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| by Stephen Withers | |
| Wednesday, 30 January 2008 | |
  
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I imagine the problem is that if you say you've fixed - or "addressed," to adopt the usual terminology - a bug, then you're admitting it was there in the first place. If you fix a few dozen bugs that each affect a tiny minority of users, it's quite possible that someone will judge that disclosing what you've done will harm your image more than it helps. That seems to assume that customers have a rather immature view, but perhaps that comes from Apple's concentration on the consumer market and the litigious nature of its home market. Any halfway serious user knows that software ships with bugs, and that they get squashed over time. Perhaps Apple is worried that an element will go crying to the lawyers specialising in class actions complaining "they sold me a faulty product"? As for the other two updates in the batch, all we are told about Pages 3.0.2 and Numbers 1.0.2 is that each "addresses compatibility with Mac OS X." Right. So a pair of applications written by Apple specifically for Mac OS X had compatibility issues with the operating system. Presumably we're talking about compatibility with a specific version of Mac OS X. Humm... isn't 10.5.2 supposed to be appearing any time now? Maybe today's iWork update is in preparation for its arrival. |
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