Steven Sinofsky has a good Twitter thread about this [1]. He's one of the few people actually qualified to talk about managing platforms and operating systems at Apple's scale.
How Apple Plans to Root Out Bugs, Revamp iPhone Software
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#12This is sorely needed. Every iOS update has introduced bugs and UX gremlins that have been dragging Apple's software quality through the mud.
Chief among them is Apple Music, since it is a huge part of Apple's service initiative.
- Their latest update now wastes space to tell me it isn't playing anything!
- Often times just refuses to work. No error, no graceful recover. Just silence. https://imgur.com/a/VrO1Y
- Airdrop seems to only work if I have a cable near me. When I really need it, it fails miserably and I end up using dropbox or even emailing things to myself.
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#13This rumor has been around past few months, hoping it's true. Though while us technies in the minority would rather bug fixes than new features that don't apply for us, the general public would be very upset if iOS12 changes are all under the hood, as they would say Apple has fallen behind and people will insert common statements every years like they are finally considering switching etc. So while I hope the do fix long standing small bugs, I think the average user would lose their mind if they do. I imagine it will be a mix, some new features and some fixes.
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#14>The company will continue to update its software annually, but internally engineers will have more discretion to push back features that aren't as polished to the following year. Let's hope Microsoft follows suit. I would much rather have a product that works the same way every time over one that can do 1000 things half the time. Hopefully this will also give them time to reconsider some of the more ill-conceived UX…
Microsoft? Windows 10 is rock-solid. So much so that I've "switched back" to windows about 2 years ago and don't regret it.
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#15They should start by getting rid of Swift and all their proprietary APIs. Xcode is a never ending exercise in frustration. Their storyboard UI builder is even worse. And API's are constantly being deprecated and "best development practices" constantly changing.
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#16I thought Apple cut their QA department a few, maybe 5 years ago.
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#17This rumor has been around past few months, hoping it's true. Though while us technies in the minority would rather bug fixes than new features that don't apply for us, the general public would be very upset if iOS12 changes are all under the hood, as they would say Apple has fallen behind and people will insert common statements every years like they are finally considering switching etc. So while I hope the do fix…
The Mac has had an optimization-centric release following a feature release many times (all the Snow releases, El Capitan). I don't remember mass complaints.
(By its name, High Sierra ought to be an optimization of Sierra also, but its bugginess suggests otherwise.)
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#18Steven Sinofsky has a good Twitter thread about this [1]. He's one of the few people actually qualified to talk about managing platforms and operating systems at Apple's scale. [1] https://twitter.com/stevesi/status/963142502604779520
Given what he pushed for with Windows 8, and killing WP 7 alongside XNA, I am not so sure.
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#19If they just added the ability to jump to a given date in text messages, I'd be happy. That's a long overdue simple feature.
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#20What originally made the iPhone unique and powerful was that it included a full blown web browser, in the form of the Safari app. Steve Jobs announced the iPhone as a "Phone," "iPod," and "Internet Communicator." The name "Internet Communicator" indicates how different it is from the other two apps. The Phone and iPod functionality are really a subset of the Internet Communicator. And because the future is open web t…
That would be great, but the web is still not as fast as native.
So either these PWA's are slightly different than web sites, or Apple works hard to expand OS APIs that are accessible via modern web browsers.