Going around making the world better doesnt rank, isnt visible work, isnt tracked or roadmaps, isnt rewarded, and frankly, it's not as fun being a 0.1X hacker tackling the gross ugly old shit, especially when the org wont say thank you either.
I understand the relentless need to innovate, do cool stuff, etc., but somewhere along the way a line was crossed.
A good time to throw in the term exnovation.. there's a reason you rarely hear it, but there's a reason somebody came up with it.
That's not the right idea. Mac OS X 10.3 through 10.7 all took well over a year of development. Yearly major releases is too fast. https://robservatory.com/a-full-history-of-macos-os-x-releas...
> I would surmise that their OS reliability and stability issues have more to do with the switch from Objective-C to Swift than anything else.
There's no evidence of this. Apple itself was one of the slowest adopters of Swift, because it needed ABI stability to put Swift in the OS. https://blog.timac.org/2022/1005-state-of-swift-and-swiftui-...