As I said, the iOS bug was almost certainly already being exploited. Delaying the release of a fix for that seems like the absolute last thing anyone should be suggesting they do.
There is no justification for this bug. It never should have shipped. It never should have gone unnoticed for so long. It never should have been announced prior to a patch being available.
No matter how you slice it, Apple failed miserably, and "iOS was probably being exploited" is not an excuse. Apple has how much money? How much money do you think it costs to put their entire Core OS engineering staff on SHIPPING AN UPDATE FOR BOTH OPERATING SYSTEMS?
They could have afforded it. They were simply too incompetent, after a chain of incompetence, to do so.
In arguing that they should add more people in order to ship faster, the only incompetence on display is your own. That's not how software development works, which you should know if you've done it professionally.
Huh? It's a one line change. The patch has to be validated across the entire testing matrix of their entire product line. That is a trivially parallelizable problem.
Don't cargo cult 'common wisdom'; the only incompetence on display here is your axiomation of things you don't understand.
If you'd meant QA, you would have said QA, not engineering. You don't want engineers doing QA, which you would also know if you actually worked in the industry. They're notoriously bad at it. You'd also know that a test cycle takes a certain amount of time, and for something as complex as OS X, that amount is going to be measured in days per configuration, and there's nothing you can do about that -- adding more people will, again, just slow it down. Admit you don't know what you're talking about and move on. Or just stop talking, whatever.
Please have the bridge delivered to my home between noon and six.
(Though, really, I should just accept this absurd statement, since it amounts to you admitting your own incompetence.)
> Stop trying to acquire internet points by being a jerk.
This from the guy who decided his scintillating contribution to the thread would be redundantly accusing people of "apologism" and "incompetence". You do understand the people who actually do work at Apple are human beings, and that you are flinging insults at them, right?
