Posts Tagged “Apple Software Quality”

Snow Leopard at 15 (10)September 4, 2024
WWDC 2024 Wish Lists (19)June 6, 2024
2023 Six Colors Apple Report Card (17)February 22, 2024
2023 Apple Vision Accessibility Report Card (1)February 22, 2024
The Myth and Reality of Mac OS X Snow Leopard (11)November 16, 2023
Computers Are Magical; Computers Are Awful (11)November 14, 2023
Feedback Through an Intermediary (2)June 9, 2023
WWDC 2023 Wish Lists (8)June 1, 2023
2023 Six Colors Apple in the Enterprise Report Card (2)April 11, 2023
2022 Six Colors Apple Report Card (17)February 9, 2023
Ventura Issues (56)December 27, 2022
WWDC 2022 Wish Lists (21)June 3, 2022
Problems With Promotion-Oriented Cultures (4)May 11, 2022
2022 Six Colors Apple in the Enterprise Report Card (1)April 6, 2022
Five Years to Mac Hardware Turnaround (5)April 6, 2022
2021 Six Colors Apple Report Card (5)February 7, 2022
Little Annoyances in macOS 12.0.1 (20)November 30, 2021
Apple Software Quality in 2021 (3)November 15, 2021
iOS 15 Shortcuts and SwiftUI (3)October 1, 2021
Chuq on the Apple Ecosystem (3)June 18, 2021
Remaining Issues in Big Sur (40)May 24, 2021
Switching Back to Mac (11)April 6, 2021
Why Reporting Bugs to Apple May Harm Software Quality (14)February 18, 2021
2020 Six Colors Apple Report Card (5)January 30, 2021
Evolution of the Programming Languages From iPhone OS 1.0 to iOS 14 (9)October 19, 2020
Quality Management in Apple’s System Updates Over Time (6)October 2, 2020
Priorities (18)October 1, 2020
The Need for Stable Foundations in Software Development (8)September 25, 2020
Why Public Betas? (4)September 23, 2020
macOS 10.15.6 Bug Causes Crashes With Virtualization (2)July 28, 2020
macOS 10.15.5 (12)May 27, 2020
macOS 10.15: Slow by Design (16)May 22, 2020
The Pace of macOS Updates March 16, 2020
What You See in the Finder Should Always Be Correct (10)February 26, 2020
2019 Six Colors Apple Report Card (4)January 31, 2020
Behind the Scenes on Apple’s Aperture Team (8)January 30, 2020
The Falling Ladder of Abstractions (3)January 2, 2020
Tim Cook’s Apple (13)December 17, 2019
Full Steam Ahead, But With Feature Flags (21)November 21, 2019
iOS 13.2 Killing Background Apps More (13)October 30, 2019
Catalina Vista (15)October 16, 2019
Catalina App Issues (4)October 15, 2019
Podcasts in Catalina (27)October 13, 2019
Mail Data Loss in macOS 10.15 (629)October 11, 2019
Silent Failure (5)October 10, 2019
Mail in iOS 13 (1)September 26, 2019
iOS 13 and 13.1 (6)September 25, 2019
iCloud Drive Features Removed/Postponed (1)September 3, 2019
iOS 13.1 Developer Beta 1 Is Already Out (4)August 28, 2019
App Store Competition (12)May 30, 2019
Core Animation Bug in macOS 10.14.4 April 15, 2019
The Sad State of Logging Bugs for Apple (10)March 11, 2019
Finder Bug Replacing a Folder With Dot Files (5)March 6, 2019
Keyboard Shortcuts Killed by Bug (4)March 4, 2019
2018 Six Colors Apple Report Card (3)January 29, 2019
Darren Eastman Sues Apple (5)October 2, 2018
File Radars Early and Often (19)June 12, 2018
WWDC 2018 Links (10)June 4, 2018
Designing Jank-Free Apps March 16, 2018
Nowhere Else to Go (15)February 17, 2018
How Apple Plans to Root Out Bugs (17)February 13, 2018
Apple Delays Features to Focus on Reliability, Performance (11)January 30, 2018
2017 Six Colors Apple Report Card January 26, 2018
App Store System Preferences Can Be Unlocked With Any Password (1)January 11, 2018
Apple in 2018 (1)January 2, 2018
Broken Photos Drag and Drop (1)December 19, 2017
The Pollyannish Assumption (1)December 6, 2017
Month 13 Is Out of Bounds (12)December 6, 2017
