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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 farisjarrah »

kick wrote: post #121
novaRom wrote: post #107

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

What incentive do they have to free it? Morals don't count. There's no incentive, so they won't. That Apple freely releases anything is tied directly to Stallman resisting Jobs's snow jobs during the '90s, and later Jobs's Flash snuff.

Do you know that Apple releases a lot of open source software and even maintains the open source CUPS print server, which is heavily used in Linux and Unix systems? Furthermore, just about all of their past releases of MacOS, iOS and OS X Server are open sourced as well. There's a great incentive to open source software. It literally invites developers to make your platform better for you, for free. I'm not an Apple fanboy, but you gotta give Apple some credit here where its due.

https://opensource.apple.com/

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

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Post by D-Coder »

bluedino wrote: post #46

13 was the worst iOS release I can remember. Photos would crash from scrolling too fast. Mail wouldn't check for new messages for a whole day. Safari blank screens. Replying to messages in Mail was a 50/50 proposition. The phone would freeze for 5-10 seconds more than it ever did before. All kinds of visual artifacts like text appearing where it shouldn't, UI elements getting orphaned and just floating around, effect…

Catalina 10.15 has been my worst ever. MS Word documents now totally @#$% disappear on saving. Fortunately doing a hard shutdown usually causes them to reappear.... in the Trash, along with three dozen zero-byte recovery folders.

1/10. Would not upgrade again.

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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…

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Post by pushpop »

redwall_hp wrote: post #129
pushpop wrote: post #51

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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.

This is just the 21st century version of old illiterate people whinging about younger, literate people writing things down or keeping reference materials instead of trying to memorize everything. The human brain is way better at remembering where to find information than remembering information itself.

That’s really not what’s happening here. The only one moaning is the OP. Everyone else is just reminding the OP that their experience with the kids is still valuable even without a camera stuck in front of daddy’s face.

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Post by sswaner »

kenshi wrote: post #69
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…

Why be a "staunch supporter" at all? It's one thing to admire the work/output of a company, but once you identify as a "Company X" supporter you are just closing yourself off to being critical of "Company X". I cringe at every WWDC session when people applaud for minor features (new themes in Xcode!) and long overdue bug fixes. I am embarrassed whenever someone online talks about a problem they have with Apple hardwa…

Why be a staunch Apple supporter? Because the company and its products have a visceral and emotional impact. The company has made products that have been influential and meaningful for nearly 40 years. The brand, the leadership, and the customer experience are more favorable than that of any other company. The products are woven into the fabric of life, worn or carried nearly every waking moment, and depended on and trusted for many of life's most important experiences and relationships.

Not to mention that time in 1997 when Steve Jobs came on stage and I stood and cheered with everyone else at Moscone.

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

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Post by makecheck »

Feature flags can’t work for everything; a more complete testing methodology is required, and I hope there is more planned than we see here.

One issue with feature flags is identifying what a “feature” even is. A single flag is insufficient to enable target features in systems of interconnected frameworks. There will be an entire graph of dependencies! Testers will need to understand the series of flags that need to be enabled for a target feature to work.

And of course, there is a risk that this will make disabled features seem like bugs themselves! I am imagining Apple colleagues having to waste time reminding their testers how to enable a feature, after receiving a “bug” report about something not working.

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

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Post by apaprocki »

tolmasky wrote: post #113

In iOS 13, there is an absolutely bizarre bug when typing your passcode into the lock-screen: it will randomly delete one of the characters! You can actually watch it happen, you for example type 4 characters, and then on typing the 5th, it drops down to 3. It's absolutely infuriating, especially if you have failed-unlocking behaviors turned on where you then locked out of your phone after a minute if you fail X time…

You should feel lucky you can even type to have it delete one of your characters. On both (different) models of iPads I tried, the digit entry for screen time password was stretched out upon wake up so that there was no physical way to hit the “0” digit. You have to change the orientation for it to get back into a good state so you can press “0”. This one has survived all the updates so far! Pretty wild...

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Post by mschuster91 »

n1000 wrote: post #131
mschuster91 wrote: post #37

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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. 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…

You can use (encrypted) sparsebundle images with a given size limit as backup destination on the server.

Do you have a guide on how to do this?

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Post by mindajar »

n1000 wrote: post #135
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…

> 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 changes often. If you watch with `fs_usage -f pathname backupd`, you can see TM take dozens of minutes backing up the Mail/Messages/Calendars folders, or cache folders with ridiculous numbers of files like Slack's. Any folder with thousands or tens of thousands of files is putting TM into its worst-case performance corner.

Personally, I find TM bordering on unusable for backups these days. Maybe I'd feel differently if I still had a desktop Mac, but with a bunch of files on a laptop that moves around and sleeps, having to tether to a USB disk for several hours to do a backup is ridiculous. And network backups are even slower and frequently self-corrupt, especially over WiFi. The glimmer of hope is that APFS replication has some really cool new features in 10.15. It's clearly still very much a work in progress, and some big parts are missing, but the stuff that's released seems to clearly point toward a future where we can do block-based copies of filesystems or even deltas between snapshots. Which is much better for performance on spinning hard disks than the eternal disk seeking and grinding that file-based backup solutions all do.

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