> Although, surprisingly, built on top of absolutely incredible silicon.
To me that's because thats a capital E "Engineering" driven task that Product can't get their grubby little mitts on and ruin.
No, it’s because product is now 100% the h1b class deciding what to do. Indian take over is real
Minority in Apple R&D is mostly Asian, not Indian
Re:Our Commitment to Windows Quality
by Henchman21 on Saturday March 21, 2026 @12:39AM
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I don't particularly care what their ethnicity happens to be. Just write good, bug free code that does things people want. How they get to there from here? No f'ing idea -- but I know that first they have to have to want to and they _clearly_ do not.
Re:Our Commitment to Windows Quality
by andrekandre on Saturday March 21, 2026 @07:20AM
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> Just write good, bug free code that does things people want
Re:Our Commitment to Windows Quality
by alsetmusic on Saturday March 21, 2026 @01:11AM
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Pretty cool being racist. I noticed people from varying ethnic backgrounds seemed to land in particular divisions (maybe schools in those countries focused on these cores), but I wouldn't ascribe nationality to anything as broadly as you did.
It's a fair point. The Indian take over is more relevant in Microsoft.
It has posix shell, all is forgiven, can't complain about UI patterns that I never interact with.
Exactly.
Who could imagine Apple would eventually inherit Sun’s crown as the king of the RISC unix workstation?
No one, given how A/UX went down.
It was a mix of not buying Be, having a reverse acquisition with NeXT, Jobs taking over the reigns yet again, Sun doing a bunch of bad decisions.
Nowadays, following the spirit of old Apple, they only care the UNIX underpinnings as good enough, and that's about it.
Still, they managed to bring Unix to the masses. On a RISC platform even.
And their Unix is just fine.
UNIX had already won the server room by them with RISC.
Lets not pretend outside IIS with ASP, later ASP.NET, Active Directory, Sharepoint, SQL Server, SMB, there were any other deployment scenarios left for Windows.
I have to confess I've never seen a modern .NET stack deployment on anything other than Linux.
Re:Our Commitment to Windows Quality
by tonyedgecombe on Saturday March 21, 2026 @07:46AM
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Snow Leopard was riddled with bugs. Take a look at all the updates it had following its release to confirm that.
If that's true, consider what it means for modern macOS quality when people look back on SL fondly as the most stable release.
Re:Our Commitment to Windows Quality
by tonyedgecombe on Saturday March 21, 2026 @09:22AM
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I think it means they are wearing rose tinted glasses.
Exactly. SL was not as polished as people remember it to be. They’re just delusional with nostalgia.
Re:Our Commitment to Windows Quality
by tonyedgecombe on Saturday March 21, 2026 @01:22PM
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The noteworthy thing about Snow Leopard is that it was released at all. Apple had shifted all their effort onto getting the iPhone released and development on OS X pretty much stopped.
Re:Our Commitment to Windows Quality
by benjaminoakes on Saturday March 21, 2026 @10:11PM
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I thought they delayed Leopard, not Snow Leopard...
I have become ~comfortably numb~ delusionally nostalgic.
Was it? I remember it being a pretty solid experience.
Although, surprisingly, built on top of absolutely incredible silicon.