Comments on: iTunes 9.0.1, iPhoneOS 3.1 and Mac OS X 10.6.1

By: Felix

Felix — Wed, 14 Oct 2009 07:48:55 +0000

I’m now looking forward to your release 1.2 as I have noticed the lack of mention of Android. I hope this will be covered in the forthcoming release.

By: noexpert

noexpert — Mon, 05 Oct 2009 21:30:37 +0000

Still perpetuating the myth that only 30 million Apple users is not worth going after from a criminal point of view, with virus and malware attacks.

By: muck

muck — Mon, 05 Oct 2009 12:48:49 +0000

Well I’m not sure what point you’re trying to make either. Are you saying point releases are good because they have new features or bad because they are just bug releases. Microsoft gave up point releases after 3.11 but they do effective point releases which are called operating systems and service packs. It would be awkward to have Microsoft Windows 3.4.3, Instead it is Vista Service pack 3. It makes it a bit clearer to the public I believe.

By: David Wright

David Wright — Mon, 05 Oct 2009 11:11:41 +0000

@Maddog: Care to elaborate? We have a fleet of iPhones and a couple of iPod Touches with 3.1 and haven’t encountered any problems yet…

By: Maddog UK

Maddog UK — Mon, 05 Oct 2009 10:38:51 +0000

iPhone OS 3.1 has done more to damage the brand than the idiots trying to take pictures from them at gigs!

By: Kevin

Kevin — Mon, 05 Oct 2009 08:48:19 +0000

Not forgetting that 90% of the core Mac OS X is now natively 64-bit. Which was another reason for the point release, plus a new version of Quicktime, which now let’s you save and edit, etc, etc.

By: David W

David W — Mon, 05 Oct 2009 04:54:57 +0000

10.6.1 is a point-point release. These are always bug fixes and historically have never brought new features, so it is surprising you were surprised at no change.

As to bug fixes on/shortly after release, what about Windows or Linux? I used SUSE for many years, with each release, by the time it was installed on the day of release, there were updates ready, which had been fixed between RTM and the ISOs being ready for download. Windows XP and Vista were similar, they had patches waiting.

Releasing software is a trade off between bugs, budget and timing. To be honest, I didn’t find any problems with 10.6.

I guess what 10.6.1 shows us is that Apple, like Microsoft and the OSS projects and pretty much the whole industry don’t sit on their laurels, once the product has been released to manufacturing.

If you had pointed out the 6 months it took them to release the last major Java security patch, after they had been given it by Sun, you would have been onto something, but pointing out a bug fix release only contains bug fixes and no new features is a little desperate… :-S

iTunes, well, the major updates were in the App management category, the same for the iPhone OS update, its big enhancement was the app management feature, in combination with iTunes.

To be honest, it was a great update, just for that feature.

By: Bob Almond

Bob Almond — Sun, 04 Oct 2009 12:58:56 +0000

This post makes no sense. On the one hand it says of Apple that the point releases are basically just bug fixes. And then praises Apple for software that is constantly evolving. And contrasts this with Microsoft, where there are no ‘point releases’ every other month – only bug fixes every month. Be honest – both companies are doing exactly the same thing, just using different names.

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