Apple is Postponing Release of New Features To iOS This Year To Focus on Reliability and Performance: Report (axios.com)

Posted by msmash on Tuesday January 30, 2018 @02:00AM from the priorities dept.

For a change, Apple plans to not push new features to iOS devices this year so that it could focus on reliability and quality of the software instead, Axios reported on Tuesday. From the report: Apple has been criticized of late, both for security issues and for a number of quality issues, as well as for how it handles battery issues on older devices. Software head Craig Federighi announced the revised plan to employees at a meeting earlier this month, shortly before he and some top lieutenants headed to a company offsite. Pushed into 2019 are a number of features including a refresh of the home screen and in-car user interfaces, improvements to core apps like mail and updates to the picture-taking, photo editing and sharing experiences.

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Apple will still not get my money by bogaboga · 2018-01-30 02:28 · Score: 3, Interesting

I do not begrudge Apple, but I have never been impressed by their products, mostly because of refusal by Apple to inter-operate with other devices. Am I alone?
Wrong place to focus... by QuietLagoon · 2018-01-30 02:28 · Score: 1, Interesting

Software bugs (security, reliability or otherwise) are symptoms of a failed software development process. Pausing a flawed software development process to fix the bugs that the flawed development process has created is not a solution, it is a Band-Aid®.
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Apple needs to fix its software development process.