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Here’s another to add to the list: Ask your Apple Watch what the weather is. Crashes the watch and restarts it. Confirmed on my Watch S0 running latest version of iOS 11. Found out from https://forums.macrumors.com/threads/apple-watch-bug-causing....

If anyone from Apple is listening, please please please raise this up the flagpole on your teams. I love Apple, and think they’re doing fantastic work overall. I get that there are unique problems with having such massive scale, but iOS 11 has been a mess from the beginning.

Edit: It’s apparently “springboarding”, not restarting. Very similar experience either way.

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Apple's advantage has always been writing software to work on limited hardware that they control. They don't have unique problems with massive scale.

I’m not saying unique to Apple. I’m saying unique to companies operating at massive scale.

And also a relatively small product line, which should make quality control easier. Although the product line has grown a bit lately.

I find it interesting to note how the quality of some Apple and Google software products is declining lately. Google Hangouts is a total buggy mess. And Gmail is worse than it was some years ago. It seems that big organizations inevitably get more disordered as they grow and age.

I wonder if this can be avoided or mitigated.

Hasn’t Apple lost many of their top engineers recently? That could definitely contribute.

My feeling is that since Steve went, the engineers have nobody to be absolutely shit-scared of and the quality of software has gone down ever since.

On a related note with the watch, try making a call using the watch as a speakerphone.

I know a lot of people hate this feature, but i use it all the time while driving. It will literally, every time, connect the call then go to "call failed" after 5~ seconds. This is completely reproducible on my parents and roommates S0's even after a pair/unpair(which is to my understanding the closest you can get to a "restore")

I've also gotten this to completely lock up the watch at the 'call failed' screen a few times, too

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