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Apple's Software Quality Crisis

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Re: Apple's Software Quality Crisis

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Post by alberth »

mherrmann wrote: post #867
alberth wrote: post #863

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> Apple felt compelled to publish a video Context is important. This was a WWDC session and Apple records & publishes all WWDC sessions.

I don't really see how that makes a difference. A talk with the title "my API demystified" is an equally bad sign.

> A talk with the title “my API demystified”

But that’s not the title of the session.

The title of the session was “Background execution demystified”

Background execution is a computer science topic that many don’t understand well. Much like font antialiasing or other computer science topics that people don’t have to deal with daily.

Note: I’m not saying Apple APIs are great. I was just originally pointing out the context of your post.

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Post by beastman82 »

I have had issues involving connecting external monitors that cause my Mac laptop to freeze for _14 years_. 3 different Mac laptops, numerous external monitors.

It doesn't happen often, maybe once every one or 2 months. But it requires a full reboot.

Re: Apple's Software Quality Crisis

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Post by pcdandy »

Late last year after an OS update, notifications in macOS mysteriously stopped popping up. They were getting triggered and could be seen by opening the right sidebar, but the banners were no longer popping up in the corner anymore. I had been using them to remind me of any upcoming meetings in my employer's Google calendar, so when they stopped appearing, I suddenly found myself unintentionally missing those meetings altogether. (I found a workaround by using Slack's Google calendar integration to send me reminders there.)

Well, turned out that although the Focus -> Do Not Disturb settings had been disabled, the settings were behaving as though they were enabled anyway! It was set to only allow certain apps to show banners. Only when I changed this setting (a few months later nevertheless) did notification banners finally start working properly as before. Perhaps I ran into an extreme edge case that the Apple engineers overlooked somehow, but it does make me wonder whether they are doing anything at all to identify and cover such edge cases.

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Post by Mindwipe »

nwatson wrote: post #865
virtualmic wrote: post #830

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> The article makes some great points about how iOS software is regressing, but it still feels so much better than almost any other software I use on a daily basis. I face none of the issues on my Samsung S23 phone, which the parent commentator describes - no issues in phones calls (I make 4-5 calls daily, mix of WhatsApp & regular calls), no major issues in Google Keep (which I use 2-3 times daily, specially never o…

I use Apple-Silicon MacBook Pro and Mac Mini for software development. I hardly ever use Apple software for business/personal/productivity. Jetbrains IDE tools, Docker, Homebrew work great. I install Chrome browser and use Google services, AWS and GCP consoles, etc. via the browser. YouTube for video, Google Music app. As for all Apple software, I might use Preview or Numbers (spreadsheets) on occasion, and I'm force…

MacOS is a lot less solid than it used to be. Not just in UI terms, but the current networking stack is garbage compared to the Snow Leopard era, we've had versions of the OS ship that couldn't read FAT32 properly, frameworks are breaking all over the place, and they have locked down any attempt to fix it.

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Post by dumbfounder »

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…

The notes bug drives me nuts when I am working on a longer document.

Re: Apple's Software Quality Crisis

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Post by markus_zhang »

VirusNewbie wrote: post #536
markus_zhang wrote: post #393

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I wonder how can I join MSFT or Apple just to fix stuffs? Don't care about salary as long as it's on par with my current one.

If you got hired on as an L4, didn’t mind missing out on promotions, and were ok working with your manager it could definitely work.

Ah it's a pity that they don't hire that many in Canada, especially in Quebec.

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Post by Cupprum »

sureIy wrote: post #785
Cupprum wrote: post #681

I have a feeling that user testing just gets completely avoided. One thing which bugs me since the last redesign of the horrible apple photos app, is that they changed its order of showing picture?! After going on a trip, i like creating a album and sharing it with my family, I also put there some comments, and try to turn it into a story. I believe this is what an album is supposed to do, tell a story. Therefore ren…

Man every time I read someone complaining about the new photos app it feels like they never even tried looking for a solution. "It changed, so it's broken." 1. Open shared album 2. Tap "Sort" button in the bottom left corner 3. Select "Sort by oldest first" I don't know if they could have done it any simpler than this.

Yes i do that :) but now i also need to tell that to my family constantly. Its not like you need to change it once, you need to change it for every single album

Re: Apple's Software Quality Crisis

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Post by Mindwipe »

webdever wrote: post #343
flohofwoe wrote: post #68

Here'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…

To pile on, though can't repo on demand, sometime in January, Airplay between Mac and AppleTV just started randomly disconnecting.

Oh god please don't get me started on Airplay bugs.

I honestly have some work to do this month.

"Hey, let's rewrite the framework again and not do any regression testing or test against old implementations or see what happens with any codec that is not exactly what we are expecting for any reason." - Airplay devs, every year.

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