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Apple’s iPhone Software Shakeup After Buggy iOS 13 Debut

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Re: Apple’s iPhone Software Shakeup After Buggy iOS 13 Debut

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Post by BurningFrog »

chooseaname wrote: post #39
hylaride wrote: post #17

There have been glaring bugs/issues lasting ages in both MacOS and iOS. For years apple mail on iOS would always show 1 unread message in "all mail" for gmail. On my iPhone 11 pro (and the 6S i had before it) the camera app will sometimes only show a black screen and a freaking reboot is needed to get it working again. I've missed out on many moments with my toddler because of that. Multi-monitor support was so good…

> I could go on. The worst part? These have all been ignored open issues that other people have submitted and for years they just sit there...open. When you hire expensive developers, they don't want to work on years old bugs. They only want to work on new features.

I'm an expensive developer. I love fixing bugs.

I also don't think my job is to be entertained, but to provide value for the company and its users.

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Post by Sharlin »

hylaride wrote: post #17

There have been glaring bugs/issues lasting ages in both MacOS and iOS. For years apple mail on iOS would always show 1 unread message in "all mail" for gmail. On my iPhone 11 pro (and the 6S i had before it) the camera app will sometimes only show a black screen and a freaking reboot is needed to get it working again. I've missed out on many moments with my toddler because of that. Multi-monitor support was so good…

After the latest 10.14.x update, my macOS mouse cursor now disappears every single time I cmd-tab to another application. Before the update it only did that sporadically. I'm not the only one, eithe: the internet is full of complaints and weird workarounds to the problem. It's honestly a ridiculous bug.

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Post by BurningFrog »

saagarjha wrote: post #9

> The new approach calls for Apple's development teams to ensure that test versions, known as “daily builds,” of future software updates disable unfinished or buggy features by default. Testers will then have the option to selectively enable those features, via a new internal process and settings menu dubbed Flags, allowing them to isolate the impact of each individual addition on the system. Uh, I'm not very confide…

I find it pretty shocking they're not already doing this.

It's been a standard practice in my world for at least a decade.

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Post by hylaride »

Simon_says wrote: post #70
hylaride wrote: post #17

There have been glaring bugs/issues lasting ages in both MacOS and iOS. For years apple mail on iOS would always show 1 unread message in "all mail" for gmail. On my iPhone 11 pro (and the 6S i had before it) the camera app will sometimes only show a black screen and a freaking reboot is needed to get it working again. I've missed out on many moments with my toddler because of that. Multi-monitor support was so good…

> I've missed out on many moments with my toddler because of that. You were still there. You missed out because you reached for a camera.

There are moments where you keep the camera away and there are moments that you WANT on camera.

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Post by miles »

TheRealWatson wrote: post #33
hylaride wrote: post #17

There have been glaring bugs/issues lasting ages in both MacOS and iOS. For years apple mail on iOS would always show 1 unread message in "all mail" for gmail. On my iPhone 11 pro (and the 6S i had before it) the camera app will sometimes only show a black screen and a freaking reboot is needed to get it working again. I've missed out on many moments with my toddler because of that. Multi-monitor support was so good…

> I've missed out on many moments with my toddler because of that You just missed taking pictures. You were still there to live them :)

Reminded me of Miyazaki Hayao's request to visitors of his museum[0]:

「カメラを向けるのではなく、この空間をご自分の目で見て、体で感じてください。そして、思い出は心の中に大切にしまって持ち帰って欲しい、これが私達の願いです。」

Which translates fairly literally to:

"Rather than aiming your camera, please see this space with your own eyes and feel it with your body. We hope that you carefully store these memories in your heart and take them home with you."

[0] http://www.ghibli-museum.jp/info/

Re: Apple’s iPhone Software Shakeup After Buggy iOS 13 Debut

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Post by jrgaston »

gurumeditations wrote: post #91

Safari, at least on the iPad, is so incredibly buggy in iOS 13 that it’s practically unusable. Not to mention the ridiculous system where it opens new Safari windows, not tabs, and then doesn’t give me any option to close them. And when Safari bugs out, and I have to force close it, it loses every single one of the tabs I have open, and it didn’t do any of this garbage before iOS 13.

Arghh, those floating Safari windows. How do you get rid of them?

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Post by novaRom »

zionic wrote: post #88
jamil7 wrote: post #54

Earlier quoted context omitted.

About 10 minutes ago I had XCode 11.2 crash from a line of swift code I wrote without compiling. I had to go into vim and delete the line because XCode would crash each time I tried to reopen. I hope it all gets smoothed out since there are some nice new tools worth looking into. But the constant bugs and crashes make it hard for me to get excited.

FYI, Xcode 11.2.1 is out and fixes several issues.

and introduces some new.

Seriously, why don't they open source it? There are so many so bad security issues in Apple software last years.

Re: Apple’s iPhone Software Shakeup After Buggy iOS 13 Debut

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Post by xchaotic »

Razengan wrote: post #65
pushpop wrote: post #51

Earlier quoted context omitted.

So true. My parents didn’t miss out not having a camera phone and neither did my grandparents. It’s amazing how dependant we’ve become on capturing moments. Sometimes even to the detriment of actually experiencing them.

Might be related to the "Terror Management" theory. :) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21298470 We probably feel the need to preserve/hoard everything in a subconscious desire for immortality.

It’s interesting that individuals have this desire- the goal should be survival of the species not of an individual

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Post by madeofpalk »

gok wrote: post #84

It's interesting to me how widely followed the "Snow Leopard" myth is. It was a total disaster of a release. There were egregious issues in libdispatch which led to the entire API being re-written at least once. There were also random hangs due to major kernel scheduler changes for the first several point releases. Snow Leopard also introduced OpenCL, which has basically never worked. The Finder re-write added no fea…

Or what about that Snow Leopard bug where your main user account got deleted whenever you used the Guest account https://www.computerworld.com/article/2528936/snow-leopard-b...
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