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Re:Chrome is Not the Standard by foobarz on Thursday December 21, 2017 @03:51PM (#15982615)
Back in time, Microsoft invested heavily in program analysis to fix those hideous BSODs due to broken third-party drivers. It was very successful.

Apple's problem is simpler as they own the code, and bugs are likely to come from understaffed engineering.

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Re:Chrome is Not the Standard by connorelsea on Thursday December 21, 2017 @04:18PM (#15982848)
Apple's self-contained platform, huge sums of money, and massive upgrade adoption rates would make it very easy for them to ship modern software. They for some reason choose not to
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Re:Chrome is Not the Standard by threeseed on Thursday December 21, 2017 @06:05PM (#15983725)
iOS and OSX isn't modern software ?

I am curious about the qualities an operating system needs to be deemed "modern".

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Re:Chrome is Not the Standard by connorelsea on Thursday December 21, 2017 @06:20PM (#15983842)
I personally love iOS and macOS and use them both daily. Though there are facets of both that I think could easily be improved given Apple's position.

Off the top of my head -

A. Slow development cycles on Safari (they're getting better, but still) while simultaneously blocking competitors on iOS

B. A number of embarrassing security failures on macOS recently

C. A lack of focus on macOS (Probably the cause of B)

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