be ready.
Gurman still expects some smaller improvements to the Photos app to roll out in 2018, while the original report by Fried mentioned enhancements to the Health app and parental controls are still planned for release this year.
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Why can't they releases fixes and patches as they become available? Why does it need to wait?
[doublepost=1517335717][/doublepost]I don't see a need to delay any features. Hire more people to get the work done. Stop being greedy.
[doublepost=1517335717][/doublepost]I don't see a need to delay any features. Hire more people to get the work done. Stop being greedy.
Haven't they just introduced an entirely new file system?
(the fact that it is buggy is not the point here)
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I want MacOS to be solid and fast. I don't care if it is stale, as long as it is really solid and as fast as it can be.
New features should be the focus for Apple professional software.
And they are. I can't believe how little I paid for Logic X for what it can do, and it gets updated all the time.
Yes, they have. Fusion disk owners everywhere rejoiced /s !
Sure, it's a welcome additional, but I wouldn't call a new file system 'exciting'. The majority of the user base wouldn't care, or even realize anything has changed.
I'm an Apple fan in a sense that I like most of their stuff even if I don't own most since not everything is useful to me, but don't get me started on things that i would improve if someone bothered to listen.
can someone please help me, i have a MBP from a year ago and sometimes when i close the lid the battery is dead when i open it up again. ive tried the normal remedies but it still sometimes happens. it started after the high sierra update
I'm thinking the same thing. I believe the problem is at least with iOS that 1.0 was sort of a hack and they were glueing things on tp ever since that's why every major iOS release feels like a beta until 3 months laters they manage to put everything in place as it should be.
IMO Apple should convert macOS into a rolling-release OS (basically what now Windows and most Linux distros do). You don't need to release a whole new OS version just to add a bunch of features like Safari tracking-prevention, a new Photos version etc. Just release a feature when it's stable and ready and release an up-to-date iso twice a year or so. iOS even converted the file system to APFS in a point update. I really don't get why each year there has to be a brand new OS version (with tons of bugs).
Yeah things like that go largely unnoticed. Apple upgraded millions of Mac and iOS devices to a new file system with virtually 0 issues. Of course no one noticed.
A company set to report billions in record revenue this week should not have to prioritize one over the other. Leverage your resources to offer stable software AND new features.
It's by no means "brand new", just updated and a few more features, the base is the same for quite some time.
I am bummed the homescreen isn’t being updated. It’s past due for a refresh