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Post by gurkendoktor »

repler wrote: post #185
dangus wrote: post #99

All the nightmares are nightmares until they're not nightmares. Weird launch day bugs like the I bug on iOS 11 are distant memories. Yeah, these bugs are bad, but to me articles like this really feel a lot like a broken record. Every September and October, when the major releases come out, there are bugs. And then by the time you're on 10.xx.2 or iOS xx.1.3 a month later they're just a bad memory. If you don't want b…

That cavalier attitude is fine for NEW features, but not for basic apps and foundations of an OS. iOS 13 shipped with the Mail app broken. That's almost as bad as not being able to make calls. Would a BlackBerry ever ship with a broken email app?

BlackBerry's first and only tablet (the PlayBook) actually shipped without an email app. Was it courage or a company falling apart, you decide :)

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Post by ElFitz »

zanny wrote: post #215
saagarjha wrote: post #171

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I think the issue is that culture at Apple is very much not supposed to be this, and this probably isn’t what the C-suite is intending to push. So you’re not really going against them; rather, you’re going with them but against the current status quo.

If upper management wants culture to change they will take the action necessary to change it. The last people to be powerless to inflict change on a corporation are the executives running said business.

Well, the GE story in the Business Adventures book clearly shows that, sometimes, they are utterly powerless

Re: Broken

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Post by h1d »

jdance wrote: post #243
plg wrote: post #157

Honest question: if apple software engineering has structural problems that sacrifice quality for splash, what is the reasonable alternative OS? Is it Windows 10? Is it Ubuntu? I suppose it depends on the user. I'm lucky, I'm an academic and presumably I can deal with any option.

I've been using stock Ubuntu 18 on my laptop (zenbook) for a year and have had pretty much 0 issues. I consider myself a bit lucky in that though. The driver experience is actually better then on windows, on windows I had some random crashes which I have never had since switching. I just love the feeling that its my computer again, I haven't felt that for 10 years prior. I actually like customizing the interface and…

Someone needs to end the Photoshop monopoly. It's annoying I can't switch to alternatives or think about using Linux.

Re: Broken

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Post by h1d »

justinator wrote: post #39

Running a 2015 Macbook w/High Sierra. I feel pretty alright about things. I'll check back in a year if there's any compelling reason to upgrade.

Back then, upgrading meant something for the users, like QuickLook, TimeMachine or for the first time in life I saw a new OS actually take less disk space and was released primarily as optimization of the previous release as in Snow Leopard.

Now I don't bother to watch their keynotes as they're too boring and I'm productive on High Sierra and I don't see any reason I should upgrade and cause unnecessary annoyance. How boring Apple software have become.

Is there a reason to upgrade these days? I don't need SideCar as I connect my laptop to a bigger display.

Re: Broken

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Post by h1d »

cryptozeus wrote: post #346
treelovinhippie wrote: post #331

My update experience for Catalina was like so: 1. Download 8GB on Australian internet. 2. Wait 7 hours. 2. "Sorry there was an error". 3. Download again. 4. "You need 1GB more free space". 5. Clears 1GB of space. 6. Ok installing, restarts. 7. "You ran out of disk space". Only one button: [restart]. 8. Restarts. 9. "You ran out of disk space". Only one button: [restart]. 10. Search for solution, find dozens of others…

I mean you clearly 8gb is needed, this is not apple problem.

Umm, no... The OS can detect the free space to decide whether it's a go or not and it still borked.

Re: Broken

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Post by h1d »

joshstrange wrote: post #207

I really feel for the people who HAVE to be on the latest OS. Thankfully I'm able to always operate at n-1 for ~6mo and once the dust has settled I can upgrade safely. I might speed that up a little now that I have a work and a personal MacBook but only on my personal and only to play with SwiftUI. Even then, it's probably better to just run a VM with a throwaway iCloud account. I love my mac and have no intention of…

I have already lost hope for Apple. I'm just hoping they don't make things worse and just keep the quality as is but this seems optimistic too. Maybe in 5 years, Linux gets bit better when Mac is finally crap as a whole.

Re: Broken

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Post by h1d »

sidcool wrote: post #478

I wonder if things are so broken, how do they manage to create world class hardware and software. Genuinely curious.

Burn money brute forcing. How else would "non intelligent" organization accomplish?

Re: Broken

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Post by esaruoho »

guelo wrote: post #289
snapples wrote: post #131

Things are so broken here at Apple. I joined about 4 years ago. I am awed by the fact that we manage to release any software at all, let alone functional software. The biggest problem is communication. No one fucking communicates. - No communication between orgs. Tons of bureaucratic tape to cut through just to get a hand on someone working on a different product - Barely any communication between teams. Literally ev…

I have a buddy who's an old Apple QA who tells me similar jaw dropping stories about the silos and secrecy. When I marvel how they can possibly ship all those wonderful products he says it's done through grueling brute force manual QA testing. Which also sounds insane but somehow it has mostly worked through the years. But maybe they're reaching the level of complexity where brute force manual testing is not scaling…

yet, interestingly enough, Apple are never looking for manual QA testers, just Senior Automation Engineers. Or so it seems to me, a lone brute force manual QA tester who every once in a while wonders what kind of an effect he'd have at Apple.

Re: Broken

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Post by crispinb »

djsumdog wrote: post #108
crispinb wrote: post #58

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Try using Linux on a laptop with an hdpi internal monitor, and a regular old external. It's a guaranteed way to generate a daily urge to throttle yourself. (Using Gnome in my case rather than XFCE, but it's still an unparalleled shitshow)

My work laptop is in this situation and it got to the point where I just ran the eDP display in 1080p instead. Honestly on a 15 in screen where I'm only doing code and not editing photos, there's no point in running it in UHD.

I dismissed this initially out of a felt need to max out the use of my hardware. But actually it does solve some problems. I prefer native resolution + 200% scaling when using laptop (also a 15") on its own. But given the laptop screen is further away when I'm plugged in at the desk, 1080p is more than adequate. It also means I can go back to Xorg, which obviates some Wayland bugginess.

So thanks for the idea - it truly had never occurred to me (oddly).

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