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Apple's Software Quality Crisis

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Post by indemnity »

mattgreenrocks wrote: post #255
karmakaze wrote: post #208

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My indicator for if Apple is for the customer vs for Apple is how macOS 'negotiates' YPbPr instead of RGB for non-Apple branded monitors (some LG monitors also get a pass) which results in worse color quality. I believe this to be carefully engineered to be a plausible bug rather than a real one. BTW I have found a workaround using BetterDisplay and an EDID override (to more closely match what the monitor is actually…

Seconding this. Feels actively anti-user even if this is just a bunch of heuristics that end up choosing the wrong thing. Honestly, why is this not a dropdown? Related bug: macOS defaults to variable refresh rate when available instead of remembering my choice of 144hz. This is confounded by my hub (Caldigit TS3 Plus), which has trouble with variable refresh rates that result in a black screen. The cherry on top: eit…

It’s very on brand for Apple to remove an option to trigger / customise something that should “just work”.

Example: iCloud Photos syncing is complete crap on macOS. If it has synced recently it’s not going to do it again. So you sit there like an idiot waiting 10 minutes for a photo you just took on your phone e to show up. When a pull to refresh or refresh button would have fixed it.

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Post by walterbell »

yalok wrote: post #685

This has been going on for years. I used to do a lot of iOS development, and have an eye for bugs. Almost every Apple app/service has been regressing in quality. Take basic functionality - a phone app (calling). After certain audio sessions use (calling via WhatsApp) I can’t make regular calls over cellular - the UI app immediately cancels the call. Only reboot helps. Or notes - for many years/iOS versions, they live…

Current head of Apple hardware is in the line of CEO succession. If he becomes CEO at some point in the future, could he have a positive influence on software culture within Apple?

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Post by maxhille »

grishka wrote: post #542
dandellion wrote: post #342

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I know the feeling. I'm forced to use a Mac laptop for work, and it's really made me appreciate Linux.

Linux makes you use the terminal and read manuals and edit configs to accomplish the most basic tasks. At least neither Windows nor macOS need that. Linux is fine for servers, but I can't fathom using that on my actual computer.

I prefer config files a lot to settings GUIs. Two most important points that come to mind:

1. I can manage them in Git 2. GUIs change all the time. With configs you have a much higher probability that some solution you googled will still work even when it is a couple of years old.

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Post by mixmastamyk »

gardaani wrote: post #654
colonelspace wrote: post #505

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True Tone is also turned on after every OS update. This is particularly annoying when you calibrate your screen for some modicum of colour accuracy.

Bluetooth is also turned on after every OS update. I don't understand why macOS does these. They can't be bugs because they have been around for years.

Because a newb might complain that their earbuds/pencil is not working.

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Post by jamil7 »

Toutouxc wrote: post #659
jamil7 wrote: post #641

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There's always been a lot of room for them to optimise performance on macOS to a level that they do iOS, but modern Apple basically wants macOS to go away and sees it as more of an annoyance, so they don't spend any time tuning it. Then the elephant in the room is SwiftUI itself, there's a performance cliff there, wherein if you've optimised everything else, you might just hit the brick wall that's the layout engine…

> modern Apple basically wants macOS to go away and sees it as more of an annoyance, so they don't spend any time tuning it [citation needed]

What sort of citation would you be looking for here? It's generally accepted that it's not a priority for them, the discrepencies in performance and features between UIKit vs AppKit have always existed and are even more pronounced in SwiftUI. Due to how it's used they can't apply the same business model to the mac as they can iOS and therefore can't extract as much value from it, this is reflected in revenue.

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Post by alvarlagerlof »

kazinator wrote: post #417

My work Macbook sometimes drops random characters from the lock screen password input. You hit a key and a black dot does not appear; the password is consequently rejected. It's not exactly this: https://apple.stackexchange.com/questions/458099/macos-lock-... The system is not lagging at all. It's not this: https://mjtsai.com/blog/2023/08/29/mac-wont-accept-correct-l... It's a bit like this, but only for the system p…

Thanks for pointing out that I'm not crazy

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Post by rcMgD2BwE72F »

I believe emojis are pretty popular this days, yet searching for one on macOS has been broken for years

1. Press Fn key twice to open Emoji picker

2. Type to search

3. Hover an emoji

4. Press Esc to empty search for box and start a new search

5. Type

You can't type. Focus is lost somewhere, impossible to search again for an emoji without closing the panel and open it again. My coworkers have all installed a third-party emoji picker to work around this issue, which is absurd from Apple's standpoint.

How can Apple engineers not be aware of such issues? Did they ever inserted an emoji from macOS?

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