Comment by JimDabell

Comment by JimDabell 2 days ago

> In my experience Apple's software has been accumulating small annoying bugs for a couple years.

They’ve never not been like this. They don’t know how to write software sustainably and don’t seem interested to learn. They add features faster than they fix bugs. Early on, it was masked by less frequent releases, but switching to an annual cadence made it more obvious. They worked around the problem once by focusing Snow Leopard on bug fixing, but they are just letting the bugs accumulate again now.

hshdhdhj4444 a day ago

> They’ve never not been like this.

If you only look at their earlier 10.x.0 releases this is true.

But it was well known that you don’t upgrade to a new macOS on any non experimental system until the 10.x.1 release.

In the past (until the mid 2010s I think), if you upgraded to 10.x.1 you’d have a very smooth experience.

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jajuuka a day ago

Seems like bad software design to make release versions an extension of betas. The "we'll fix it after release" attitude works in some cases, this is not one of them. At some point OS teams need to hold back releases to ensure stable releases and not just hope everyone will get the message to not update until a few versions later.

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- pr3dr49 18 hours ago
  
  Outsourcing testing to customers feels like a pattern these days. Apple is not alone in this game.
  
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concinds a day ago

You mean when they returned to annual releases. They only switched away from those for the span of a few years around the first iPhone release.

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