If you can’t stand by a feature, you shouldn’t launch it
Good post by Marcin Wichary at Unsung, riffing on a segment of The Talk Show.
This is one of the most baffling things about Apple software to me. For each application, or piece of an application, or component of their operating systems, why don’t they find one of their 150,000 employees who actually uses that piece of software every day, and give them ownership of it.
About a quarter of the stuff I do in my day job is implementing fixes and tweaks that I or one of my developer colleagues have found. Not stuff that our customers have reported. And that is because we own our output and are embarrassed by bugs of all sizes.
Software quality driven by pride. What’s wrong with that?