I apologize, everyone. Coming from a "company such as" Apple, this erks me...
The company I used to work for does this. Hardware Engineers design, Software Engineers fix...
BTW: All you people with defective screens your chances of taking it back just went way down...
Yep. Coming from the POV of someone who works for a hardware manufacturer (nothing anywhere near as exciting though), I can see where this post is coming from. It seems (very) possible that the faulty screens are still faulty, but the software patch applies a correction that compensates reasonably for the fault and makes it look ok.
The old car analogy: it's like if you buy a car that can't keep in a straight line, but the manufacturer installs a computer chip that stabilises it. The fault is still there, but you don't notice it, therefore it's "fixed".
To a manufacturer, it's uncomfortable, but from the consumer's point of view who cares, it works.
As long as people are happy it doesn't matter
(Well, it does, it's deceitful, but it might not be true - it might've just been a software fault all along)
