____/ Peter Köhlmann on Monday 29 October 2007 09:35 : \____
> Roy Schestowitz wrote:
>
>> ____/ Gene Jones on Monday 29 October 2007 06:05 : \____
>>
>>> Peter K�ann <peter.koehlmann@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>>
>>>> http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?threadID=1195031&tstart=0
>>>>
>>>> So much for the "superior" quality of apple software
>>>>
>>>> They are every bit as incompetent as their Redmond counterparts
>>>
>>> sorry peter, it had nothing to do with apple.
>>>
>>> the company Unsanity has now apologized:
>>>
>>> http://unsanity.org/
>>
>> You're actually right on this one, but it's a shame that Apple did not
>> test the build sufficiently in order to identify the conflict and resolve
>> it.
>>
>
> It is a shame also that apparently they changed significant amounts of code
> without providing the changes to 3rd-party developers to let them
> test/change their products.
> In either case, apple is responsible. They should make sure that
> their "upgrade" does not cripple the machine just because a widely used
> 3rd-party "enhancer" is installed.
> The "upgrade" should check for it and disable it or at least give a clearly
> worded (it's apple users, after all) warning
I think there was an open test version (several even, distributed via Torrent).
How come nobody spotted this conflict before the release?
One might suggest that APIs/hooks were not sufficiently robust (well-designed)
in Tiger if a third-party application was able to cause some chaos without
simply being separated from the system, which should be modular and
self-correcting. It still doesn't give a decent excuse for those that 'hack'
around hooks (if it all). This might explain why Apple gave developers the
boot as far as iPhone is concerned. The phone was designed very poorly (it's
hard to see this because it's closed-source) if it runs as root _all the
time_. Apple was able to hide this fact for _months_, but the bonnet wasn't
think enough.
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