Over at Apple Insider, there’s a defense of developers and Apple. I hear the complaints by developers, and Apple are certainly in the wrong here. Still, I’m fed up with most tech people not being fed up with this whole industry.
As I said on AI:
[at Apple’s perpetual release BS] Maybe not push products out the door until they are ready, maybe ...maybe???
Why are we supposed to be all forgiving when “Apple stumble all the time with OS upgrades”? [comment defending Apple]
Covid-19 aside (because this computer industry ******** happens constantly, every year, with or without pandemics):
The degree of special pleading that is constantly used to defend this industry’s perpetual ******** is grotesque. It’s even more maddening being one of a tiny minority of tech people willing to acknowledge it and call it out...
...and not be eager to lick the corporate boot, defending every company & developer, as users are tossed incomplete products (and, no, don’t give me the BS special pleading excuse “users should know not to be early adopters”), being thrown into usability chaos with broken and incomplete features, device slowdowns, app incompatibilities (no, end users shouldn’t have to “know not to accept the update until later”, when it’s literally pushed at them daily by Apple)...
... all because Apple are focused only on pushing new devices onto market, at rigidly set dates, to feed the dogdamned stock market pundits their fresh meat...
... and when developers are behind on updating for new OS releases & platform changes that have been telegraphed for years - looking at you, 32-bit holdovers (few have excuses, most don’t).
Everyone is in the wrong here, AFAIC:
• Apple, for their focus on Wall Street, perpetually ****** release cycles, unwillingness to do proper QA, bugs, & generally incomplete development at release day.
• Developers, for acting like they were taken by surprise when long-announced changes were finalized, well after betas were made available. [yes, I see your arguments that THIS TIME is different]
• Fanatics, for defending the behavior of one or both of them, and pulling out their “us vs them” tribalism ******** responses to legitimate criticism of Apple and/or developers [and of badly designed and planned tech].
No industry is as bad as those based on computer tech and its perpetual abuse of (and scapegoating of) their own customers and endless logical fallacy excuses.
Will Apple ever change?
All the lawsuits and anticompetitive claims are by other companies doing all the same BS. Yeah, this mess needs regulation, but you know it’ll never be the right kind so long as the people who are part of the game keep writing the rules.
