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New AirPods Max Firmware Unavailable Due to iOS 18.4 Bug, Apple Says Update 'Coming Soon'
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This is why all the Apple products need a Snow Leopard-like software release.
Please wake up someone at Apple. Seems these "little mistakes" keep happening more frequently.
Apple really has fallen off the horse. Death by a thousand paper cuts. Maybe they really are in their Vista era.
That's today's example of confirmation bias in a nutshell.
Yes, Apple has been on a bad run of late, but bugs have always existed in software since the beginning of software.
Not even Steve was immune to them and he had an Apple a day
Good point. Pretty clear that there is no one in today's Apple that will do this anymore. It's sad but I feel them morphing into Google. Took them longer, but the layers and layers of bureaucracy and butt-covering seem firmly in place.
It is ironic that for all the left leaning values this company claims to have, listening to the workers does not seem to be one of them.
It is encouraging that over the past months, I have been seeing fewer and fewer people on here blindly defending Apple. In the past, in an article like this, you will see people lecturing us about how we are not software developers so we don't understand how difficult it is to get things right, that we are ignorant for not knowing that software will always have bugs, that "it's a beta," and on and on. I guess these people have been getting fed up too or seeing how self-degrading it is to keep defending Apple on these things.
A customer base that refuses to tolerate constant errors, wrong decisions, and mediocrity will pressure Apple to improve. Blind loyalty is the kind of thing that allows Apple to remain complacent and fall behind. Those people who keep defending Apple no matter what are complicit in allowing Apple to become what it is today.
A customer base that refuses to tolerate constant errors, wrong decisions, and mediocrity will pressure Apple to improve. Blind loyalty is the kind of thing that allows Apple to remain complacent and fall behind. Those people who keep defending Apple no matter what are complicit in allowing Apple to become what it is today.
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I would have. Unfortunately, Apple did not provide me with the beta firmware.
I just hope Apple realizes this.
I'm afraid the only thing that will ever truly get their attention is a drop in iPhone sales. But by the time that flashing red alarm signal lights up, it will be too late.
When even Gruber and the MR forums turn against them, they should realize they have a very deep problem.
But I think the core problem is that they are out of touch, so kind of a catch-22. Upper management seems surrounded by yes-people who aren't telling them the truth.
They used to have professional software testers. That used to be an actual part of the process. But that's so two-thousand-and-late. When the bean counters took over at Microsoft they fired all the testers, and Tim thought that sounded like a swell idea. They took that quarter's .1 stock bump and moved on. And now we all pay the consequences forever.
Real problem here seems to be CDN or deep iOS related, so I doubt anyone on the outside could have helped them with this anyway.
This is the problem when founders move on. Happened at Microsoft, Google, Amazon, Apple, countless others.
We all hate Meta but it's an interesting counter-example that Zuck is still around, and recently made the company put back something resembling what people used to like about Facebook. One of the few remaining examples of the founder still being at an enormous company and having the reach all the way up and down the org chart to get things done.
When managers take over, they act like managers and not founders. Apparently Cook and Federighi don't get their hands dirty anymore.
The thought of an IOS 19 redesign at this point scares me.
I don't see him as the type to show any sort of emotion. At some point its just becoming a feature of theirs to see how much they can get away with. There is no way no one at a 3 trillion dollar company didn't know this was an issue, and they still rushed it out because they know themselves this isn't a feature thats worthwhile.
The limits of what they can get away with while still raking in cash.
Very embarrassing indeed.
Also, why can't they make this update available to those of us who paid the hefty price of the Lightning Port version of the AirPods Max?
Shouldn't we be able to reap the benefits as well, especially if the only difference between the two devices is the charging port?
Their ******ism is unparalleled!
Watch them screw up the upcoming Apple Card changes as well.
I hereby publish this open letter to Apple challenging them not to screw up the transition of the Apple Card to their new business partner. Tim, do you accept?
It's either an updated firmware revision for the AirPods Max or we see an updated iOS 18.4.1 by the end of this week.