So what word would be good to describe your behavior in writing a long screed that accuses me of lacking empathy? Covid! Fires! Loved ones! US Politics! Oh my! Is this you giving a demonstration of empathy for me?
I have plenty of empathy if developers are actually facing pain. Piling on to attack Apple, not so much. Apple employees also have families and many of them are in California too. I’m guessing they too are affected by all of these issues.
If the original author was able to articulate the pain they are facing, I’d have empathy for them.
They didn’t in fact do so, which is why we’re trying to figure out what the negative impacts would be.
It’s absurd also to suggest that there was an iOS release with no warning. That is simply not true. We’ve been expecting it for months, and we also knew the release schedule would be different this year.
If people are being pressured by managers in some painful way, then I do feel for them, but if that pressure is occurring because managers actually have a false understanding of what is at stake, then it is more empathetic to discuss the misunderstandings about this than it is to just nod along.
It’s really not clear at all what pain anyone should be feeling.
Presumably their apps are ready to go, and all they have to do is submit them and wait.
As we’ve already discussed, almost nobody should be actually discovering bugs now, regardless of Apple’s scheduling.