If anyone at Apple is reading this: Please fix the basic functionality before introducing new version that will break even more basic functionality. The current state of affairs is horrible.
The fact that people think that slowing down release cadence would make MacOS somehow more stable seems to be missing the core fact that "changing 100 things at once" _is the problem_!
They give this stuff out for free, and I know there's marketing associated to OS releases, but stuff would be a lot more stable if they just shipped stuff over the year instead of deciding to break everyone's computer consistently once a year.
Have people on a rolling-release beta track or something, at least.
I've found myself disabling auto updates on quite a few applications as of late, because I am tired of constant interruptions to my workflow, breakages and UI changes.
Being able to at least concentrate those inevitable annoyances and interruptions into one point in time is a good thing for me. The alternative has turned out to be death by a thousand papercuts.
I agree we're well overdue for another one. I was really expecting a "macOS Avalon" in 2020, but that of course didn't happen.
I would be really curious to see the source for this.
You can workaround the issue with a Displaylink dock though. I've been using the Dell D6000 dock to run two displays on my M1 Macbook Pro since launch. It's definitely not a perfect solution (with buggy wake-from-sleep quite often) but it's a good compromise until there's native support.
People were claiming (without any proof) that I simply stumble on malfunctioning hardware ... The hardware is still ok till this very day according to all tests and all problems were and are software related. I have discovered that many of them are well known too.
So, no dears, it's not hardware. I've just seen better quality before. I should repeat: This is the buggiest machine I ever had and I am going to repeat it untill it is fixed. But looks like they have something more important to do then care about quality and customers. For instance downvoting what real people experience. Downvote reality as mush as you wish. Good luck with that.
First, I am not aware of any operating systems that are developed using agile methods, and second the empirical evidence is in that agile improves quality, so it would be better if they were.
https://www.amazon.com/Accelerate-Software-Performing-Techno...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/No_true_Scotsman
2. And no, my position has nothing whatsoever to do with the "no true scotsman". I am not saying that they couldn't possibly be using agile because they have bad quality. I am saying that I am not aware of any of them using agile, and I was closely associated with at least one of them for a while.
And I also separately cite the evidence that has now been produced that agile improves quality, and conclude that if there are quality problems as you claim, a more agile approach would likely help, at least according to the empirical evidence.
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What organisations need more than anything is open minded individuals that are not slaves to established dogma. The Agile manifesto actually says that all methods should be constantly re-evaluated to see if they fit the particular organisation/team. Your empirical "evidence" likely comes with a lot of context and is unlikely to be applicable to all organisations and/or domains.
> Is there any operating system left now that isn't riddled with bugs? I blame Agile.
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I think not.
If anything, that deserved even more patronizing replies.
Of course not, I am however attempting to explain in detail why such sacrilegious "blame Agile" comments might be made.
> If anything, that deserved even more patronizing replies.
I am highly suspicious of anyone who is so certain of their position, we should all be riven by doubt!
May be we have different standards for quality?
" One of them : My machine just didn't even boot after update ... It didn't boot without 'another' mac. What genius decided that to revive my machine I should have another machine? But even during this process it barely worked after ~10 tries because ... well bugs even there. With all my huge experience I couldn't figure out the scenario that was working for sure ... just pure luck. This is horrible experience I think. "
But honestly back then I was giving concrete examples and was heavily downvoted for the facts. In my opinion Apple people do it on purpose here. Back then easily reproducable bug was with setting internal mic for screen video recording as audio input source. Then you get delay 2 seconds with each screen shot even when you do not record video. I don't know if it's fixed now. Another one was related to 'do not disturb' mode untill you put moon icon near the clock. Few bugs in disk utility. Bug in textedit . It simply stuck with certain font size. Honesly I've stopped counting. Why should I make tests for them? The do not pay me for that. Let them enjoy it especially since they downvote reporting about it as you can see here again. Good luck with that.
For me there is no sense anymore to discuss each and every problem specifically when I sense tendency. I wouldn't make noise about few unfixed bugs but it's scary to see the tendency toward poor quality when your workflow and your sw project depends on MacOS.
How I suppose to make perfect file manager if underlying OS is not functioning properly?
After reboot the tbolt display functions until the next hot unplug. Rinse, repeat.
All first party gear.