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Re:Ask HN: Why is iOS 11 such a mess? by dingaling on Tuesday November 07, 2017 @04:04PM (#15647631)
> I doubt that more than one or two developers built that

Indeed, and it no doubt passed all the unit tests and was marked as good to ship.

But I suspect what they were lacking was an aggressive, adversarial QA specialist with the mindset of "how would a user break this in daily use".

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Re:Ask HN: Why is iOS 11 such a mess? by altern8tif on Tuesday November 07, 2017 @10:56PM (#15649822)
That's really surprising considering that we've seen beta releases of iOS for quite a number of years now.

Isn't the point of a beta release to make sure that the OS is battle-tested with users who would use it like they do in real life?

Would have thought it might have covered most of the typical real-world use cases. Especially since it probably has one of the highest number of users/testers of any beta software programs.

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