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I could have sworn just a few months ago I read something on HN that the best way to get Apple to acutally fix a bug was to:

1. Submit to radar 2. Submit to open radar 3. Try to convince a developer evangelist on the inside your bug is worth attention 4. Go pimp your bug on social media

I thought it was all unnecessary legwork to get the attention of a company that should be more proactive, but the comments seemed to agree that it was the way to do things. Now that someone actually is doing just that the tide of opinion seems to have turned.

I've shipped plenty of embarrassing bugs in my days! And, had I shipped a bug that likely has to do with escaping characters improperly, I too would have been embarrassed by it. But beyond that, as someone who spent many years dealing with integration testing of Mac OS X, this is the type of bug that would make me cringe that our infrastructure was not setup to catch it.

All bugs are embarrassing. What one can only do is to argue whether it's a bug or a feature.

> Just report and it surely will get fixed.

You are either 100% unfamiliar with Apple or being profoundly ironic.