Apple’s iPhone Software Shakeup After Buggy iOS 13 Debut

Post by pier25 » Thu, Nov 21, 2019, 11:13 PM UTC

arcticbull wrote: post #85

Razengan wrote: post #30

I'm one of the most staunch Apple supporters but even I must admit that since WWDC 2019, I have spent more time fighting Apple's bugs than actually using any of the new features...or the old features that used to work flawlessly (like iTunes/Music.) Not just on the user side, but the developer end as well. Perfectly valid code which used to work up till Xcode 11.1 throws errors inside the Swift runtime or toolchain o…

Hate to break it to you but iTunes never worked flawlessly. It's always been a smoldering tire-fire.

Post by dmitrygr » Thu, Nov 21, 2019, 11:37 PM UTC

dhagz wrote: post #171

sixstringtheory wrote: post #153

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Sounds like just about every software job I’ve had over the last 7 years. It sounds like a mgmt problem to me. Either they can’t tamp down the devs who move too fast and break things, or they are driving the devs to do so.

It's a lot harder to demonstrate how the value added by improving stability. Like, what's the difference between 99.93% availability and 99.95% availability? How do you show that increasing test coverage by 5% helps users and brings value to the company? "Hey, so you know how our application is pretty much always working, but will error out once every other blue moon? It does that less now," doesn't sound as flashy a…

Post by Razengan » Thu, Nov 21, 2019, 11:43 PM UTC

HacklesRaised wrote: post #172

Razengan wrote: post #71

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> Why be a "staunch supporter" at all? Because they consistently make what I want to see. For example SwiftUI, which I had been waiting for my entire life. Call it the lesser evil, compared to my experience with other companies, if that's more acceptable for you. Here's a funny observation: I have 20+ upvotes on my previous comment criticizing Apple, but a negative score for the supportive statements on this one. So…

Perhaps broaden your horizons then, SwiftUI is a credible alternative to Flutter. Apple don't innovate, they build a better mousetrap. It has ever been thus.

Post by markdown » Thu, Nov 21, 2019, 11:48 PM UTC

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 :)

Post by Razengan » Thu, Nov 21, 2019, 11:57 PM UTC

mindajar wrote: post #170

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> Time machine's performance has slowly gotten worse and worse, leaving me having to cancel backups just so I can go home. you could try to increase the backup service‘s priority with ‚sudo sysctl debug.lowpri_throttle_enabled=0‘

That makes it suck slightly less, but TM can pretty much never be "fast" the way it works now, with the number of files we all have these days. In the best case, if a folder doesn't change, TM can hardlink to the previous backup of that folder. If even one file has changed, it has to copy the changed files and then hardlink every unchanged file in the folder, so TM chokes on any large folder where even a single file…