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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 teniutza »

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 :)

Believe it or not, some people can both push a (virtual) button and look behind the camera at the same time. We preserve stuff for posterity. My own experience tells me that my daughter has a lot more fun looking at pictures and videos from when she was a toddler and hearing the stories behind them, than when I just tell random stories without any "immediate context" (location, other people, toys).

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

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Post by classified »

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.

> It's always been a smoldering tire-fire.

That's why it's called iFumes.

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

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Post by wruza »

Idk what other errors are, for me it’s the input system that degraded with years of ios releases down to what it is now. For one, this hn comment entry field is now a minefield that jumps around if you’re not careful enough to drag the cursor beyond the input borders. Moving cursor and selecting text (both in input and in div) became so much difficult. Sometimes I also cannot get rid of selection in url bar to be able to scroll it right to see what /path is. While writing this message I missed spacebar around 10 times. My first iphone was 4 (ios 5). Idk how they did it, but I barely missed a single letter. On ios 7 keyboards changed and typing errors became a thing. I remember every single release that broke some of my basic functions: 7, 9, 10, 12, now 13.

I’m not talking about “complex” things here, it is what worked and then someone broke it step by step. Whoever is responsible for that, please get an early retirement. You did enough to me.

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

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Post by tonyedgecombe »

mercutio2 wrote: post #60
mschuster91 wrote: post #37

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> Time machine's performance has slowly gotten worse and worse, leaving me having to cancel backups just so I can go home. I'm administrating TimeMachine for my employer. It sucks so incredibly hard on a lot of points: 1) it requires the aged AFP protocol instead of Samba 2) No user-/machine-defineable quota, only one across the whole server 3) Extremely poor behavior in higher-than-10ms-latency scenarios 4) no way o…

Time Machine (and macOS in general) isn’t really intended for large office setups, it’s a personal backup system. Time machine hasn’t required AFP for years. SMB is in fact the preferred protocol. The SMB server does require a few extensions not all servers have adopted, so perhaps that’s what you’re referring to? https://developer.apple.com/library/archive/releasenotes/Net...

I've found it works really well as a personal backup, it's one of the things that keeps me on Macos. I can't rely on Windows backup in the same way, I have to use 3rd party software.

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

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Post by turbo_fart_box »

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…

You can fix your time machine problem by changing its priority.

http://osxdaily.com/2016/04/17/speed-up-time-machine-by-remo...

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

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Post by georgespencer »

pertymcpert wrote: post #218
georgespencer wrote: post #133

Earlier quoted context omitted.

In the last 11 days we have had two public releases of iOS. That’s MORE than one per week.

That's due to necessity, not due to choice.

My entire point is: what determines that it's necessity?

None of the updates included fixes to critical bugs or security flaws AFAIK; they were incremental improvements in stability.

Who is determining that patch 1 needs to go out rather than being rolled into patch 2? On what basis?

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

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Post by jki275 »

saagarjha wrote: post #222
jki275 wrote: post #198

Earlier quoted context omitted.

wut? Apple releases BSD code, not GPL. They've never played Stallman's game.

Apple still ships a number of components licensed under the GPL.

Maybe where they haven't replaced them yet. It was a few years ago they pretty much ripped all the GPL out of OSX and replaced it with either their own or a BSD implementation.

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

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Post by crazygringo »

I'm genuinely curious, does anyone here know if there's an underlying framework issue behind so many iOS bugs?

Because in my experience so many bugs seem to have something to do with some kind of underlying data or sync model (not even remote sync, just on the device itself).

E.g. half the time I delete a voice memo, it re-appears 10 seconds later. Or maybe a quarter of the time I send an e-mail from the "Share" button in an app, it shows up as an unsent draft when I switch to my Mail app (despite the fact the e-mail was actually sent). Or sidebar shortcuts to folders I create in the Files app gradually and randomly disappear over the course of days/weeks.

It's like there's some funky async stuff going on behind the scenes, where either a common library has flaws or race conditions that seem to pop up everywhere, or it's so hard to use the library correctly that even the internal teams which program the apps are making mistakes with it.

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Post by skuthus »

tenebrisalietum wrote: post #192
skuthus wrote: post #75

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Nintendo has (usually) made good on their mistakes - I don't know of any other company who does direct exchanges and gives checks back for broken hardware like Nintendo. The Joy-Con drift is embarrassing

What do you think of the Xbox 360 "E 74" issue and how Microsoft handled it?

I am not familiar

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

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Post by mitchitized »

I remember the GOOD OLD DAYS(TM) where I had to pay to upgrade Mac OSX, iOS, and paid monthly for MobileMe. You know what? That just worked.

Now it is all free and 99% Jankytown. Apple, take my damned money and give me my productivity and happiness back!

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