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MatthiasP | 5 years ago

There is a good chance that macOS is being neglected precisely because Apple is moving away from x86.

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bredren|5 years ago

Fwiw, Apple had been building OS X on x86 for five years prior to announce of the last shift.

https://youtu.be/ghdTqnYnFyg

Not sure how this impacts theory of neglect.

Is it correct that the best folks from any given team at Apple are assigned to new, big initiatives?

michelb|5 years ago

Unlikely. I think they are just spread very thin, internal communications between groups is still broken, the dev process is/was broken (but is supposedly being fixed), and departments probably still don't cooperate. Priorities lie with features that sell the eco-system, not fixing bugs.

sukilot|5 years ago

And because they hoard profit instead of hiring more QA staff.

_ph_|5 years ago

It is quite plausible, that the quality problems of Catalina and iOS13 at the launch were a consequence of shifting the development team around to also support the development of MacOS on ARM.

andrekandre|5 years ago

its possible, but im not convinced

1. mac os has been buggy for quite a few releases already

2. outside of drivers and apps, ios and macos are basically the same kernel and userspace/libraries, so there isnt much to port

epsylon|5 years ago

"at the launch"

mac os at large has a quality problem. I have gotten more kernel panics on my personal and work laptops in the last 6 months than I have on my windows machines in the past 5 years.

amatecha|5 years ago

I don't quite agree -- I think iOS has been decreasing in quality as well. Apple in general is producing software of lesser quality than it has in the past, in my opinion. Very disappointing as I used to be a huge fan of their products :\