Rushed iOS 11.2 Update to Fix Date Crasher (6)December 2, 2017
iBooks in iOS 11 and High Sierra (4)November 30, 2017
Why Little Bugs Need to Get Fixed (17)November 29, 2017
High Sierra Bug Allows Root Access With Blank Password (14)November 29, 2017
Enduring Xcode and SourceKitService Problems (6)November 9, 2017
KRACK: Breaking WPA2 by Forcing Nonce Reuse (14)October 16, 2017
Some Known Bugs in macOS 10.12.6 (6)July 21, 2017
Everything Is Broken (6)May 15, 2017
Apple Services (10)May 3, 2017
Sierra Logging Spew (34)March 13, 2017
Sierra Bluetooth Problems and the Logitech K811 Keyboard (19)March 8, 2017
Sierra Stuck Mouse Cursor Graphic Bug (4)March 7, 2017
It Just Works (7)January 31, 2017
Six Colors’ 2016 Apple Report Card (1)January 12, 2017
Apple’s 2016 in Review (2)January 3, 2017
Finding an Alternative to Mac OS X (9)January 3, 2017
More macOS Preview PDF Trouble (28)December 21, 2016
Farewell to the Apple Watch December 21, 2016
The Operating System Fountain of Youth (7)December 5, 2016
Understanding Apple’s Marginalization of the Mac (14)November 22, 2016
Sending a Text Message Instead of an iMessage (11)November 18, 2016
Hardware Is Sexy, But It’s Software That Matters (2)November 10, 2016
Still With the Mac, Unfashionably October 18, 2016
A Declining Trajectory (2)October 4, 2016
Automatic Download of macOS Sierra (3)October 3, 2016
Pro Music Perspective on Apple (1)September 28, 2016
macOS 10.12 Sierra Notes (9)September 21, 2016
Learning From Apple’s Failures (3)August 13, 2016
Swift Classes to Be Non Publicly Subclassable by Default (12)July 17, 2016
Pre-WWDC Thoughts (4)June 8, 2016
Lost Calendar Events, Change Notifications, and iCloud (7)May 10, 2016
Apple Music Deletes Personal Music Files (8)May 5, 2016
App Store Search Is Currently Broken (2)May 5, 2016
Photosmith Development Ends May 3, 2016
Apple’s Neglected OS (3)April 13, 2016
Gatekeeper Bug in Mac OS X 10.11.4 (5)March 31, 2016
Fantastical 2.2 for Mac (2)March 30, 2016
What to Do When the Mac App Store App Just Spins and Spins (2)March 30, 2016
Mac OS X 10.11.4 and iOS 9.3 March 24, 2016
How to Use the 10.9 SDK With Xcode 7.3 (4)March 23, 2016
Adventures in Troubleshooting AirDrop (2)March 23, 2016
Xcode Upgrades: Lessons Learned (4)March 22, 2016
Stale “Purchased From” in Apple’s Receipt E-mails (1)March 18, 2016
Game Center Is Still Broken After Six Months March 18, 2016
Notification Center Bugs March 17, 2016
Typos in Disk Utility (1)March 2, 2016
Apple Blacklists Its Own Ethernet Driver (9)February 28, 2016
Apple Music Problems (3)February 7, 2016
Mossberg Discovers the Functional High Ground (8)February 7, 2016
Six Colors’ Apple Report Card (6)January 8, 2016
Apple Mail Ignores Named Anchors (1)January 8, 2016
Phil Schiller Takes Over the App Stores (1)December 18, 2015
Low-Hanging Fruit (8)December 8, 2015
Done With iCloud Photo Library (5)November 30, 2015
No One Minding the Store (42)November 12, 2015
How Apple Is Giving Design a Bad Name (1)November 11, 2015
Mac OS X 10.10.4 and Apple TV (5)July 12, 2015
Mac OS X 10.10.4 Replaces discoveryd With mDNSResponder (3)May 27, 2015
iOS 9 and Mac OS X 10.11 Rumors (2)May 23, 2015
discoveryd Is Still Buggy (3)May 6, 2015
Snowsemite (12)February 10, 2015
Organ Banked (2)January 23, 2015
Why DNS in OS X 10.10 Is Broken (4)January 13, 2015
Apple’s Software Quality, Continued (42)January 6, 2015
Apple’s Software Quality Decline (38)October 11, 2014
Apple Doomed, According to News at 11 (4)February 4, 2013

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