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- Auzy, on 11/18/2008, -1/+5This was a very good idea.
My impression of Apple's official bug reporting system is that , it appears to be run by many people who are quite clueless. And Apple gets away with it because nobody can talk about their responses (or if they have received one).
And we are talking some pretty major bugs, ones which are easily repeatable, that I've seen cost companies thousands in lost profits. I personally have lost all faith in Radar after posting 20 suggestions/bugs or more!
Thank god for this! Maybe if the entire world knows these bugs, Apple may actually get a decent QA department. Also, then Linux and Microsoft can benefit off the suggestions too, making things better for everyone - mwunsch, on 11/18/2008, -0/+2notice: contrary to what the pic for this article might suggest, spraying you new iphone with raid does not fix any of the software bugs
- inactive, on 11/18/2008, -0/+1I don't get it, nearly everything that has ever been written has bugs. And it's not like Apple is famous for them.
- bigbangbuddha, on 11/18/2008, -0/+1Yes, Apple has bugs, all software does, jokes over! But the difference between Apple and other OS vendors is that they don't wait 3-4 years between major releases, instead they ship a full version every 12-16 months and they do minor releases on a regular basis (5 so far this year). In software development this is critical, each release generates issues as well and getting them out there faster is extremely important. But what Apple is doing here is putting them on par more with how linux operates than Microsoft, linux is 100% community driven and we see releases for distros like Ubuntu every 6-8 months which in my opion is much better. Personally I would rather have MS and Apple use that methodology and both get a lot more agile about development. This is at least a step in the right direction, we should all be more involved with the software we use instead of blindly sitting back and letting others decide what needs to be fixed and what we want.
- philodygmn, on 11/18/2008, -0/+1I knew someone who worked there for a while, and trust me, the engineers have their plates so full at Apple it's heartbreaking. Part of creating great products is hiring top-tier talent -- talent which is depressingly rare, leaving a ridiculously tiny cadre of people to do staggeringly huge amounts of work. Compounding this is the fact even if you hired more people or open-sourced something, the bottleneck of human communication feeding into individuals with the expertise to implement it elegantly remains at least as irreducible.
So the gulf between the A-team run like lab rats to feed the Steve feature machine versus the non-alpha people who inheret projects and do bug fixes is pretty severe. It's really not Apple's fault per se, and I doubt open Radar will hurt, it's just that it's not as simple as people would like to treat it, is what's been my (indirect) experience. And it's not like project groups at any orginazition don't striate, like this, but...I just wanted to kind of defend Apple, a little, here. - Dinsdale77, on 11/18/2008, -1/+1Totally teets.
- virtualonliner, on 11/18/2008, -2/+2Apple software has bugs?
/s - wngreenway, on 11/18/2008, -4/+4Woah...wait! You mean OSX has bugs!?! I thought with all the anti-Vista propaganda they spread, Macs were perfect!!!
- benologist, on 11/18/2008, -1/+1So basically they're just duplicating Apple's official bug database so the community can discuss bugs amongst themselves. Without Apple's involvement it seems pretty pointless.
- Photar, on 11/17/2008, -4/+1I like the part with the bugs.
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