It is impossible to deliver complex s/w that has no bugs, it is impossible to prove there are no bugs in complex s/w. they have to update the s/w to adapt to new h/w and to add functionality to stay in the marketplace. You fundamentally do not understand s/w development.
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It is impossible to deliver complex s/w that has no bugs, it is impossible to prove there are no bugs in complex s/w. they have to update the s/w to adapt to new h/w and to add functionality to stay in the marketplace. You fundamentally do not understand s/w development.
But as a cab user I want an up to date vehicle using modern materials and design so that it is safer, more fuel efficient and cheaper to run than something "decades old". The Yellow Cab mentality only works in a highly-regulated environment (ie your Cab must be Yellow and to a single design with no competition). In comparison all smartphones would equally need to be the same...so we would have no product innovation or development....yuck! Sounds like North Korea.
No-one's software has EVER got rid of all the bugs. Ever. At. All.
And they don't spend the additional time/effort/cost involved because....users want new features AND low price. Within those requirements you cannot produce Space Shuttle software. (Google it, the flight control software used in the Shuttle cost NASA approx 20x the commercial standard software cost per line...)
In over 40 years, I worked on s/w for fighters, bombers, missiles, rockets, satellites, subsea systems, command and control systems, and commercial aircraft and despite the most rigorous testing possible we still got bug reports many years after deployment. Lots and lots of them. Many were never fixed and never will be because the cost and risk outweighed the benefits.
This thread has devolved into the inane and should be closed.
Yes, sure...despite having a 100000 free beta testers sending data and all the in house testing they managed to put out this crapware. If that is the best Apple can do these days then they are finished. The iPhone 7 was WAS my favorite phone until I installed that virus iOS 11 on it. Now it operates like cheap junk!
Despite what some may say, this was intentionally down by Apple. They really don't care about individual customers but ONLY the bottom line. They know that for every one of us who leaves out of disgust there are enough who will simply grab their ankles and take it PLUS pay MORE for it! They will still make the only thing they care about which is MONEY.
If the overall lag and battery performance issues are not resolved with the next update I am going to sell this and move on. Life is too short to let a corporation that doesn't care about you give you grief while you hope and wait to see if they will fix what they deliberately broke.
Despite what some may say, this was intentionally down by Apple. They really don't care about individual customers but ONLY the bottom line. They know that for every one of us who leaves out of disgust there are enough who will simply grab their ankles and take it PLUS pay MORE for it! They will still make the only thing they care about which is MONEY.
If the overall lag and battery performance issues are not resolved with the next update I am going to sell this and move on. Life is too short to let a corporation that doesn't care about you give you grief while you hope and wait to see if they will fix what they deliberately broke.
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