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Whats up with Apple's QA lately, update issues, the other issue with third party apps not working, I was really looking forward to try out the new safari (with all the promised battery life improvements). sigh

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When does "lately" start? 2010?

Around 2014. I’m (quite intentionally) running OS X Mavericks, and it’s very solid.

I suspect the problems stem from Apple combining their iOS and Mac divisions.

I read somewhere that the iOS division has a culture of secrecy from the beginning, and this now permeates the whole software org, meaning that teams are more siloed, and crucial coordination and integration doesn't happen until far too close to release.

It's a good point. Apple always had terrible QA. It just wasn't as bad as all the other vendors. The other vendors have possibly surpassed them now so it's more obvious.

QA doesn't really help with online services having scaling issues

To expand on king_magic’s point, this isn’t a case of a small service having a sudden spike in traffic, it’s a core service used by all devices manufactured by one the worlds largest tech companies. If they don’t test for massive scale it would shocking.

It’s absolutely a QA issue.

Sure it does. Scaling can absolutely be tested in a robust way, it just requires a shitload of engineering resources to do. Apple absolutely has the financial means to test things properly, they just... seem to not care.

Dream bigger.

Other major cloud vendor also had outage this year.

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