Absolutely! I spent 40 years as a software engineer, mostly working in OS kernels. A "simple" bug can take quite a bit of time and effort, especially if you are down in the low level code (and double difficult if you are in ring 0). All of the replies above about time and effort and priorities are right on the mark. Some bugs seem simple, but, as people mention above, changing even one line of code can cause a real mess. Not only do you have to test fixes, they still have to go through Quality Assurance or System Test or whatever the company calls their version.
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Serious question: Why doesn't Apple eliminate simple bugs quickly?
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Absolutely! I spent 40 years as a software engineer, mostly working in OS kernels. A "simple" bug can take quite a bit of time and effort, especially if you are down in the low level code (and double difficult if you are in ring 0). All of the replies above about time and effort and priorities are right on the mark. Some bugs seem simple, but, as people mention above, changing even one line of code can cause a real mess. Not only do you have to test fixes, they still have to go through Quality Assurance or System Test or whatever the company calls their version.
The OP has also not been back to his thread once. I guess he doesn't want to see everyone disagreeing with him.
can you post a screenshot of your notification centre while on Reachability and 3D touch the x button to make the Clear All Notifications option show up? Because mine also shows up in the wrong place, up there.
If I remember to take a screenshot next time I get a notification sure. I don't keep Notification Center notifications on for much.
Thank you to those who provided thoughtful answers! It seems like the gist of what most of you are saying is that bugs that seem like a "simple" flaw from a user's perspective can be very complex on the development side. This is more or less what I expected to hear when starting this thread; I have been more interested in verifying that I was thinking along the right lines while hearing some detail from experts since I am far from one.
My delayed response is mostly due to a hectic past couple of weeks. To the few who decided to include laughing at or mocking me, I know my question came from a place of ignorance – otherwise I wouldn't be asking it. But that kind of response isn't conducive to an environment where people want to ask questions and learn, which should be the point of an online forum.
Also, here's the weird Notification Center thing some of you were asking about.
(You can see the white blurs at the bottom – those are the notifications that were at the top before engaging Reachability.)
My delayed response is mostly due to a hectic past couple of weeks. To the few who decided to include laughing at or mocking me, I know my question came from a place of ignorance – otherwise I wouldn't be asking it. But that kind of response isn't conducive to an environment where people want to ask questions and learn, which should be the point of an online forum.
Also, here's the weird Notification Center thing some of you were asking about.
(You can see the white blurs at the bottom – those are the notifications that were at the top before engaging Reachability.)
This is so not the case at all and is just nostalgia talking. It's human nature to look back on the past with rose tinted glasses. I can't find it now but somewhere buried in these forums some poor soul actually went back and documented all the big bugs in OS X back to year dot for a similar discussion. Old versions had as many problems as the new.