This is just embarrassing. It's not like Apple is spread so thin because of poor sales or a corporate shake up. There's really no excuse for all of these core bugs.
The iPhone was so successful it ate the company. Everything else is an afterthought to "sell more phones." Security takes a back seat to animojis and better cameras.
The mobile market has plateaued, so this will harm the company long term. Success defines and then limits you.
This is just nonsense. I worked at Apple in the years after the iPhone launch and nothing changed. And companies are comprised of many teams and so they are more than capable of working on more than one thing at once.
Now as I've mentioned before the real blame can be attributed to the switch to Agile. There has been a noticeable increase in the frequency of OSX/iOS point releases since then. But also a subsequent decrease in quality.
Apple has realised this which is why there are focusing more on quality and we have seen already the results of this with the last OSX/iOS update where we've never had a X.6 point release for a while.
Thanks! That's interesting. I've always thought and always heard that Mac had ceased to be important to Apple and was almost EOLed due to the iPhone, but your take is also very plausible.
I have yet to see an Agile/Scrum organization that doesn't have runaway technical debt. The entire Agile/Scrum process discourages the "craft" aspects of development unless they are explicitly included in each sprint, and a very few managers do that because these aspects are hard to tie to a specific customer story.
iPhone security is great, but they had a really embarrassing issue in the backups around iOS 10 - where they were sha hashing the backup password and storing the result in the backup. (This was in addition to the password handling which was a properly designed PBKDF2, etc). I don’t think their security skills are very evenly distributed. Perhaps they are growing the dev team too quickly and the experienced devs are spread too thin.
iOS is probably a larger target, so it's pretty clear that the obvious choice is to put most of your security talent there. That being said, core OS fixes propagate to both systems due to their shared codebase.
