Stuff went downhill since iOS 13 and macOS 11
Apple's Software Quality Crisis
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#672Here's my personal canary in the coal mine that something must be fundamentally broken in Apple's software development process: - on a recent macOS version, right click on the desktop, select 'change wallpaper' => the new settings panel opens - click on 'Custom Color' - now hold and drag around the 'color cursor' in the color selection circle for a few seconds - stop dragging and notice how the color cursor continues…
Just checked this in 15.4 Beta (24E5206s) on this 2023 M3 Max and it doesn't happen for me.
Reproduces for me. I'm on your build but there's a new beta out today fwiw
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#673In Apples position I would set up a little task force that goes through everything single bug mentioned in this thread and fixes it.
The mail got broken. Somewhere in 18 iOS release. I am also getting weird touch issues. Almost impossible to reproduce and I have no time for 20 Genius Bar appointments to prove it. I will buy another iPhone in 5 years again, maybe the one I have is the unlucky one.
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#674Freeform also works incredibly bad on my iPad (sluggish, unstable, crashing). It’s definitely a software issue. I never had such performance issues with Notability.
But yes. The overall decline in Apple’s software quality is evident and sad.
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#675Earlier quoted context omitted.
That's not true and your opinion is subjective. Windows 11 is a great developer platform.
How can their opinion be both “not true” and subjective? Windows 11 might be an ok developer platform though (does Cygwin still work?)
Not all developers are UNIX people, there is a world outside UNIX that also requires software development.
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#676I wish Apple would put more of their operating systems on a public git repository, make people sign CLA’s who make contributions, and vigorously defend their IP if people try using it in a manner that violates their terms of service. They should also setup a public bug tracker so people can follow issues they care about. Over time, a community/network of people inside and outside of Apple would evolve that fix issues…
Maybe they should just make it open source.
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#677Mine is that running multiple network extensions (like Tailscale, Little Snitch, a VPN) causes networking to randomly stop working. The only solution is to not use more than one network extension at a time.
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#679Earlier quoted context omitted.
Just curious, why did they decide to use Electron instead of native? After all those are Apple MacOS software.
It's not electron, but it is a WebKit view (HTML based) So is the App store on all platforms AFAICT.
It's not a web view except for some of the account-related screens.
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#680Figure I’ll add my own obscure bug that’s never fixed. Apple finally released a Dvorak keyboard for iOS. Except a lot of times it bugs out and stays in QWERTY mode just for swipe typing even when you’re in the Dvorak layout.